- Health policy prioritization
- Identifying the health policy issues that the public truly seeks prioritization of within the confines of limited resources:
“Public Opinion Survey on the Priority of Health Policy”, “Health Policy Conference”
- Public / patient-oriented healthcare
- Reflecting patients’ perspectives more intensively on health policy:
“Health Policy as Desired by Patients” (Cancer-related health policy, heart disease-related health policy, diabetes-related health policy)
- Gender-specific healthcare
- Promoting gender-specific and women’s health, both of which have been overlooked in the past:
“Low Birthrate and Women’s Health”, “Employment of Women and Health Policy”, “Assessment of Women’s Outpatient Services”, “Research on Teenage Abortions and STD Infections”
- Efficient and high-quality healthcare
- Improving and sustaining the efficiency and quality of healthcare in Japan:
“Research on Healthcare Productivity”, “Research on High-Quality Healthcare Services”
- Innovative healthcare for a new era
- Seeking the direction for healthcare in the evolving post-modernization era:
“Technology and Healthcare”, “Regenerative Medicine and Bioethics”
- Global healthcare
- Improving healthcare, a top-priority issue facing humanity, in developing countries as well as developed countries:
“Research on Health Policy in Asia”, “Global Health Study”
- Education on health policy
- Educating healthcare professionals on health policy:
“Health Policy Education for Medical Students and Healthcare Professionals”
- Grants for health policy-related programs
- Providing grants for activities contributing to improved health policy:
“Grant for Publication of Conference Proceedings”
- Symposiums
- Hosting symposiums for a wide public audience featuring key players in health policy as guest speakers of particular themes.
- Policy recommendation
- Defining the ideal policy and providing a broad array of policy options from an independent perspective
- Survey reports
- Conducting research and analysis on significant focus areas in health policy making
- Breakfast meetings
- Inviting health policy experts as guests to periodical breakfast meetings
- Health policy clerkships
- Educating medical students on health policy
- Website
- Periodically providing information on health policy
