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We would like to share with you the top five most read recommendations and reports from the third quarter of fiscal year 2025.

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[Research Report] Perceptions, Knowledge, Actions and Perspectives of Healthcare Organizations in Japan in Relation to Climate Change and Health: A Cross-Sectional Study

Ahead of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),  HGPI conducted an online survey to assess the awareness, knowledge, actions, and policy perspectives of academic societies, professional associations, and industry organizations in Japan’s healthcare sector on climate change and health.

The survey was conducted from October 3 to 28, 2025. We received responses from 169 organizations, of which 152 were valid (118 academic societies, 4 professional associations, and 30 industry organizations). Most responses came from organization presidents (58.6%), indicating that the responses represented official organizational views.

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[Recommendations] Kidney Disease Control Promotion Project “Policy Recommendations on Strengthening Chronic Kidney Disease Strategies: Challenges and Solutions in Seeking Medical Care from the Perspective of Patients and Those Affected”

HGPI conducted a Quantitative Survey (part III) and a Qualitative Interview Survey (part IV) with the aim of clarifying the options, decisions, and difficulties experienced by individuals with health checkup findings suggestive of CKD in the process from checkup to treatment. Based on the results of these surveys, an Advisory Board Meeting was held on March 18, 2025, bringing together nephrologists and specialists in occupational health, public health, and health economics. The meeting served to deepen discussions on how to improve future CKD countermeasures, such as examining the target groups for whom post-checkup treatment recommendations should be intensified, and the results were compiled as Policy Recommendations (part V).

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[Discussion Points] Obesity Control as a Challenge for Society: Promoting Understanding of Obesity and Finding Solutions Through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration

A survey was conducted by HGPI to grasp the current status of existing obesity and obesity disease policies in Japan and to suggest a desirable direction for such policies in the future. HGPI performed this analysis and compiled concrete discussion points by conducting interviews with people living with obesity, healthcare providers, experts in social epidemiology or public health, and policymakers. Furthermore, HGPI reviewed the history of obesity and NCD policies to analyze the challenges of related policies. The result is a compilation of concrete discussion points spanning prevention to the establishment of a healthcare provision system to address obesity disease.

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[Research Report] The 2025 Public Opinion Survey on Healthcare in Japan

In December 2024, HGPI conducted a nationwide public opinion survey of 1,000 men and women age 20 years and over.

In addition to examining satisfaction in healthcare like past surveys, this year’s survey also asked about access to healthcare institutions and medicines in light of recent developments like work-style reform for physicians and the launch of the system for patient-selected extra medical services. Furthermore, in December 2024, Japan stopped issuing new insurance cards and began full-scale efforts to transition to the use of My Number cards in their place. Expectations are high for this change to help centralize medical information and advance digital transformation (DX). Given these circumstances, this year’s survey also examined public awareness of the use of medical information.

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[Policy Recommendations] Mental Health Project: Recommendations on Three Issues in the Area of Mental Health

it is expected that in the area of mental health in Japan, multi-stakeholder cooperation and repeated efforts towards improvement are made with the aim of improving the quality of life (QOL) of patients and parties involved, by attending to their perspectives and voices. On the other hand, in the field of mental health, it is often difficult for people with lived experience of mental illness to raise their own voices due to the nature of the illness, and a strong stigma regarding mental illness still exists in society. Thus, major improvements have yet to be made and are warranted.

To address this situation, drawing on our past activities and the formulation of recommendations and policy trends, we have established a forum for discussion on the three issues in the field of mental health, compiling them into a set of recommendations.

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In addition to those featured here, we have published recommendations and reports for each of our projects. On Our website, you can find the recommendations and reports we have published up to now, project by project and fiscal year by fiscal year.