22Health Checkups and Healthcare Advice with a Particular Focus
on the Metabolic Syndrome in Communities: Toward Evidence / Theory-based
Practices and Professionals’ Capacity Building
Yoshiharu FUKUDA, Hirohisa IMAI
Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health

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The Tokutei Kenshin Hoken Shido the Health Checkups and Healthcare Advice with a Particular Focus on theMetabolic Syndrome will start in April 2008. The program aims to decrease the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome, andconsequently to reduce health expenditure for related diseases. There is debate on the criteria of the metabolic syndrome, lackof resources, effectiveness of the program, and attainability of objectives. However, the program includes some innovative
aspects such as promoting marketing of preventive medicine, professional training, and encouraging evidence-based medicine
and scientific research related to health promotion and public health.
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