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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reich, Michael R
• Shibuya, Kenji

Titel

The Future of Japan's Health System — Sustaining Good Health with Equity at Low Cost

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2015-11, Vol.373 (19), p.1793-1797

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Japan has long achieved good health at low cost, with increasing equity for its population. Now, however, the Japanese health system faces serious fiscal pressure due to a sluggish economy and the rapid aging and low birth rate of its population. Four years ago, Japan celebrated 50 years of achievement of good health at low cost and increasing equity for its population. 1 In 1961, at the beginning of a period of rapid economic development, while the country was still relatively poor (with a gross domestic product [GDP] half the size of Britain's), Japan reached full health insurance coverage of its population. In the next half-century, it continued to develop its health system and improve equity, even applying this principle of universal health coverage in its global health diplomacy. 1 Now, however, Japan faces serious fiscal pressure due to a sluggish economy and . . .