World Economic Forum December 21, 2022
Naoko Kutty

  • Japan’s early adoption of universal health coverage has attracted attention from around the world.
  • It is seen in may quarters as one of the foundations of an equitable society.
  • The key challenge is to ensure the funding and HR requirements are in place to make this approach sustainable.

Japan’s early adoption of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has attracted worldwide attention, as it is the country with the longest healthy life expectancy in the world.

One of the reasons for this is that for more than half a century Japan has maintained a health insurance system that all permanent residents of Japan for more than three months are...

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