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(Event Report) Health Policy Academy, Health Policy 101: Session 6

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


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