Associate Professor　TORIMOTO Yasuko

Our research interests include the following:

1. Association between use of long-term care insurance and depression among care-givers of elderly people and children.

2. Social participation and relief of depression according to the degree of care by family care-givers.

3. Gender interaction among adolescents and the relationship between socioeconomic factors and depression .

4. Socioeconomic factors based on the number of DMF teeth in junior high school students.

(DMF=Decay-missing-filled)