Health Policy and Law : Policies concerning Health Care

Abstract

The 121^<st> symposium of the Japanese Association of Law and Political Science was held at the Okayama University Shikayama campus from 14:00 to 17:30 on November 15,2014. The unifying theme of this symposium, the second symposium of the series, was "Prescriptions for Our Nation's Policy Challenges." The symposium discussed problems from the perspective of health policy and law, including regional medical care, medical care information, home health care, lifestyle-related diseases, oral hygiene, perinatal medical care, emergency medicine, infectious diseases countermeasures, and rising medical costs. The presenters were Dr.Manabu Morita(Okayama University), Dr. Tsuyoshi Awaya (Okayama University), Dr. Kazutaka Kojima (Chubu Gakuin University), and Dr. Koichi Setoyama (Osaka University).