Name：Yuko Toyama

Name：Noriko Toyama

Name：Chikako Hokama

Our specialty is Community Health Nursing/ Island Community Health Nursing.
We aim to contribute human resources development to those who can work as leaders in the field.

Research topics

• Relationship between social capital and disaster preparedness in parents raising infants.
• Prevention of abuse by public health nurses supporting children and mothers in Japan.
• Factors influencing the choice of facility-based delivery in the ethnic minority villages of Lao PDR: a qualitative case study.
• Designing a scale to assess family nursing practice among public health nurses in Japan
• Qualitative study of breastfeeding support by public health nurses in Japan
• Assessment of the impact of village health volunteers working in pairs on the utilization of antenatal care in Xepon District

Master

• Association between dietary behavior, frequency of fast food restaurant use and obesity among workers in Okinawa
• Promotion of comfortable working place to improve worker’s mental health status by occupational health nurse

Doctor

• Relationship between social capital and disaster preparedness in parents raising infants
• Relationship between individual-level social capital including social trust, traditional local events and Moai, and mental health among middle-aged adults in Okinawa