WHO: Japan, San Marino top life-expectancy listFRANK JORDANS
Born into a late nineteenth century farming family in central Japan, Ichikawa was scarcely aware as a child that being female would someday limit her aspirations. A highly motivated child and young adult, she expected to earn her slice of the expanding pie of opportunities in Japan's ...
A top World Health Organization official described the hospital situation in Gaza as “catastrophic” on Monday, saying most are no longer functioning and what remains will likely be overwhelmed by thousands of births expected in the next month. The United Nations briefing came ...
Excess mortality is defined as, “The difference in the total number of deaths in a crisis compared to those expected under normal conditions”3. Excess mortality accounts for both the total number of deaths directly attributed to the virus and those resulting from the indirect impact, such as ...
HIV prevalence in Japan continues to increase among men who have sex with men (MSM). We built a mathematical model to describe the HIV epidemic, including acute infection and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and projected the model to 2050. We compared current testing and treatment policies, ...
In Japan many workers who work in large corporations have a guarantee of lifetime employment. During their employment, they will not be laid off during recessions(经济萧条) or when the tasks they perform are taken over by robots. To some observers, this is what they call capitalism at its ...
Dementia is an illness characterized by a deterioration in cognitive function beyond what might be expected from normal ageing. It affects memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language and judgement. Dementia results from a variety of diseases and injuries that af...
1Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Mishima, Japan; 2Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan; 3Department of Molecular Life Science, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara, Japan; 4...
Japan’s Riken Yamamoto, left, laureate of Pritzker Architecture Prize, speaks with his staff member near a scale model of a building at his office Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Yokohama near Tokyo. The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japan’s Riken Yamamoto, who earns the fi...
As expected, self-esteem (β = -0.54, p < 0.001) and social anxiety (β = 0.21, p < 0.001) were significant predictors of suicidal ideation (F = 42.02, p < 0.001, R2= 0.21). 3.3. Mediation analysis To examine whether hopelessness mediated the influence of self-esteem and social ...