Japan's Shifting Status in the World and the Development of Japan's Medical Insurance Systems

This book explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s. It closely examines the changes in the systems and the symbiotic relationship between Japan's status in international relations and the development of domestic medical insura...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sugita, Yoneyuki (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Ethnology.
Medicine > History.
Medical Sociology.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
History of Medicine.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law - Toward a Corporatist Framework
  • Chapter 2: The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law - Toward a Corporatist Framework #2: Medical Association
  • Chapter 3: Toward National Mobilization - The Establishment of National Health Insurance
  • Chapter 4: Japan's Epoch-Making Healthcare Reforms of 1942 - Toward Universal Health Coverage
  • Chapter 5: "Isolation" from the International Community and State of "Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend" under the Allied Occupation
  • Chapter 6: Dodge Line
  • Chapter 7: Reexamination of the "Recommendation with Respect to a Social Security System" of 1950
  • Conclusion.

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