Yasuhiro Nakanishi

National Institute of Public Health

Yasuhiro Nakanishi is a senior researcher at the Department of Health and Welfare Services, National Institute of Public Health, and holds a Ph.D. in Medical Science (Nara Medical University, Japan). He has been studying healthcare and long-term care expenditures and actual cases of health services coverage using big data from national health and long-term care insurance claims. Specifically, he focuses on analyzing the expenditures and cases of older adults, including centenarians. He also has more than ten years of experience in hospital management as an administrative staff member at a University Hospital. He has been researching hospital administration and healthcare finance, conducting the analysis for topics such as profit and loss related to drugs, labor costs of healthcare personnel, operation and management of operating rooms, and nosocomial infection control projects from the perspective of hospital management. These studies aim to obtain research outcomes that contribute to the practical application of public health policy. This is achieved through efforts to understand actual cases of health services coverage and healthcare institutions.