MIWAKO TSUNEMATSU

Last Updated :2025/08/07

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Professor

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2013/03/01, 2018/03/31, Hiroshima University, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Assistant Professor (Special Appointment)
  • 2018/04/01, 2019/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Lecturer
  • 2019/04/01, 2024/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Lecturer

Academic Degrees

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Health Science, Hiroshima University
  • Master of Health Science, Hiroshima University

Research Fields

  • Medicine,dentistry, and pharmacy;Boundary medicine;Medical sociology

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Integrated Clinical Practice
  2. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Clinicobiochemistry
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Epidemiology
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Health Policies
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Fundamentals Of Nursing Skill
  6. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Clinical Nursing Skills
  7. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Year, Graduate thesis
  8. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Clinical Practice in Fundamental Nursing Care I
  9. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Clinical Practice in Fundamental Nursing Care II
  10. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Research methodology in Nursing
  11. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Health statistics
  12. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Statistics for Health Sciences
  13. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Health Policies
  14. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Statistics for Health Sciences
  15. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
  16. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Advanced Research on Development of Nursing Science
  17. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Advanced Research on Development of Nursing Science
  18. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Special Lecture on The Analysis in Health Informatics
  19. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Lecture on Health Informatics
  20. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Seminar on Health Informatics
  21. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on Health Informatics
  22. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Year, Methodology of Education for Health Informatics
  23. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Year, Educational Practice on Health Informatics
  24. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Year, Integrated Educational Practice on Health Informatics
  25. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Advanced Lecture on Health Informatics
  26. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Advanced Seminar on Health Informatics
  27. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Advanced Seminar on Health Informatics

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Class-specific school closures for seasonal influenza: Optimizing timing and duration to prevent disease spread and minimize educational losses, PLOS ONE, 20(1), 20250123
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  2. Prevalence and influencing factors with knowledge, attitude, and practice toward anemia among school-going adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh, PLOS ONE, 19(11), 20241118
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  3. Dynamics of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in Taiwan: a mathematical modeling study, BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 24(1), 20241106
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  4. Decisions and Influential Factors Regarding Class-Specific School Closures Against Seasonal Influenza Outbreak, CUREUS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, 16(6), 20240614
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  5. Breast Cancer Screening and Perceptions of Harm among Young Adults in Japan: Results of a Cross-Sectional Online Survey, CURRENT ONCOLOGY, 30(2), 2073-2087, 202302
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  6. Models to predict prognosis in older patients with heart failure complicated by pre-frailty and frailty: a pilot prospective cohort study, HONG KONG MEDICAL JOURNAL, 28(5), 356-366, 202210
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  7. Feasibility and acceptability of telepathology system among the rural communities of Bangladesh: A pilot study, JOURNAL OF FAMILY MEDICINE AND PRIMARY CARE, 11(6), 2613-2619, 202206
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  8. Factors Affecting the Cervical Cancer Screening Behaviors of Japanese Women in Their 20s and 30s Using a Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study, CURRENT ONCOLOGY, 29(9), 6287-6302, 202209
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  9. Models to predict prognosis in older patients with heart failure complicated by pre-frailty and frailty: a pilot prospective cohort study, Hong Kong Med J, 28, 2022
  10. Physical Functions and Comorbidity Affecting Collapse at 4 or More Weeks after Admission in Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures: A Prospective Cohort Study, ASIAN SPINE JOURNAL, 16(3), 419-431, 202206
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  11. A New Health Promotion Program That Includes Wadaiko Rhythm Exercise to Maintain the Health of Persons Excluded from Receiving Specific Health Guidance, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 19(14), 202207
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  12. Factors Affecting Quality of Life at Discharge among Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures, SOUTHERN MEDICAL JOURNAL, 114(4), 252-259, 20210401
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  13. Physical Functions and Comorbidity Affecting Collapse at 4 or More Weeks after Admission in Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures: A Prospective Cohort Study, Asian Spine J, 20210501
  14. Health Literacy and Health Behavior: Associated Factors in Surabaya High School Students, Indonesia, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 18(15), 20210801
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  15. Quantifying the Effects of Medical Examination and Possible Risk Factors against the Incidence of Cervical Cancer in a Low Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Coverage: An Ecological Study in Japan, CANCERS, 13(19), 202110
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  16. Factors of Having Difficulties Raising 3-Year-Old Children in Japan: Usefulness of Maternal and Child Health Information Accumulated by the Local Government, CHILDREN-BASEL, 8(12), 202112
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  17. Health Literacy, Health Behaviors, and Body Mass Index Impacts on Quality of Life: Cross-Sectional Study of University Students in Surabaya, Indonesia, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 18(24), 202112
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  18. Factors affecting hospital readmission heart failure patients in Japan: a multicenter retrospective cohort study, HEART AND VESSELS, 35(3), 367-375, 202003
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  19. Predicting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Bali, Indonesia, CLINICAL MEDICINE INSIGHTS-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND DIABETES, 13, 202004
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  20. Interactive effect of cognitive function and intervention on the walking independence of stroke patients: a retrospective cohort study, JOURNAL OF EXERCISE REHABILITATION, 16(3), 242-248, 202006
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  21. Analysis of the Training Effect of a Nursing Undergraduate Course on the Management of Radiation-Related Health Concerns-A Single Group Experiment, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 17(20), 202010
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  22. Warm Front Passage on the Previous Day Increased Ischemic Stroke Events, JOURNAL OF STROKE & CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES, 28(7), 1873-1878, 201907
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  23. CISTEM Education with Robotic Platform: For Human-Human Synchrony and Human-Machine Synchrony, JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS, 29(6), 969-979, 201712
  24. Various meteorological conditions exhibit both immediate and delayed influences on the risk of stroke events: The HEWS-stroke study, PLOS ONE, 12(5), 20170602
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  25. An Analysis of Mass Screening Strategies Using a Mathematical Model: Comparison of Breast Cancer Screening in Japan and the United States, JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 25(2), 162-171, 201502
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  26. Effects of Meteorological Conditions on the Risk of Ischemic Stroke Events in Patients Treated with Alteplase-HEWS-tPA, JOURNAL OF STROKE & CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES, 24(7), 1500-1505, 201507
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  27. Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening Based on a Mathematical Screening Model using data from the Hiroshima Prefecture Cancer Registry, ASIAN PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION, 14(8), 4897-4902, 2013
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  28. Factors Affecting Breast Cancer Screening Behavior in Japan - Assessment using the Health Belief Model and Conjoint Analysis, ASIAN PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION, 14(10), 6041-6048, 2013
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  29. Risk-prediction model for acute myocardial infarction using atmospheric pressure data, Journal of Health Sciences. Hiroshima University, 11(2), 261-268, 2013
  30. Effects of a Physical Function, and Oral Function Improvement Program for Community - dwelling Frail Elderly Subjects, Jpn J Health Fit Nutr, 22, 36-44, 2017

