Tetsuji Yamada, Ph.D. Professor of Health Economics Rutgers University #330 Armitage Hall 311 North 5th Street Camden, NJ 08102 Phone: 856-225-6136 ytetsuji@aol.com or tyamada@crab.rutgers.edu

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       Dr. Tetsuji Yamada is currently a professor of Health Economics for the Department of Economics, an Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty, M.A. and Ph.D. program for the Department of Childhood Studies, and an Associate Faculty member for the Department of Child Studies at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. He has taught Health Economics and Health Care, Economics of Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Care Finance, Cost-benefit Analysis, Pharmaceutical Economics, and Managerial Economics at Rutgers since 1987. Dr. Yamada is currently a researcher for the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Comparative Health Policy Program, Stanford University. In addition, he is an Invited Research Scholar for Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan, and is a Research Scholar for Hosei Institute on Aging, Hosei University in Japan. Dr. Yamada was an Associate Professor for the Department of Economics of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He taught microeconomics and seminars for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. He earned his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Health Economics from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York; M.I.A. in International Affairs and Public Policies from Columbia University; and B.A. in Economics from Toyo University in Japan.

       His current research includes: studies in health economics, i.e. cancer screening behavior, child feeding behavior, hospital cost analysis, pharmaceutical innovation and health outcomes, health care services, elderly care, preventive care, health insurance and health outcomes, effectiveness of government health care policy, alcohol and drug abuse, risky health behavior among the youth and children, accessibility of health care services and health inequality, health care financing, etc. He is also interested in government healthcare policy, health marketing, and both in the U.S. and other international settings (e.g. Japan and Taiwan).

       His work has appeared in Japan and the World Economy, Applied Economics, Advance in Health Economics and Health Service Research, GENEVA Paper on Risk and Insurance, Social Science & Medicine, Health Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Cancer Education, Journal of the Japanese and International Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Insurance and Risk Management, International Journal of Transport Economics, International Journal of Environmental Research in Public Health, International Political Economy, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, the Quarterly of Social Security Research, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers, Time in Economic Theory, WHO Publication, Edward Elgar Publishing, University of Chicago Press for the NBER, Elsevier Science, etc.

 

"Private Health Insurance and Hospitalization under Japanese National Health Insurance," Open Economic Journal, in press 2009.

"An Evaluation of Colonoscopy Use: Implications for Health Education," Journal of Cancer Education, in press 2009.

"Evaluation of Waste Tire Resources Recovery Program and Environmental Health Policy in Taiwan," International Journal of Environmental Research in Public Health, 2009, Vol.6, No.3, pp.1075-1094.

"Healthcare Services Accessibility of Children in the USA," Applied Economics, 2009, Vol.41, No.4, pp.437-450.

"Healthcare Services Accessibility of Children in the USA," Applied Economics, 2008, pp.1-14, iFirst.

"Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Unmet Healthcare Needs under the State Children Health Insurance Program," Pravartak -- Journal of Insurance and Risk Management, Special Anniversary Health Issue, 2007, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.22-46.

"Behavioral Analysis of Community-based Formal Home Care, Informal Care and Nursing Home Care in Japan," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance and Issues and Practice, 2006, Vol.31, No.4, pp.600-632.

"Economic Evaluation for Relapse Prevention of Substance Users: Treatment Settings and Healthcare Policy," Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, 2005, 16, No.4, pp.431-450.

"A Study of Time Allocation of Japanese Households," Time in Economic Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K. 2004, VOL. III., Ch. 16. "Overwork of Employees and Their Health in Japan," in Change in Economics Structure and Labor Market, Ed. K. Seike, Koyou Nouryoku Kaihatsu Kikou, 2004, Ch. 7.

"The Demand for Health Check-ups under Uncertainty," Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States, University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 2003, Ch. 10.

"Equity in the Distribution of Health Care Utilization: Assessing the Urban Health Insurance Reform in China," Social Science & Medicine, 2002, Vol.55, No.10, pp. 1779-1794.

"Japanese Health Care Services and Asymmetric Information," International Political Economy, 2001, Vol.8.

"Hospital Services under the National Health Insurance System: A Transition from Fee-for-service to Capitation System," The Economics of Health Care in Asia-Pacific Countries, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001, Ch. 11.

"Differentials in the Demand for Health Check-up," the Quarterly of Social Security Research, 2000, VOL. 36.

"Determinants of Social Violence among the Youth and Their Risky Health Behavior: Policy Implications," WHO Document, 2000.

       Dr. Tetsuji Yamada is currently an Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty, M.A. and Ph.D. Program, Department of Childhood Studies, a Center Associate of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies in Rutgers University, Faculty Associate of the Walter Rand Institute in Rutgers University, and Associate member of the Institute of Health, Health Care Policy, Ageing Research in Rutgers University. He is doing research on "Accessibility to Healthcare Services" with Japanese researches as an Invited Research Scholar, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan and on "Aging Issues" with Japanese researchers as a Research Scholar of the Hosei on Aging in Hosei University, Japan.

       Dr. Yamada is currently an Advisor of the Committee on Aging Issues, the Japanese American Associate of New York, serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Economics, Editorial Advisory Board Members for Economics in Scientific Journals International, an Editorial Advisory Board Members for Health Care in Scientific Journals International, Academic Advisory Board for Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Global Issues, McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, as a member of the ASHE Scientific Committee in American Society of Health Economists, and as a member of the IHEA Scientific Committee in International Health Economic Association.

       Dr. Yamada has experience as a Health Economist for the International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society, a Research Associate of NBER, an Associate Professor of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, a Faculty of Research Fellow of NBER, an adviser of WHO, and a Visiting Research Scholar of Tsukuba University in Japan, a Representative of the Japan Economic Federation, and an instructor of the City University of New York. He has been a member of several professional organizations: American Economic Association, American Society of Health Economist, International Health Economic Association, Japan Economic Seminar, Omicron Delta Epsilon, etc. He has been internationally active in presenting research papers at various professional conferences. He is a referee and a reviewer for professional journals, books and research funding institutions.

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