ササキ　トシユキ   Sasaki Toshiyuki   佐々木　寿之    所属   医学部 医学科（東京女子医科大学病院）    職種   講師
論文種別	総説
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
招待の有無	招待あり
表題	Current trends in health insurance systems: OECD countries vs. Japan.
掲載誌名	正式名：Neurologia medico-chirurgica 略　 称：Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo) ISSNコード：(1349-8029)0470-8105(Linking)
巻・号・頁	55(4),pp.267-275
著者・共著者	Sasaki Toshiyuki, Izawa Masahiro, Okada Yoshikazu
発行年月	2015/04
概要	Over the past few decades, the longest extension in life expectancy in the world has been observed in Japan. However, the sophistication of medical care and the expansion of the aging society, leads to continuous increase in health-care costs. Medical expenses as a part of gross domestic product (GDP) in Japan are exceeding the current Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average, challenging the universally, equally provided low cost health care existing in the past. A universal health insurance system is becoming a common system currently in developed countries, currently a similar system is being introduced in the United States. Medical care in Japan is under a social insurance system, but the injection of public funds for medical costs becomes very expensive for the Japanese society. In spite of some urgently decided measures to cover the high cost of advanced medical treatment, declining birthrate and aging population and the tendency to reduce hospital and outpatients' visits numbers and shorten hospital stays, medical expenses of Japan continue to be increasing.
DOI	10.2176/nmc.ra.2014-0317
PMID	25797778