Miki Hanada

Miki Hanada
Born9 September 1914
Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Died1 August 2006 (age 91)
NationalityJapanese
OccupationNurse
Notable work
  • Reforms of nursing in Aomori Prefecture after the Second World War
  • Foundation of Aomori Prefectural Nursing School (later Aomori University of Health and Welfare)
  • Resolution of infant mortality in Aomori Prefecture
  • Establishment of visiting public health nursing system
  • Provision for the aging society in Aomori
Awards
  • Public Health Award
  • To-o Award

Miki Hanada (花田 ミキ, Hanada Miki, 9 September 1914 – 1 August 2006) was a Japanese researcher of health nursing and health advisor.

She devoted herself to saving lives and health of people in Aomori Prefecture after the World War II, making efforts in building the educational institute for nurses, resolving towns and villages without health nurses from the standpoint of health administration, and establishing the system of rescue and nursing in remote areas.[1] Her attitude has been handed down to a number of people who engage in nursing in Aomori even in Heisei period. Having worked as a military nurse during the war, she is known as a person who kept on telling her experiences during the war through self-published books　because of an unwavering belief that "everything that stands against life is evil".[2]

  1. ^ "通常総会特別講演 農村の人達の健康を守るために" (PDF). 富山県農村医学研究会誌. 7. 富山県農村医学研究会: 10. March 1976. NCID AN00175384. Retrieved 31 October 2015. 和書
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