Study on sending and receiving system of nurses and careworkers in Southeast Asia: Mainly with the cases of Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Japan

本研究旨在分析日本与东南亚医疗卫生人力的派遣和接收问题，主要以经济伙伴关系协定（EPA）模式下的印尼和菲律宾护士和护理人员为研究对象。在印度尼西亚、越南和泰国进行了案例研究，并与菲律宾作为卫生人力派遣国的先前模式进行了比较。由于疾病结构、教育制度、职业设计文化、所谓的农民工文化（行为）以及语言的差异，这些国家在农民工数量尚未大幅增加的情况下，促进了派遣，加强了教育和执照制度。

This study aims to analyze sending and receiving problems of medical and health workforce between Japan and Southeast Asia, mainly focusing on Indonesian and Phillipine nurses and careworkers under the EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement) schema. Researches as case study were conducted in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand, in comparison with the Philippines as the prior model of sending country of health workforce. Those countries promote the sending and strengthen the education and license system, though the number of the migrant workers has not increased yet drastically, because of differences on disease structure, educational system, and culture of career design, and so-called culture (behavior) of migrant workers, as well as of language.