Abstract
To consider how our university should implement functions of contributing to the community in the future, we examined the functions that single-faculty public universities of nursing and medical care in other prefectures serve their local communities, investigated the status of collaborations, and identified their characteristics.
We targeted 20 single-faculty public universities of nursing and medical care (excluding our own university), and data such as the status of collaboration related to community contribution were collected from case study descriptions of community contribution programs published by the Japan Association of Public Universities and from information posted on each university's official website.
The program case studies revealed that Assure functions were implemented in all the universities, and 17universities had implemented them together with Link functions. Both of these functions link values and knowledge of people's health and lifestyles, and contribute to building a sustainable and safe community. Furthermore, we believe that the addition of Enhance and Develop functions could enable universities and communities to mutually revitalize one another from the perspective of developing human resources needed in the community and creating attractive communities. In order for these functions to be implemented, multidisciplinary cooperation and collaboration is needed, and universities are expected to play a key role.
