(Event Report) Health Policy Academy, Health Policy 101: Session 4
date : 7/28/2015
Health Policy Academy, Health Policy 101
*This program is available in Japanese only.
The fourth session of Health Policy Academy: Health Policy 101 was held on July 22, 2015. This session’s topic was “International comparison of healthcare in Japan.” With a guest speaker, Professor Toshiki Mano from Tama University Graduate School and Long Term Care Solution, participants learned the current issues of Japan’s healthcare and its system by comparing other countries cases. In the later session, cases of reverse innovation; that is, healthcare innovation from developing and/or emerging countries for developed countries including Japan can learn were introduced by Mr. Onozaki.

Lecturers
・Kohei Onozaki, Board Member and President, HGPI
・Toshio Miyata, Executive Director, HGPI
・Toshiki Mano, Professor, Tama University Institute for Healthcare, Tama University Graduate School and Long Term Care Solution

Schedules for Lectures
*Please note this program is available in Japanese only.
Session 1: Health policy basics
・What is health policy?
・Health care players
・Health policy making process
・Urgent health policy issues in 2015
Session 2: Health policy in the news
・Health system history in numbers
・Post-war health policy in the media
・Health policy’s effect on society
・How flexible is health policy to change?
Session 3: Health care players
・Power balance in the health care industry
・Government actors in health policy
・Health policy and politics
・Stakeholders in health care
Session 4: Cross-national comparison of Japan’s health care system
・Japanese health care system and Europe
・Characteristics of Japanese health care system
・Global health policy issues
Session 5: Is healthcare in Japan sustainable?
・The transition of the total cost of social security and of the detail of it after the war
・Factors of increasing healthcare cost
・Three perspectives on healthcare sustainability
Session 6: Tips for future health policy
・Year 2025 in numbers
・Recent government actions to address issues of 2025
・Reading government materials
・Five sources for health policy information
Health and Global Policy Institute plans to offer a second series starting October 2015.
For more information on this program, please contact us at jimukyoku@hgpi.org
*This program is available in Japanese only.
The fourth session of Health Policy Academy: Health Policy 101 was held on July 22, 2015. This session’s topic was “International comparison of healthcare in Japan.” With a guest speaker, Professor Toshiki Mano from Tama University Graduate School and Long Term Care Solution, participants learned the current issues of Japan’s healthcare and its system by comparing other countries cases. In the later session, cases of reverse innovation; that is, healthcare innovation from developing and/or emerging countries for developed countries including Japan can learn were introduced by Mr. Onozaki.
Lecturers
・Kohei Onozaki, Board Member and President, HGPI
・Toshio Miyata, Executive Director, HGPI
・Toshiki Mano, Professor, Tama University Institute for Healthcare, Tama University Graduate School and Long Term Care Solution
Schedules for Lectures
*Please note this program is available in Japanese only.
Session 1: Health policy basics
・What is health policy?
・Health care players
・Health policy making process
・Urgent health policy issues in 2015
Session 2: Health policy in the news
・Health system history in numbers
・Post-war health policy in the media
・Health policy’s effect on society
・How flexible is health policy to change?
Session 3: Health care players
・Power balance in the health care industry
・Government actors in health policy
・Health policy and politics
・Stakeholders in health care
Session 4: Cross-national comparison of Japan’s health care system
・Japanese health care system and Europe
・Characteristics of Japanese health care system
・Global health policy issues
Session 5: Is healthcare in Japan sustainable?
・The transition of the total cost of social security and of the detail of it after the war
・Factors of increasing healthcare cost
・Three perspectives on healthcare sustainability
Session 6: Tips for future health policy
・Year 2025 in numbers
・Recent government actions to address issues of 2025
・Reading government materials
・Five sources for health policy information
Health and Global Policy Institute plans to offer a second series starting October 2015.
For more information on this program, please contact us at jimukyoku@hgpi.org
Exhibition date:2015-07-22
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