Public health education in Japan：the current situations and future / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

  Public health education in Japan has been carried out, on the one hand, as part of professional education for physicians and other medical professionals based on the Constitution of Japan Article 25 and medical professional’s laws introduced in post–world war II, and on the other hand, as part of general education subjects, in which main health problems in each stage of the life is taught in universities throughout Japan. In addition, postgraduate programs （doctoral program） are carried on in order to train public health researchers, while their training is rather specific topic–oriented, but not systematic nor extensive in terms of public health discipline. Recently, because the Japanese society faces new health and medical problems and various environmental risks, the specialist education for new public health discipline has been required. Therefore, a few professional schools （master program）, which is equivalent to schools of public health overseas, have been established in Japan.