Health Service and Medical Care in Japan

Morio IINO (Graduate School of Medicine)

Objective
   Japan has achieved tremendous improvements in life expectancy during the last 50 years and leads the international life expectancy tables. This course will provide an overview of the systems of health service and medical care in this country, with special reference to rapid aging of the population and trends for epidemiology of lifestyle related disease and characteristics of lifestyles in Japan.

Class Plan

1. Lifestyle and Health (Prof. Iso H.)
2. Stress and Disease (Assoc. Prof. Ohira T.)
3. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (Assist. Prof. Imano H.)
4. Reproductive health Rights (Assist. Prof. Noda A.)
5. Cancer Control Progress (Prof. Sobue T.)
6. Mental health and Psychiatry (Assoc. Prof. Kitamura Y.)
7. Occupation and Health (Assist. Prof. Nakayama K.)
8. Lifestyle and DNA Stability (Assist. Prof. Lu Y.)
9. Medical and Pharmaceutical Development (Prof. Igarashi K.)
10. Identification of the Death (Assist. Prof. Kuriu Y.)
11. Death investigation system (Assist. Prof. Iino M.)
12. Forensic Toxicology (Assist. Prof. Hayashi T.)
13. Twin Research (Prof. Hayakawa K.)
14. Geriatric Medicine (Prof. Mikami H.)
15. Medial Care System (Prof. Ohno Y.)

Textbooks

1. R Detels, WW Holland, J McEwen, GS Omenn (ed.): Oxford Text book of Public Health, Vol.1-3, Oxford University Press, 1997.
2. Ministry of Health and Welfare: Annual Report on Health and Welfare, Japan International Cooperation of Welfare Services.
3. Ministry of Health and Welfare: Statistical Abstracts on Health and Welfare in Japan, Health and Welfare Statistics Association.

Grading Policy
   Based on a term paper and class attendance.