Ichiro Kawachi

Society, Human Development & Health, Harvard School of Public Health, United States of America

Ichiro Kawachi
Professor of Social Epidemiology
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health, USA

Research Interests:
Social Determinants of Health: linking the macro social forces, such as income distribution, social cohesion and social capital, inequalities in political participation, and residential segregation to patterns of health and disease in populations
Psychosocial Risk Factors for Heart Disease.
Effects of passive smoking on disease risk.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Public Health & Epidemiology > Epidemiology (since 24 April 2006)

Links

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/ichiro-kawachi/

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  The Relation between Neighborhood Built Environment and Walking Activity among Older Adults.
  Recommended by Ichiro Kawachi
  
• 4.8
  The reversal of fortunes: trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States.
  Recommended by Ichiro Kawachi, Viola Vaccarino
  
• 3.0
  The effects of neighborhood density and street connectivity on walking behavior: the Twin Cities walking study.
  Recommended by Ichiro Kawachi
  
• 3.0
  Prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and coronary heart disease in the Normative Aging Study.
  Recommended by Ichiro Kawachi
  
• 3.0
  Leukocyte telomere length and cardiovascular disease in the cardiovascular health study.
  Recommended by Ichiro Kawachi
  
• 3.0
  Examining cause-specific mortality effects of economic crisis in a country with rapidly declining total mortality.
  Recommended by Ichiro Kawachi
  
• 3.0
  The effects of social status on biological aging as measured by white-blood-cell telomere length.
  Recommended by Ichiro Kawachi
  
• 8.4
  Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England.
  Recommended by Martin Hyde, Ichiro Kawachi, Johannes Siegrist, James Dunn