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- 工学院，物質理工学院，環境・社会理工学院共通科目
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- Instructor(s)
- Ogata Hiroya Nishimura Yukimitsu
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Mon3-4(H101) Thr3-4(H101)
- Group
- -
- Course number
- LAH.T316
- Credits
- 2
- Academic year
- 2016
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2016/4/27
- Lecture notes updated
- -
- Language used
- Japanese
- Access Index
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Course description and aims
As decreasing the number of children, the problem of health and living long become more and more polular. To maintain the nations health, the medical system play an important role. To maintain health of worker and childrenin a family and to maintain health of retired, it is important to study about the needs of medical services and establishing the medical service and practicing these institutional practicion. In this class, the specialists in this field will teach class by class. On Monday class, we forcuse the income and gaps of receiving medical service, so called access to medical service. Om Thusday Class, we forcuse on the system of medical service in Japan and introducing those of the foreign develoved countries.
The purpose of this course is to understand the implovement of health of individual and society a whole by studying the mdical system and medical servicere. It is important to understand the role of government, local government, entrepreners on maitaining the health of people considering various factors for example, life style, work style, income, retired or aged.
Student learning outcomes
Understand the relationships between medical service and society or entreprener.
Understand the relationships between medical system and work style.
Understand the problem of the inequality of medical services.
Keywords
ocupation,inequality of income, inequality of health, access to medical services, nationwide insurance, medical system, medical services
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Three specialists are in charge of this class. Nishimura will deal with the problems relating to life style, work style and health. Otsu will deal with the problem of income inequality and access to medical services, Prof Ogata will deal with Japanese medical system.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Japanese mdeical system(by Ogata) | Understand medical system |
| Class 2 | Social index of life(by Nishimura) | Understand the role of some social index |
| Class 3 | Japanese health insurance and medical cost | Understand nation wide health insurance and resource |
| Class 4 | work style and some statistics | Understand work style and social wealfare |
| Class 5 | Japanese medical services | Comparative stuty of medical services with other countries |
| Class 6 | Work and Mental health(+Midterm test by Nishimura) | Understand work style and effects on children |
| Class 7 | History of Japanese medical system | Understand the history of Japanese medical system |
| Class 8 | The lecture will be focused the problem of inequality and health. (by Otsu) | Some specific indicators from OECD and Japanese official indicators |
| Class 9 | Inovation on medical system(1) | Inovation of medical system in 2006 |
| Class 10 | This lecture will review the trends in income inequality which is one of background of health inequality. | Gini coefficient and the relative poverty rate |
| Class 11 | Inovation on medical system(2) | medical inovation around 2025 visions |
| Class 12 | This lecture will review the inequality of access to Healthcare. | The relationship of access to Healthcare and the socio-economic statistics |
| Class 13 | Payment of medical expense (remuneration mdeical expense) | Comparative study of other countries |
| Class 14 | This lecture will study the policy for correcting the equality based on the past lectures.(+Midterm test by Otsu) | To Review the past policy and consider future prospects and issues |
| Class 15 | Managemente of medical institution(+ Test by Ogata) | Comparing medical institution to other business entities |
Textbook(s)
Not specified.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Sepcifiy as neeeded.
Assessment criteria and methods
Each lecturer's midterm paper Tests(30%+30%+40%)
Related courses
- LAH.S107 ： Sociology A
- LAH.S209 ： Economics B
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
non
