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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This open access book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and healthy ageing in Japan. With the highest life expectancy and the largest elderly population in the world, Japan has witnessed health inequality by region and social class becoming more prevalent since the 2000s. The first half of this volume describes in detail major NCDs, such as cancers, heart and kidney diseases, diabetes, stroke, and metabolic syndrome. The second half, on the other hand, explores various SDHs relating to healthy ageing. All chapters review and focus on SDHs, particularly health inequality associated with socio-economic status and social capital, which are widely addressed in the field of social epidemiology. The book makes the argument that “Health for All” advocated by the WHO should be implemented based on social justice and benefits for the greater society. Public health researchers and policymakers, both in Japan and other nations, will gain scientific evidence from this book to prepare for the coming era as ageing becomes a global issue.

Health Economics --- Social Structure, Social Inequality --- Epidemiology --- Health Policy --- Social Structure --- Social determinants of health (SDHs) --- Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) --- Healthy ageing --- Socio-economic status --- Social epidemiology --- Public health in Japan --- Open Access --- Social & ethical issues --- Epidemiology & medical statistics --- Health systems & services --- Political structure & processes

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Universities are social universes in their own right. They are the site of multiple, complex and diverse social relations, identities, communities, knowledges and practices. At the heart of this book are people enrolling at university for the first time and entering into the broad variety of social relations and contexts entailed in their ‘coming to know’ at, of and through university. By recasting ‘the transition to university’ as simultaneously and necessarily entailing a transition of university — indeed universities — and of their many and varied constitutive relations, structures and practices, the contributors to this book seek to reconceptualise the ‘first-year experience’ in terms of multiple and dynamic processes of dialogue and exchange amongst all participants. They interrogate taken-for-granted understandings of what ‘the university’ is, and consider what universities might yet become.

universities in transition --- transformations on campus --- jade mckay --- the university of adelaide student learning hub: a case study --- university transitions in practice: research-learning, fields and their communities of practice --- bradley review --- reconceptualising: transition and universities --- changing social relations in higher education: the first-year international student and the ‘chinese learner’ in australia --- transition to university --- dee michel --- stephen parker --- marcia devlin --- kendra backstrom --- heather brook --- revaluing: ‘non-traditional’ student groups in higher education classism on campus? --- first year experience --- exploring and extending understandings of social class in the contemporary higher education debate --- realising --- relating experiences: regional and remote students in their first year at university --- trevor gale --- of education co-creation --- deane fergie --- knowing students --- pascale quester --- reframing ‘the problem’: students from low socio-economic status backgrounds transitioning