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HEALTH SYSTEMIN FOCUS
JAPANReporters: Lustre,Ceferino
Salisi, JamesMembers: Sabularce, Joey Motos, Jeffrey
de Guzman,Angelo Dubrico, Gretchen
Profile of JAPAN
• 3rd largest economy in the world (recently surpassed by China)
• constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
• 47 perfectures
• Japan has a healthcare system characterized by universal health insurance coverage, as all Japanese citizens belong to one of the country’s health insurance systems.
• hybrid system funded by job-based insurance premiums and taxes -- is universal and mandatory, and consumes about 8 percent of the nation's gross domestic product
BISMARCKIAN Model
• State-mandated social insurance, started by Bismarck in
1883, 1st Chancellor in Germany• Covers all or most citizens
through employer and employee payments to insurance , while providing care through public &
private providersfound in Germany, Japan, Belgium,
France, Netherlands
Demographic Characteristics
• As of May 2010: population 127, 360, 000
Male: 62, 010, 000Females : 65, 340, 000
• The average life expectancy remains among the highest in the world.
• In 2009: 86.44 years - women79.59 years – men
In 2008, the crude birth rate was 8.7 per 1000 persons and the crude death rate was 9.1 per 1000 persons
General Mortality
• death rates had gradually declined since 1957, recording the lowest rate of 6.0 in 1979 and 1982.
• deaths have demonstrated an upward trend, and death rates have been growing, reflecting the aging of the population
General Mortality
• Due to a highly-technological, competition-oriented society, the stress levels felt by all age groups are rising.
• The number of suicides in Japan surpassed the 30,000 mark for the first time in 1998 and has since remained in the range of 30,000 per year, registering at 30,649 in 2009.
• The number of suicides was particularly high for men in their 20s, 30s and 40s.
Causes of Infant Deaths
• 30% congenital malformations
• 13.8% respiratory and cardiovascular diseases
Four Primary Mechanisms:• Public health centers – prevention and
maintenance, • Physician offices – solo-practice
physician in smaller communities• Clinics – in large communities,
in-/outpatient care offered • Hospitals – more than 20 beds
and contain higher level of technology
Public Health System
• 411 Public health centers by perfectures– doctor, dentist, pharmacist, veterinarian, X-ray specialist,
nurse, dietician– Regulatory (licensing, sanitation)
• 2,692 Municipal health centers– Community health promotion– General services
• The four subsystems are not always closely coordinated and continually
compete for resources. • Traditional medicine is extensively
practiced and herbal medicines are widely sold.
Health Insurance System
• There is universal coverage of the population by statutory health insurance
• Three insurance schemes:– SMHI , for employees of large companies and
their dependents– GMHI, for employees of small to medium-sized
corporations and their dependents– NHI, for the self-employed
• Public-administered financing through numerous schemes,
• Delivery is highly fragmented/decentralized,
• Private hospitals dominate the hospital system,• Hospitals operate as a closed system,• There is freedom to choose providers,• There is no gate-keeper system,
• Payment system is fee-for- service under a national uniform price schedule,
• There is long waiting time but short consultation time,
• Expenditure on drugs comprises a high share of total health expenditure,
• There is no complete separation of drug prescribing and dispensing,
Utilization of Health Facilities
• Overutilization– 14 consults per person per yr (vs 4 consults in US, 2003)– 13.8 days ave. stay in acute beds in hospital (vs. 5.6 US,2006)– Overprescribing of diagnostic tests (doctors own equipment)
Source: The Challenge of Reforming Japan’s Health System. McKinsey &Company Nov 2008
Responsiveness and Client Satisfaction
• Long waiting time– 50% of the time > 30 mins
• Short care time spent with physician
-13.5 % < 3 mins, 54% 3-9 mins
Source: 2010 Japan Ministry of Health data
Nurses
• 980 nurses per 100,000 (2008 data), improved from 821 in 2000
• Nurses in Japan have similar situations as in other OECD nations—lack of autonomy, low salaries, lack of professional recognition, MDs in teaching positions
• Public health nurses have most advanced training• Clinical nurses• Nurse midwives• Assistant nurses
• Four levels of nursing:– Public health nurse: graduate program, provide home
health, pediatric check-ups, industrial health– Clinical nurse: 3 yrs beyond high school, 80% in hospital,
15% in clinics– Nurse Midwives: Critical role in prenatal care and
delivery, clinical training & practicum, 50% hospital based, 33% own practice
• Assistant nurse: 2 year vocational program, like LPN in US (Tracey Lynn Koehlmoos, PhD, MHA,Lecture 13, HSCI 609 Comparative International)
Physicians
• Decline in number especially in pediatrics and obstetrics– 222 per 100,000 in 2008 (very low for OECD, since average is 300
per 100,000)
• No academic differentiation between specialist and generalists
• Most clinics and small hospitals are owned and operated by private physicians
• However, the trend is now away from private FFS practice toward more prestigious, salaried hospital-based practice (Tracey Lynn Koehlmoos, PhD, MHA, Lecture 13, HSCI 609 Comparative Internation)
