This website reports data and measures related to healthy life expectancy and social derterminants of health from Japan.
Healthy Life Expectancy
- Documents about Healthy Life Expectancy in Japan
- Extension of healhty life expectancy and reduction of health disparities
in the Reference Material for Health Japan 21 (the second term), Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan - Healhty Life Expectancy Calculation Guidelines
- Healthy life expectancy calculation table
- Healthy life expectancy by prefecture in Japan
- Papers about Healthy Life Expectancy in Japan
- Hashimoto S, et al. Gains in disability-free life expectancy from elimination of diseases and injuries in Japan. J Epidemiol. 2012;22(3):199-204.
- Seko R, et al. Trends in life expectancy with care needs based on long-term care insurance data in Japan. J Epidemiol. 2012;22(3):238-43.
- T Ojima, et al. Healthy Life Expectancy in Japan and comparison with EU. Eur J Public Health 2013; 23(suppl1):44.
- T Ojima. Healthy Life Expectancy in Japan. JA EHLEIS (Joint Action European Health and Life Expectancy Information System) meeting in April 2013.
Social Determinants of Health
- Examples of Measures for Social Determinants of Health in Japan
- Pleasant, sustainable care prevention
The Case of Taketoyo Town, Aichi Prefecture - Reduced medical expenditures with social participation of elders
The Case of Kamikatsu Town, Tokushima Prefecture
Links
- Links to international websites
- Joint Action European Health & Life Expectancy Information System (JA EHLEIS)
- Network on Health Expectancy (Reseau Esperance de Vie En Sante, REVES)
- European Commission, Eurostat
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Links to Japanese websites in English
- Portal Site of Official Statistics of Japan (e-Stat)
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
- National Institute of Public Health
- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
- Public health recovery after the great east Japan earth quake
- Links to Japanese websites in Japanese
- Portal Site of Official Statistics of Japan (e-Stat)
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
- Health Japan 21 (the second term)
- Public Health Network
Sources & Contacts
- Sources of the Reports
- Study group on future predictions of healthy life expectancy and cost-effectiveness of measures to prevent lifestyle-related disease (PI: Prof. Shuji HASHIMOTO, Fujita Health University School of Medicine)
- Healthy life expectancy parts in the Study group on promoting Health Japan 21 (the second term) (PI: Prof. Ichiro TSUJI, Tohoku Univesity Graduate School of Medicine)
- Study group on social determinants of health (PI: Prof. Toshiyuki OJIMA, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine)
- Administrator of the website
- Prof. Toshiyuki OJIMA (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine)
- e-mail: dph*hama-med.ac.jp (please change * to @ when you use)
- address: Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan