Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration Conference (EROPA 2018)

Globalisation of the Healthcare Services Sector: Employing Foreign Physicians in National Strategic Special Zones in Japan

Authors
Yumi Hinohara
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Yumi Hinohara
Available Online November 2019.
DOI
10.2991/eropa-18.2019.2How to use a DOI?
Keywords
healthcare, foreign physicians, national strategic special zone, denizenship
Abstract

With the continuing increase in the ageing rate of the population, Japan must establish a system for the quan-titative expansion of healthcare services and the improvement of the efficiency of service provision in order to respond to the increasing demand for the provision of healthcare services. In addition to these quantitative needs, the country needs to re-spond to the diversification of healthcare needs. The diversifi-cation of needs requires careful approaches towards changing disease structures and complex needs; healthcare needs that have diversified as a result of the increase in the number of foreign patients give rise to the need for diverse restructuring of the conventional healthcare service system in Japan. Dis-cussing the viewpoint of globalisation which is needed in order for healthcare services in Japan to focus on guaranteeing deni-zenship, this study introduces the following measures as means to respond to the diverse medical needs of residents, including foreigners: development of a system for multilingual healthcare services in medical practice; consideration of the social customs of foreign patients and the lifting of restrictions on foreign doctors practising in the National Strategic Special Zones.

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Volume Title
Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration Conference (EROPA 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-838-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/eropa-18.2019.2How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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