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Atsushi Miyawaki, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Public Health at University of Tsukuba. Dr. Miyawaki's work is located at the intersection of health policy and equity, and focuses on quality of care, health care disparities, and physician performance and behavior. As a researcher in Japan―a front-runner in the aging societies―he also has a strong interest in health services research related to long-term care (e.g., insurance system and caregivers). Dr. Miyawaki's work appears in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Surgery, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Social Science & Medicine. His research has had broad media attention, including the ABC, NBC, FOX, Newsweek, US News, NHK, and others.
Alongside his academic work, he continues in clinical practice as a physician of general internal medicine and home health care.
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Associate Professor
Public Health Research Group, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
Areas of Interest: Quality of care; Health care disparities; Physician behavior; Long-term care
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REPRESENTATIVE WORK
1. Miyawaki, A., Noguchi, H., & Kobayashi, Y. (2017). Impact of medical subsidy disqualification on children’s healthcare utilization: A difference-in-differences analysis from Japan. Social Science & Medicine, 191, 89–98.
2. Miyawaki, A., Tanaka, H., Kobayashi, Y., & Kawachi, I. (2019). Informal caregiving and mortality―Who is protected and who is not? A prospective cohort study from Japan. Social Science & Medicine, 223, 24–30.
3. Gotanda, H.*, Miyawaki, A.*, Tabuchi, T., & Tsugawa, Y. (2021) Association between trust in government and practice of preventive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 36: 3471-3477. (*co-first authors)
4. Miyawaki A., Ikesu, R., Tokuda, Y., Goto, R., Kobayashi, Y., Sano, K., & Tsugawa, Y. (2022) Prevalence and Changes of Low-Value Care at Acute Care Hospitals: A Multi-Center Observational Study in Japan. BMJ Open. 12(9):e063171.
5. Miyawaki, A. (2022) Full-Time Work Rates of Physicians with Physician Spouses vs Non-Physician Spouses in Japan. JAMA Network Open. 5(11):e2242143.
6. Miyawaki, A., Jena, AB., Burke, LG., Figueroa, JF., & Tsugawa, Y. (2023) Association between emergency physicians’ age and early death after emergency department Visit. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Epub ahead of print.
7. Miyawaki, A., Jena, AB., Gross, N. & Tsugawa, Y. (2023) Comparison of hospital outcomes for Medicare patients treated by allopathic versus osteopathic hospitalists: An observational study. Annals of Internal Medicine. 176(6): 798-806.
8. Miyawaki, A.*, Jena AB., Rotenstein LS., & Tsugawa, Y. (2024) Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates by Physician and Patient Gender. Annals of Internal Medicine. 177(5):598-608.
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