Tetsuji Yamada, PhD

Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey
Department of Economics
311 North Fifth Street
Armitage Hall #330
Camden, NJ
USA 08102

Biographical Sketch: Biographical Sketch: Tetsuji Yamada, Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics Department of Economics Center for Children and Childhood Studies Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, USA E-mail: tyamada@crab.rutgers.edu and ytetsuji@aol.com Dr. Tetsuji Yamada is a Professor of Health Economics for the Department of Economics at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. Dr. Yamada serves as an Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty, M.A. and Ph.D. program with the Department of Childhood Studies and as a Faculty member of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University. He has taught Health Economics and Health Care, Economics of Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Care Finance, and Cost-benefit Analysis, at Rutgers. He is currently an Invited Research Scholar for the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan; a Research Scholar for Hosei Institute on Aging, Hosei University, Japan; and. a Researcher with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, ASIA Health Policy Program, Stanford University; is Prior to his current position at the Rutgers University, Dr. Yamada was an Associate Professor with Ritsumeikan University in Japan. He served as a health economist at the International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society in New York, as a health economics research associate of the NBER, as a health economics adviser of the WHO, as a visiting research scholar of the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and a research associate of the Center for the Pacific Basin of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. His current research includes: studies in health economics, i.e. cancer screening behavior, alcohol and drug abuse, risky health behavior among the youth and children, teen pregnancy prevention, accessibility of health care services and health disparity, unmet and delayed health care services, effectiveness of government health care policy, etc. He is also interested in government healthcare policy and health marketing in both the U.S. and other international settings (e.g. Japan and Taiwan). For an editorial contribution, he serves as the Editor in Chief of Journal of Health Behavior and Public Health; the Guest Editor of Special Issue on “Health Behavior and Public Health,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; and the Section Editor of Business Economics of the IIOAB Journal.

Papers:
4373.0 Perception of childbearing in a changing socioeconomic environment 5024.0 Challenges of healthy lifestyle, health disadvantages, and justice in aging: International comparison