Introduction
Our mission is to contribute to the improvement of the quality, efficiency and equity of health systems by means of research, development, education and relevant professional activities. To solve problems and create values in healthcare systems, we fully interact with practice and policy fields and innovatively apply multi- and inter-disciplinary fields of quantitative and qualitative sciences and technologies. |
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Education & Training |
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Human Resource Development Policy |
The human resource development activities of the Department, particularly for the graduate students in this major, aim to nurture highly professional leaders in this emerging field of healthcare quality, economics, management and policy. The Department emphasizes the interaction of research with healthcare systems and policies and development for the real-world application. One of the goals in view is to produce research and development outputs for resource- and quality-based healthcare financing system. |
Programs |
The Department provides several course works related to the following research and professional activities. Their styles are combinations of small-group works, problem-solving works, study critique, lectures, systematic reviews, and case studies. Project-based activities are also very effective to develop skills and competency really necessary for one's professional career.
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Members |
Research and Development |
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Research Activities |
The focused areas of the Department research are as follows: |
1: Evaluation of quality and efficiency of health care process and outcome |
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2: Management system, especially quality and safety management system, in health care |
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3: Population-based assessment of health status, health care and healthcare resource |
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4: Analysis of health systems |
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"Soft" Technology and System Development |
The uniqueness of the Department is that, jointly with the type of research which will result in academic publications, we also develop "soft" technologies and systems for quality and efficiency of health care which will be in actual use in the real world. The strength in the Department includes the fact that we have established the basic foundation for the above activities. Nationwide and multi-institutional databases, so-called "Big Data", also contribute to facilitate the speed and the depth of the research/development and training. The Department has invested a lot and long term in these areas. In many cases we collaborate with people and organizations outside our institution and academic area. The examples of such on-going development programs are as follows:
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Future Directions |
The Department has the following directions and goals to achieve the mission. |
Human Resource Development |
To produce, in succession, and support highly-qualified researchers who leads the emerging area of health care quality, economics, policy and management and highly-qualified managers/directors who directly commit themselves in the new arena of the improvement of systems of health care; To develop a productive and mutually growing network with those inside and outside to improve health and health care system through the expertise of the network member; To systematize, improve and establish the education and training systems for academic and management works. |
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Research and Development Output |
To produce academic research outputs contributory to health systems improvement through establishing more productive work systems and more effective collaborative networks; To develop "soft technologies" in succession on a stable basis which are to be actually and effectively implemented in the health policies and systems - examples are healthcare performance indicators, casemix classification and severity adjustment methodology, quality and safety management standards for accreditation, costing manuals for health care; To be a productive research team internationally renowned in the area of health care quality, economics, policy and management. |
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