Reduction in the incidence of cognitive impairment and related costs through an innovative health awareness programme in rural Japan

• Ayako Shoji ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ayako Shoji, Ataru Igarashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mountain.ash795@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Healthcare Consulting Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1077-6393

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• Kenichi Kudo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KK, KM and SN also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Center of Healthy Aging Innovation, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan, Integrated Clinical Care Informatics Inc., Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Koichi Murashita ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KK, KM and SN also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center of Healthy Aging Innovation, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan

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• Shigeyuki Nakaji ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KK, KM and SN also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Center of Healthy Aging Innovation, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan

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• Ataru Igarashi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ayako Shoji, Ataru Igarashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Health Data Science, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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