# Policy System (Fundamental Goals, Grand Measure Goals, and Measure Goals)

March 2012

Fundamental Goal I Ensuring the people’s belief and trust in medical care and promotion of the people’s health promotion efforts

Grand Measure Goal 1	Establishment of a system through which the necessary medical services can be provided in local communities
1-1	Establishment of a system through which high quality and appropriate medical care can be provided in daily living areas
Grand Measure Goal 2	Securing the necessary medical professionals and improving their quality
2-1	Securing medical professionals that can meet future medical demands
2-2	Putting the effort into improving the quality of medical professionals
Grand Measure Goal 3	Promotion of provision of efficient, safe, and high quality medical services from the point of view of users
3-1	Promotion of development of information-oriented medical care systems
3-2	Promotion of medical safety security measures
Grand Measure Goal 4	Promotion of medical services that need to be implemented by the government based on medical policies (policy based medical services)
4-1	Improvement and even distribution of policy based medical services
Grand Measure Goal 5	Prevention/avoidance of diseases that are threatened human health such as infectious diseases and securing the necessary medical care for infected patients, etc.
5-1	Prevention of the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases
5-2	Improvement of preventive measures/treatment of particular diseases with no established treatment, etc.
5-3	Promotion of appropriate transplantation therapy
5-4	Help for the atomic bomb survivors, etc.
Grand Measure Goal 6	Enabling the people to appropriately use high quality, effective, and safe drugs/medical devices
6-1	Enabling the prompt provision of highly effective and safe drugs/medical devices
6-2	Strict drug, etc. quality measures and the promotion of safety measures for drugs, etc.
6-3	Promotion of the appropriate use of drugs
Grand Measure Goal 7	Stable provision of safe blood products
7-1	Securing healthy blood donors and improving the safety of blood products through promotion of domestic self-support and appropriate use
Grand Measure Goal 8	Promotion of the development of new drugs/medical devices and the pharmaceutical industry, etc.
8-1	Promotion of the development of new drugs/medical devices and the pharmaceutical industry, etc.
Grand Measure Goal 9	Establishment of stable/efficient health care insurance systems that ensure the provision of necessary medical care for everyone
9-1	Establishment of stable/efficient health care insurance systems
9-2	Putting the effort into reducing medical fees over the medium- to long-term through implementing life style disease measures and eliminating unnecessary long-term hospitalization
Grand Measure Goal 10	Promotion of health promotion efforts of the people across a wide range of age groups from pregnant/parturient women and children through to the elderly at various places, including local communities and workplaces, etc.
10-1	Maintenance/improvement of health of local residents and securing local health care systems that enable local residents to live without any undue worries
10-2	Extension of healthy years of life through improving lifestyles, etc. and decreasing the number of deaths from cancer
10-3	Promotion of safe and secure workplace creation (refer to Measure Goal 2-1 of Fundamental Goal III)
10-4	Enhancement of maternal and child health measures (refer to Measure Goal 5-1 of Fundamental Goal VI)