National Institute of Public Health

Recent papers from National Institute of Public Health

1. Impact of the introduction of GeneXpert on pulmonary tuberculosis detection trends in Guinea: analysis of the WHO “TB Burden” database (2000–2024)2026
2. Municipal Progress in Community Building and Subsequent Individual Social Capital Among Older Adults in Japan: A Multilevel Longitudinal StudyJournal of Urban Health · 2026
3. Impact of caseload-threshold centralization of intensity-modulated radiotherapy on cancer care regions in Japan: a nationwide ecological geospatial studyJapanese Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2026
4. Social factors, lifestyle, environment, and cardiovascular health in Czech middle-aged populationEuropean Journal of Public Health · 2026
5. Geographic Absence of Home-Based Palliative Care in Japan: Do Outpatient Services Cover These Areas? A Nationwide Ecological StudyHome Health Care Management & Practice · 2026
6. HelD is a Global Transcription Factor Enhancing Gene Expression in Rapidly Growing MycobacteriaMicrobiological Research · 2026
7. Atrial fibrillation is associated with low occupational physical activity and long occupational sedentary time: A national multicenter hospital-based case-control studyJournal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 2026
8. Blood pressure and cardiovascular risk in adults with non-proteinuric chronic kidney disease without diabetesHypertension Research · 2026
9. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis presenting with refractory thrombocytopenia after severe burn injury: a case reportBurns Open · 2026
10. Identifying risk of prescription analgesic misuse in chronic pain: screening utility and clinical cut-offs of the Japanese PROMIS Rx Misuse 7a in a low-opioid prescribing environmentJournal of Patient-Reported Outcomes · 2026
11. Medical service utilization under heat stress at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan: A ６-month time series studyMass gathering medicine. · 2026
12. Availability and Quality of Long‐Term Care Services for Older Adults in Five Southeast Asian CountriesGeriatrics and gerontology international/Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2026
13. Interplay of Morphology and Polymer Composition Drives Estuarine Fate and Food Web Distribution of Nanoplastics: Evidence from a Multitrophic Mesocosm Using Upconversion Nanoparticle TracersEnvironmental Science & Technology · 2026
14. Cardiovascular events with esaxerenone versus spironolactone in hypertensionJournal of Human Hypertension · 2026
15. Mental disorders and subsequent kidney function decline: A nationwide cohort study in JapanGeneral Hospital Psychiatry · 2026
16. Quality of life domains among caregivers of children with special health care needs in South Asia: a qualitative evidence synthesisInternational Journal for Equity in Health · 2026
17. Integrating Functional Genomic Descriptors into Explainable Machine-Learning Models for Cross-Aquatic Species Prediction of Metal-Containing Nanomaterials EcotoxicityEnvironmental Science & Technology Letters · 2026
18. The role of cytosolic mitochondrial DNA as a mitochondrial danger signal for stromal fibroblasts in forming the tumor-promoting microenvironment following radiation exposureJournal of Radiation Research · 2026
19. An eight-year national follow-up study on the employment trajectories of early-career pharmacists in Japan up to 2020Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences · 2026
20. Prediction model for aortic dissection, aortic aneurysm, and peripheral artery diseaseHypertension Research · 2026