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(Event Report) Health Policy Academy, Health Policy 101: Session 3

(Event Report) Health Policy Academy, Health Policy 101: Session 3
Health Policy Academy, Health Policy 101: Session 3
*Please note this program is available in Japanese only.

The 3rd session of HGPI’s Health Policy Academy was held with a guest speaker, Mr. Yutaka Iwabuchi, a part-time professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. Today’s topic is “International comparison of healthcare in Japan.”


Lecturers
・Mr. Yutaka Iwabuchi, a part-time professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
・Kohei Onozaki, Board Member and President, HGPI
・Toshio Miyata, Executive Director, HGPI

Schedules for Lectures

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: 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 4: 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 5: Health care players
・Power balance in the health care industry
・Government actors in health policy
・Health policy and politics
・Stakeholders in health care

Session 6: Tips for future health policy
・Reading government materials
・Five sources for health policy information
・Healthcare in 20 years

Exhibition date:2015-12-17


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