• Physicians as businessmen• Physicians as pharmacists• Physicians as policy makers• No emphasis on informed consent or full
disclosure
Midlevel and other Health Professionals
• Allied medical professions have been slow to develop
• Midwives, health admin, mental health counselling, psychotherapy,
• Medical technology• Emergency medical services• Long term care
• Universal insurance (all employers offer coverage for employees and dependents, 1995) –started 1961
• National insurance program supplements for those not fully employed
• Health Insurance Law of 1922• New Medical Service Law 1948
• Health costs are lowered by:– limiting prices for pharmaceuticals and
discouraging high-cost services
• Promoting an appropriate combination of the fee-for-service reimbursement system (medical fees are paid for each medical act)and fixed payment system (a fixed amount of fee is paid regardless of individual medical act), and encouraging appropriate divisionof roles and collaboration between hospitals and clinics.
• Health and welfare services for disabled and senior citizens
• The proportion of Japan's social security expenditure to national income registered 24.4 percent. (70% elderly cost) – SHJ 2010
Distribution of health spending
• 49.2% insurance• 36.4% taxes• 14.4% out of pocket
• 1/3 of spending for elderly
Source: Japan:Health Systems Review,vol. 11, No.5, World Health Organization, 2009
Health Spending
• 6.6% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), among the lowest in OECD countries, from a low of 2.6% of GDP in 1956, yet GDP growth is stagnating
• $ 2,600 per capita in 2005
Health Regulation and Governance
The New Medical Service Law (1948)basis for development and regulation of healthcare
facilitiesMedical Care Council recommends and coordinates
hospital services and clinics
• Health Promotion Law (2002) – importance of an environment conducive to healthier lifestyles as
strategy for the ageing society
1. Medical Care Acthuman and capital resources are regulated
2. Health Insurance Actfinancing is regulated
Regulation at central government level
• Supervision and regulation of health care providers (hospitals and clinics)regarding health insurance
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing and imports• supervises the pharmaceutical industry over
manufacturing, clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance
Regulation at prefecture level
• The Medical Care Act delegates regulation of health care providers (hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and health care homes) to the prefecture governments.
• stand in the forefront of activities and responsibilities
• health insurance reimbursement and health service management
Regulation and governance of the purchasing process
• Contracts for the insurance system with providers are made between the government and individual providers, and there is little room for the discretion of the insurers
• the government possesses sole purchasing power over health insurance practices
Regulating quality of care
• Medical Care Act sets the minimal standards of health care based on structural indicators such as health personnel and hospital facilities, the violation of which may result in criminal charges
Challenges to Japan’s Health Sector
• Aging Population• Differential Insurance Benefits• Inadequate Coordination between Public and
Private Health Care• Obsolete physicians• Health worker shortage• Duplication and Overlap of Providers• Inadequate Incentive Structure• Insufficient Attention to Modern Management
Aging Population
• Japan has the world's oldest population¹– by 2050, 40 percent will be 65 or older– Treatment will be more expensive for anticipated case
mix– Demand for medical care will triple in the next 25
years
¹Harden B. Health Care in Japan: Low-Cost, for Now: Aging Population could Strain System. The Washington Post. September 9, 2009.
Differential Insurance Benefits
• Basic benefits are universal• Special benefits vary widely
– Extras services are covered by private insurers– Costs are not effectively controlled²– Access to health care becomes a problem
²McKinsey. The Challenge of Reforming Japan’s Health System
Inadequate Coordination between Public and Private Health Care
• Little formal cooperation and coordination between the private health care system and locally based public health care system – Physicians as entrepreneurs
• Unmitigated development of private health care providers
Obsolete Physicians
• No continuing medical education for physicians – Head Surgeon of Tokyo Medical University lost 3 out
of 20 patients he performed a heart valve operation on; he was not trained to do heart valve surgeries
• No academic differentiation between general practitioners and specialists
Health Worker Shortage
• Physicians aggregate in lucrative fields like dermatology and ophthalmology and avoid surgery because of its stressful nature
• Not enough surgeons, obstetricians, and nurses, anesthesiologists, emergency room physicians– Low pay, long hours, stressful job
Duplication and Overlap of Providers
• Hospitals experience a “crowding-out” effect– Space for emergency care and serious medical conditions
are taken by routine treatment³• No gatekeeper for medical care or hospital stay
• Japan has three times as many hospitals as the US per capita
3Harden B. Health Care in Japan: Low-Cost, for Now: Aging Population could Strain System. The Washington Post. September 9, 2009.
