OECD Reviews of Public Health: Japan
A Healthier Tomorrow
This review assesses Japan's public health system, highlights areas of strength and
weakness, and makes a number of recommendations for improvement. The review examines
Japan's public health system architecture, and how well policies are responding to
population health challenges, including Japan's ambition of maintaining good population
health, as well as promoting longer healthy life expectancy for the large and growing
elderly population. In particular, the review assesses Japan's broad primary prevention
strategy, and extensive health check-ups programme, which is the cornerstone of Japan's
secondary prevention strategy. The review also examines Japan's exposure to public
health emergencies, and capacity to respond to emergencies as and when they occur.
Published on February 06, 2019
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