JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Get the latest COVID-19 technical guidance, scientific and policy briefs here.✕
    • العربية
    • 中文
    • English
    • français
    • русский
    • español
    • Deutsch
    • português
English
  • العربية
  • 中文
  • English
  • français
  • русский
  • español
  • Deutsch
  • português
  • Home
  • Contact
  • Help

Browse

All of IRISCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

Statistics

Most PopularBy Country

Related Links

PAHO IRIS

Japan: health system review

Thumbnail
View/Open
HiT-11-5-2009-eng.pdf (‎1.737Mb)‎
View Statistics
Show Statistical Information
Altmetrics
Share
  • CSV
  • Excel
  • BibTeX
  • RIS
Abstract
The Health Systems in Transition (‎HiT)‎ profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of policyinitiatives in progress or under development. HiTs examine different approaches to the organization, financing and delivery of health services and therole of the main actors in health systems; describe the institutional framework, process, content and implementation of health and health care policies; and highlight challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis. Japan’s health system provides universal coverage of the populationthrough health insurance system for employees and their families (‎60% of the population)‎ and National Health Insurance (‎NHI)‎ system for the self-employed, retired and unemployed (‎40%)‎. Annual expenditure is around 8% of gross domestic product (‎GDP)‎ according to OECD estimates, and the main funding mechanisms are health insurance (‎50% of total spending)‎, taxation (‎36%)‎ and out-of-pocket payments (‎14%)‎. Population health in Japan is among the best in the world, with the longest life expectancy and lowest infant mortality. The population has aged considerably, with over 21% aged 65 years or older. Recent health system reforms are related in large part to this demographic challenge, such as the introduction of an independent financingsystem for the oldest-old population cross-subsidized by all health insurers, better integration of preventive services into the insurance system, reforming the methods of paying hospitals and the introduction of a new system of long-term care financed through insurance and administered by municipal governments.
Citation
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Tatara, Kozo, Okamoto, Etsuji, Allin, Sara. et al. (‎2009)‎. Japan: health system review. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/107958
Relation
Health Systems in Transition, vol. 11 (‎5)‎
Description
162 p.
ISSN
1817-6127
Language
English
Collections
  • Publications
Metadata
Show full item record

Show Statistical Information

View Item 
  • IRIS Home
  • 5. Regional Office for Europe
  • Publications
  • View Item
  • IRIS Home
  • 5. Regional Office for Europe
  • Publications
  • View Item

© 2021 WHO