{"id":987524672,"date":"2021-04-12T03:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/how-japans-universal-health-care-system-led-to-covid-19-success\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:27:00","slug":"how-japans-universal-health-care-system-led-to-covid-19-success","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/how-japans-universal-health-care-system-led-to-covid-19-success\/","title":{"rendered":"How Japan\u2019s Universal Health Care System led to COVID 19 Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan<\/a> has seen very low mortality rates due to COVID 19 despite a rapidly ageing population owing to universal health insurance<\/a>, a uniform fee schedule and a no-gatekeeping system. The combination ensures affordable access to health services for everyone living in the country.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While the <\/a>Universal Health Insurance<\/a> is, in essence universal to the entire population, a uniform fee schedule puts a cap on healthcare costs in the 80 percent of medical facilities that are privately owned. This is made possible by tax-based public financing that covered all the costs for tests and treatments. Not having to worry about the cost of treatment improved reporting rates resulting in early detection and isolation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s response is evidence that \u2018a crisis response will not be effective without also strengthening the underlying health system itself.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All nations should have universal health care<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Pragmatic Approach to COVID-19 Testing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

When the Virus Hit, Japan Already Had an Army of Contact Tracers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Read the full new article originally published in The Diplomat here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Image credits: Japan Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan has seen very low mortality rates due to COVID 19 despite a rapidly ageing population owing to universal health insurance, a uniform fee schedule and a no-gatekeeping system. The combination ensures affordable access to health services for everyone living in the country. While the Universal Health Insurance is, in essence universal to the entire population, a uniform fee schedule…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[115,124,132,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}