Abstract
Integration of health care and long-term care has come to be promoted by Japanʼs national governmentas a part of policy measures to build an integrated care system at a local government or municipality level. To evaluate the policy, it is important to monitor how the local governments or the municipalities utilize the statutory survey data and other administrative data on medical, health, and long-term care, incorporating them to develop the measure for the integrated care system. In this paper, we, the research team of the Department of Health and Welfare Services, National Institute of Public Health, report the results of our nationwide survey on data utilization by the local government for building a community based integrated care system, which was conducted in January of 2015 as part of the research project supported by the Health Labour Sciences Research Grant. The results suggest that empirical datautilization for an evidence-based program design and evaluation has not yet spread in the municipalities. The results also showed that few administrative data, accumulated in preventive care and medical care sections, have been utilized in the long-term care sections in municipalities. Currently, the integration of health care and long-term care at the level of data utilization is far from realization. Our survey results are to be the baseline for monitoring and evaluating the development of heath care and long-term care integration in local governments.