Publications such as books

  1. 2017/11, Handbook of Statistics 37, Mathematical modelling of mass screening and parameter estimation, Scholarly Book, Joint work

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Evaluation of the net benefit of breast cancer mass-screening: An analysis of benefit and harm using a mathematical model of age specific population dynamics, Tsunematsu M, Kakehashi M, Society for Medical Decision Making 1nd Biennial Asia-Pacific Conference, 2013/01, Without Invitation, English, Singapore
  2. Mass screening and vaccination strategies: Case of cervical cancer in Japan, Tsunematsu M, Kakehashi M, Society for Medical Decision Making 2nd Biennial Asia-Pacific Conference, 2016/01, Without Invitation, English, Hong-Kong
  3. Systematic CISTEM Education with Robotic Platform for Human-Human Synchrony and Human-Machine Synchrony, Nakada K, Tsunematsu M, Kihara T, Hattor T, Tokiwa T, Fukuda H, The 10th Biomedical Engineering International Conference, 2017/08, Without Invitation, English
  4. The risk of stroke induced by meteorological conditions in different sex and age groups: Hiroshima Emergency and Weather Study (HEWS) stroke collaboration, Tsunematsu M, Hosomi N, Mukai M, Sueda Y, Kakehashi M, Matsumoto M, The 21st International Epidemiological Association World Congress of Epidemiology, 2017/08, Without Invitation, Japanese
  5. The effect of school closure against flu based on an individually based stochastic model, Kakehashi M, Kawano S, Tsunematsu M, Epidemics6 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics, 2017/11, Without Invitation, English, Barcelona, Spain
  6. Individually based stochastic model of influenza: an analysis of school closure, Kakehashi M, Kawano S, Tsunematsu M, 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology & the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology, 2018/07, Without Invitation, English, Sydney
  7. The Influence of the Absence of Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination in the Population under Mass Screening of Cervical Cancer, Kakehashi M, Tsunematsu M, Matsuyama R, Epidemics7 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics, 2019/12, Without Invitation, English, Charleston, USA
  8. Evaluation of Benefits and Harms of Cancer Screening: Quantitative approach to Attitude Survey, Tsunematsu M, Kawasaki H, Matsuyama R, Kakehashi M, Socity for Medical Decision Making, 2020/11, Without Invitation, English
  9. Effects of school class closure against seasonal influenza -An analysis on influenza epidemic based on student attendance records of four high schools-, Masumoto Y, Matsuyama R, Tsunematsu M, Kakehashi M, Epidemics8 - 8th International Conference 2021, 2021/12, Without Invitation, English
  10. Cancer screening of women: Motivative response to different recommendation message, Tsunematsu M, Kawasaki H, Cui Z, Cui Y, Kakehashi M, Secretariat of 26th East Asia Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS2023), 2023/03, Without Invitation, English
  11. The relationship between child maltreatment and the COVID-19 epidemic, Tagawa K, Kagiura F, Hyakuta Y, Tsunematsu M, Kakehashi M, Secretariat of 28th East Asia Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS2025), 2025/02, Without Invitation, English