(Event Report) Health Policy Academy, Health Policy 101: Session 6
date : 3/17/2016
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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