Inadequate Incentive Structure
• Does not encourage careful practice because services are rewarded regardless of quality or the skills of provider– Physicians are revered, their decisions are rarely
questioned
Insufficient Attention to Modern Management
• Relative lack of hospital administration– Lack formal systems to evaluate quality and
appropriateness of care• Overutilization of unnecessary medical procedures
– Physicians with no administration training continue to dominate decision making
Outline of ReformsYear REFORMS
1922 Health insurance law(private sector)
1938 Ministry of Health & Welfare established
National Health Insurance Law
1948 Medical Service Law, Public Health Center Act, Act on Nurses & Midwives
1961 Universal Health Insurance completed
1982 Health Services for the Elderly Act
1985 Revision of Medical Care Act
1989 10 year Plan for Elderly (Gold Plan)
2002 Health Promotion Act or Healthy Japan 21
2006 Structural Health Care Reform Act,
2008 Elderly Health Care Security Act
Medical Service Law
• 1948– Post war period– Medical facilities destroyed, shortage of
Personnel– Formalized the system, allowing physicians to
open own practice or clinics– Together w/ Act on Medical Practitioners, Nurses
and Midwives
National Health Insurance
• National Health Insurance Act in 1938– Included the farmers, self-employed– Low coverage since voluntary participation– Approximately 30 million still uninsured
Source: Growth of Economy and Accomplishment of Universal Medical Insurance and Pension Programs: 1955-1964, Japan Ministry of Health website
Universal Health Insurance
• Completed in 1961– Required all citizens to be insured– Increased subsidies to 30% from the national to
municipal government
Separation of prescribing & dispensing
• Stipulated in 1874 Medical Actbut not implemented
• 1980s• Advocacy for implementation
• 1990s– 54% drugs dispensed by pharmacists
Health Services for the Elderly Act
• 1982– Financial redistribution mechanism for elderly
insured– insurers with higher than national average
enrolment will contribute less and vice versa
Gold Plan
• 1989– 10 year Strategic Plan for Health & Welfare
Services for the Elderly– Each municipality then had own Health &
Welfare Plan– However, heavily relied on taxes for financing
the plan
Healthy Japan 21
• 2000– Addressed the increasing # of lifestyle-related
diseases– Influenced by the Healthy People 2000 of US,
where smoking is declining– National Health Promotion in the 21st century– Community level involvement
Healthy Japan 21
• 2000
– 9 areas (smoking, alcohol , nutrition, exercise, leisure, circulatory, diabetes, cancer)
Health Care Reform Package
• 2002– For 1st time in Japan history,
Health expenditures decreasedue to price reduction in
medical fee (2.7%), thus*decrease in overall health
spending by 0.7%
Source: “Japan and Massachussetts: a Comparison of Universal Health Care Systems”
Structural Health Care Reform Act
• 2006– Addressed problems in inequality in elderly
enrolment– Effectively separated the insurance of 75 yrs old
from other insurances
Elderly Health Care Security Act• 10% co-insurance for
old-old above 75 yrs• 30%co-insurance for young- old,65-75 yrs
TELEMEDICINE and COMMUNITY Health Centers
• addressed lack of physicians in rural areas– Manned by nurses– Use of Information technology
2 year Mandatory Internship in General Medicine
• 2006– Addressed the “stagnation” of Japanese doctors– Mandatory before practice of medicine– General residency (focus medical and surgical
areas)
Japanese Residency Matching Program
• 2003– Addressed the “stagnation” of Japanese doctors– Similar to US, where a doctor is matched to the
appropriate training hospital
Recent Innovations
• Toyono town in Osaka Perfecture– Telephone consultations– Primary care services in emergency rooms– 80% drop in # children treated in emergency
rooms
Remaining Issues
• Lack of monitoring in reimbursements of insurance
• Lack of assessment mechanism of cost effectiveness of medical interventions
• Lack of incentives for personnel for results (more incentives if more patients)
• Lack of accreditation of physicians