Public Health Experience in the ‘Snow Country’ Niigata, Japan

Authors

  • Nizam Baharom

Abstract

In the cold winter month of January 2012, two post graduate students from the Department of Community Health, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM),  went on a two weeks field attachment with the Division of International Health (Public Health), Niigata University Graduate School of Medical & Dental Sciences (NU). This report is an account of our first hand learning experience about the public health system and culture in Niigata, Japan.

Famously known as the ‘Snow Country’, Niigata prefecture is approximately 350 kilometers north of Tokyo, in the middle of the west coast of Honshu island, facing the Sea of Japan. It borders on the east with Fukushima prefecture, which was badly affected by the great tsunami disaster in March 2011. Niigata has a population of two and a half million, of which 21.3% is above the age of 65.Niigata University is located in Niigata City, the capital of Niigata prefecture. 

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Published

01-09-2012

How to Cite

Baharom, N. (2012). Public Health Experience in the ‘Snow Country’ Niigata, Japan. International Journal of Public Health Research, 2(2), 184–191. Retrieved from https://spaj.ukm.my/ijphr/index.php/ijphr/article/view/143

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012): International Journal of Public Health Research

Section

Special Report

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