Health Service and Medical Care in Japan

Go Yoshizawa (Graduate School of Medicine)

Course 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.

Course Content
   L1. Lifestyle and Health (Prof. Iso H.)
   L2. Stress and Disease (Assoc. Prof. Ohira T.)
   L3. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (Assist. Prof. Imano H.)
   L4. Reproductive Health and Rights (Assist. Prof. Noda A.)
   L5. Cancer Control Program (Prof. Sobue T.)
   L6. Neuroscience and Mental Health (Assoc. Prof. Kitamura Y.)
   L7. Lifestyle and DNA Stability (Assist. Prof. Lu Y.)
   L8. Ethics and governance of life science research (Prof. Kato K.)
   L9. Importance of "better" diagnosis of death - one way for prevention of our health (Prof. Matsumoto H.)
   L10. Alcohol and health - Alcohol consumption affects our health, don't it? (Prof. Matsumoto H.)
   L11. Drinking and Brain injury - why does head trauma after drinking result in poor prognosis? (Assoc. Prof. Katada R.)
   L12. Drug Interaction - Drug and Alcohol (Prof. Igarashi K.)
   L13. Twin Research (Prof. Hayakawa K.)
   L14. Developmental Disorder (Prof. Nagai T.)
   L15. 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.