Health Policy Academy, Health Policy 101
*This program was available in Japanese only.

The 6th session of Health Policy Academy: Health Policy 101, was held on March 17, 2016. The topic for this session was “A Guide to Health Policy in the Future.” The session covered how to comprehend government documents and suggested several sources to gain information about the latest health policies. Participants also shared their ideas of healthcare reform that is needed and how these reforms can be made possible.

Lecturers
・Kohei Onozaki, HGPI Board Member and President
・Toshio Miyata, HGPI Executive Director

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: 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
・Recent government actions to address issues of 2025
・Reading government materials
・Healthcare in 20 years


Health and Global Policy Institute plans to offer a third series starting April 2016. For more information about the application, please see here (in Japanese). Please contact us at jimukyoku@hgpi.org if you have any questions. Application closes at 23:59, March 22, 2016.

Exhibition date：2016-03-19