2013 Volume 61 Issue 6 Pages 909-914
The team organized by a diabetologist, a pediatrician, a nationally-registered dietitian, a midwife, a child care worker, a nurse and a physical therapist worked out the concept for a better living support center involved themselves in the establishment of a livelihood betterment center which would evolve around a facility to practice cooking. A mother-and-child support center, a health control support center and a rehabilitation center were set up so that those facilities could be spatially tied in with a support center for improvements in the lifestyle, thereby making it feasible to unfold measures to combat lifestyle-related diseases. The system which centers on the facility to practice cooking presumably made it possible to make progress from “spatial coordination” to “functional coordination.” With this system, it has become feasible to evolve a wide variety of measures in the sectors of health care, medical care and welfare for not just the sick but also people good in health. It is important for hospitals in the future to make contributions in the sectors of health, care and welfare. The system we have discussed here may well serve as a model for contributions by hospitals to their communities.
