Construction of e-health system as regional healthy improvememt plan using IT

日本是一个迅速老龄化的社会，建立维持和/或改善老年人生活功能的地方系统，并根据目前的“健康日本21世纪”国家政策，将这些系统扩展到地方措施中，这一点非常重要。在过去的七年里，我们一直在与茨城县太洋村的一个联合项目中建立这样一个系统。本文介绍了筑波健康研究有限公司于去年7月1日成立的背景，并介绍了该研究项目的成果。这项创投业务起源于筑波大学，目的是在迫切需要传播的时候，促进Taiyo村的这些研究成果在全国范围内的传播。在这项研究中，我们启动了一个两阶段的研究项目，研究当地的老龄化对策。第一阶段持续三年，第二阶段也计划持续三年。由于科学技术厅（现为教育文化体育科学技术部）将“维持和改善老年人生活功能的地方体系研究”作为新课题，我们在科技促进基金资助的生活和社会基础设施研究的小类别中提出了“生活需求研究”，因此本项目的结构是这样的。根据传统的学习领域，研究小组可以分为“体育训练”和“公共卫生”。该项目基本上是针对老年人的，因为这些人中约有70%至80%不需要帮助或照顾。使这一社会群体更加健康和富有生产力将确保社会保持活跃。然而，如果不能保持足够的健康和生产力水平，就会降低社会活力，使社会更加不健康，这将导致医疗费用飙升。

In Japan, which is a rapidly aging society, it is very important to build local systems for maintaining and/or improving life functions for the aged and to extend these into local measures under the current national policy of "Healthy Japan 21." For the past seven years, we have been building up such a system in a joint project with Taiyo Village in Ibaraki Prefecture. This paper introduces background information regarding the establishment of Tsukuba Wellness Research Co. Ltd. on July 1 of last year and presents the achievements of this research project. The purpose of this venture business originating at Tsukuba University is to facilitate the spread of these research results from Taiyo Village throughout the nation at a time when such dissemination is strongly demanded.In this study, we initiated is a two-phase research project dealing with local countermeasures against aging. Phase I lasted for three years beginning, and Phase II, also scheduled to last for three years. This project was structured in this way because the Science and Technology Agency (presently the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) took up "A study about a local system of maintaining and improving the life functions for the aged" as a new subject, and we proposed "Research about Life Needs" among the minor categories of life and social infrastructure studies subsidized by science and technology promotion grants. The research teams can be classified as "physical training" and "public hygiene" according to the conventional areas of learning.The project was basically targeted at aged people because about 70% to 80% of these individuals do not require assistance or care. Making this social group healthier and more productive will ensure that society remains active. However, failing to maintain adequate levels of heath and productivity will reduce social vitality and make society more unhealthy, which will result in soaring medical expenses.