Profiles And Contributions To This Article

Rural health in Japan: past and future

qualifications: MEd

contribution: wrote the first draft

position: Senior Lecturer

Japan

Affiliation: Department of Medical Education, University of Toyama. Profession: General practice and Paediatrics. Interest: Community-based Medical Education

Prof Masatoshi Matsumoto

qualifications: PhD

contribution: wrote the first draft

position: Professor

Japan

Masatoshi Matsumoto is the professor of rural health at Hiroshima University, Japan. He is a general practitioner who worked for some years in the least populated mountain village in rural Japan. He has taught rural health at Jichi Medical University, the Japanese medical school founded solely for producing rural doctors, for more than ten years. His academic interests are rural health policy, rural medical education, medical anthropology and rural community-based epidemiology.