2019 Volume 68 Issue 5 Pages 418-424
Currently, we are making progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) around the world. In this paper, we focus on human resources for health, which is an element of health systems, and we introduce the training courses conducted by the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) for health personnel in Japan and abroad. In the joint training with JICA and NIPH, two training courses, “Health Systems Management” and “Health Policy Improvement,” are conducted for participants from about 10 countries around the world to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), defined as access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential health-care services, medicines and vaccines for all with financial risk protection. In joint training with the WHO Western Pacific Region (WPRO) and NIPH, we have two workshops, “Measures on Non-communicable Diseases” and “Promotion of Medical Quality and Patient Safety.” The two training courses introduced for domestic health personnel , AIDS countermeasures training and child-abuse prevention training, cover topics of the SDGs, and Japan is expected to promote these measures. Specially, it was pointed out by the UN that Japan needs to deal with prevention of child-abuse immediately. All training courses introduced in this paper provides participatory and mutual learning sessions that allow participants to learn what policies and mechanisms should be applied in the field and what we can do from their experiences. The National Institute of Public Health has the strengths to engage in human resource development from both a global perspective and a local perspective.
We will continue to contribute to human resource development by leveraging our strengths in line with changing social needs to achieve the SDGs
