Interdisciplinary study on the Interaction between health and biodiversity: challenges for new aspects of the healthy society

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K21569
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: A New Phase of Our Advanced Science and Technology Society
• Research Institution: Teikyo University
• Principal Investigator: Tango Toshiro 帝京大学, 大学院公衆衛生学研究科, 客員教授 (70124477)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 島津 秀康 帝京大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 研究員 (20634348) ; 鈴木 明日香 (根本明日香) 帝京大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 講師 (20722482) ; 山岡 和枝 帝京大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 客員教授 (50091038)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-06-28 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 健康 / 生物多様性 / 相互作用 / 大規模データ / サンプリング / 時間的・地域的集積性 / 空間疫学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aims of this study were to consider the interaction between health and biodiversity, to examine the practical relevance from the spatial epidemiological perspective of sampling of big data and regional temporal and regional clustering, and to plan the new development of the method to investigate future problem. Regarding new directions for future research, expansion of databases on biodiversity on a global scale, data analysis and modeling of changes in global biodiversity and biodiversity (viewpoint 1), a review of the diversity index and statistical methods used in population composition data for gut microbiota (viewpoint 2), and a spatial epidemiological study of the trend of suicide mortality (viewpoint 3), were conducted. Further development of a model that associates the response to environmental factors and biological communities is required.

Free Research Field

生物統計学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

生物多様性と健康には相互に関連する様々な課題が関係しており、その課題の解決のためには各種連携や社会科学と自然科学の枠を超えた学際的なアプローチに基づいた計画立案や地域コミュニティを巻き込んだ実践が必要となってくる。生物多様性を勘案し大規模データを用いたサンプリングによる不確実性を考慮した適切な調査計画の立案や、統計科学的モデリングを行っていくことは学術的意義や社会的意義を有する。