title: [To aim at better home medical care].
abstract: As Japan has been confronting rapid aging of the population, the government is promoting home medical care, with reforming medical service policy, offering subsidies, and revising payment system of medical service. Hereafter, home medical care will play an important role in order to build the integrated community care system by cooperating with long-term care services. More physicians, not only of specialized clinics, but also of general ones, are expected to visit home to provide medical service to their own immobile patients.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
authors.forename: Michiaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagura
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006308:Health Systems Plans / Q000639:trends; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000639:trends