Department of Social Psychiatry

　The Department of Social Psychiatry conducts "Health Services Research" in psychiatry to evaluate and to improve quality of psychiatric care including the following areas:
　 1) Health policy research (payment system, suicide prevention, research evaluation)
　 2) Health administration research (quality of care, safety management)
　 3) Research on comorbidity with physical illness (e.g., cardiac diseases, diabetes)
　In 2006, the department launched a national project to optimize antipsychotic prescription and to minimize restraint and seclusion in emergency and acute psychiatric care units. This collaborative project of clinicians and researchers is expected to become an international platform for multi-centre clinical research and a driving force for continuous quality improvement in psychiatric care.

Staffs

Position	Name
Director	Hiroto ITO
Section Chief	Yasuhiro HORIGUCHI
Researcher	Yasuyuki OKUMURA