人文科学科 体育学分野

講座概要

体育学分野では、運動·スポーツが身体や心、社会生活に果たす役割を学び、人々の健康と豊かな暮らしを支える教育·研究に取り組んでいます。医学·歯学·薬学·看護学の各学部を対象とする「健康運動科学」や「医療とスポーツ」では、講義と実験·実技を通じて、健康づくりや体力づくりに関する知識を実践へと結びつけます。また、医療人に求められるコミュニケーション能力や、生活の中で生じる課題に対応する力を育み、一人ひとりの暮らしや地域の状況を踏まえて健康を支える視点を養います。

分野から

当分野では、学生の身体活動や生活習慣、子どもの発育·発達とスポーツ、災害後の市民協働による地域づくりなど、日々の暮らしに根差した課題を研究しています。「いわてスーパーキッズ事業」に関する研究では、競技力の向上とともに、子どもたちの健やかな成長を支える環境にも目を向けています。また、東日本大震災後の陸前高田市で続けられてきた取り組みを通じて、有事に見えてきた地域と一人ひとりのニーズを、平時の支え合いや健康づくりにつなげることを重視しています。こうした教育·研究を通じて、運動·スポーツの可能性を広く捉え、地域とともに健康で豊かな社会づくりに貢献していきます。

スタッフ

助教佐々木 亮平ささき りょうへい

講座における主たる研究テーマ

  1. 大学生の身体活動・体力・生活習慣に関する研究
  2. 子どもの運動状況と社会環境の変化に関する研究
  3. 子どもの体格と環境因子に関する研究
  4. 子どもの体力特性とアスリート育成に関する研究
  5. 市民協働と地域の健康づくりに関する研究

主な業績

  1. Yuka Kotozaki, Kozo Tanno, Kotaro Otsuka, Ryohei Sasaki & Makoto Sasaki: What factors are associated with new social isolation years after the great East Japan Earthquake?: findings from the TMM CommCohort study.BMC Public Health .25:2745. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23778-x
  1. *Megumi Tsubota-Utsugi,Ryohei Sasaki,*Rurik Suzuki,Kozo Tanno,Junji Kuno,Haruki Shimoda and Kiyomi Sakata: Changes in physical activity during the year after the Great East Japan Earthquake and future frailty in older survivors. Geriatrics & Gerontology International. 24(6) 563-570 . (2024)
  2. *Tomoya Itatani,*Michio Kojima,*Junichi Tanaka,*Ryo Horiike,*Kuniomi Sibata,Ryohei Sasaki:Operational Management and Improvement Strategies of Evacuation Centers during the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake—A Case Study of Wajima City. Safety. 10(3) 62 . (2024)
  1. Yuka Kotozaki, Kozo Tanno, Kotaro Otsuka, Ryohei Sasaki, Makoto Sasaki: Longitudinal changes in depressive symptoms associated with social isolation after the Great East Japan Earthquake in Iwate Prefecture: findings from the TMM CommCohort study. BMC Public Health,23:1154. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16082-z
  1. Yuka Kotozaki, Kozo Tanno, Kiyomi Sakata, Kotaro Otsuka, Ryohei Sasaki, Nobuyuki Takanashi, Mamoru Satoh, Atsushi Shimizu,Makoto Sasaki:Association between Social Isolation and Total Mortality after the Great East Japan Earthquake in Iwate Prefecture: Findings from the TMM CommCohort Study.Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 4343. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074343.(2022) 
  2. Takahiro Mikami, Kozo Tanno, Ryohei Sasaki, Nobuyuki Takanashi, Yuka Kotozaki, Koichi Asahi, Fumitaka Tanaka, Shinichi Omama, *Mana Kogure, *Naoki Nakaya, *Tomohiro Nakamura, *Naho Tsuchiya, *Akira Narita, *Atsushi Hozawa, Jiro Hitomi, Kiyomi Sakata, Makoto Sasaki: Association between the extent of house collapse and urine sodium-to-potassium ratio of victims affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: a cross-sectional study. Hypertension Research,46:1247–1256. (2023) 
  1. Yuka Kotozaki, Kozo Tanno, Kiyomi Sakata, Eri Takusari, Kotaro Otsuka, *Hiroaki Tomita, Ryohei Sasaki,Nobuyuki Takanashi, Takahiro Mikami, *Atsushi Hozawa, *Naoki Nakaya, *Naho Tsuchiya,*Tomohiro Nakamura, *Akira Narita, *Yasuyuki Taki, Atsushi Shimizu, Jiro Hitomi, Mamoru Satoh and Makoto Sasaki.:Association between the social isolation and depressive symptoms after the great East Japan earthquake: findings from the baseline survey of the TMM CommCohort study. BMC Public Health 21:925.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10896-5.(2021)
  2. Noriko Takebe, Kozo Tanno, Hideki Ohmomo, Mari Hangai, Tomoyasu Oda, Yutaka Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Takanashi, Ryohei Sasaki, Atsushi Shimizu, Akira Sasaki, Kiyomi Sakata, Makoto Sasaki, Yasushi Ishigaki.:Weight Gain after Age 20 Years Is Associated with Unfavorable Lifestyle Factors Contributing to Increased Incidence of Metabolic Disorders. Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy2021:14 2065-2075.(2021)
  3. Megumi Tsubota-Utsugi, Yuki Yonekura, Ruriko Suzuki, Ryohei Sasaki, Kozo Tanno, Haruki Shimoda, Akira Ogawa, Seiichiro Kobayashi, Kiyomi Sakata.:Psychological distress in responders and nonresponders in a 5-year follow-up health survey: The RIAS Study. Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20200617.(2021)
  4. Kozo Tanno, *Yuki Yonekura, *Nagako Okuda, *Toru Kuribayashi, *En Yabe, Megumi Tsubota-Utsugi, Shinichi Omama, *Toshiyuki Onoda, *Masaki Ohsawa, Kuniaki Ogasawara, Fumitaka Tanaka, Koichi Asahi, Ryo Itabashi, Shigeki Ito, Yasushi Ishigaki, Fumiaki Takahashi, *Makoto Koshiyama, Ryohei Sasaki, Daisuke Fujimaki, Nobuyuki Takanashi, Eri Takusari, Kiyomi Sakata, *Akira Okayama:Association between Milk Intake and Incident Stroke among Japanese Community Dwellers: The Iwate-KENCO Study. Nutrients 2021, 13, 3781. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113781.(2021)
  1. *Atsushi Hozawa, Kozo Tanno, *Naoki Nakaya, *Tomohiro Nakamura, *Naho Tsuchiya, *Takumi Hirata, *Akira Narita, *Mana Kogure, *Kotaro Nochioka, Ryohei Sasaki, et al.:Study profile of The Tohoku Medical Megabank Community-Based Cohort Study.Journal of Epidemiology.
  2. Shuko Takahashi, Kozo Tanno, *Yuki Yonekura, *Masaki Ohsawa, *Toru Kuribayashi, Yasuhiro Ishibashi, Shinichi Omama, Fumitaka Tanaka, Ryohei Sasaki, Megumi Tsubota-Utsugi, Eri Takusari, *Makoto Koshiyama, *Toshiyuki Onoda, Kiyomi Sakata, *Kazuyoshi Itai, *Akira Okayama, *Iwate KENCO study group.:Poor self-rated health predicts the incidence of functional disability in elderly community dwellers in Japan: a prospective cohort study. BMC Geriatrics.328(2020)https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20190271(2020)