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

日本是一个老龄化迅速的社会，在当前的国家政策“健康日本21世纪”下，建立维持和/或改善老年人生活功能的地方系统并将其扩展为地方措施是非常重要的。“在过去的七年里，我们一直在与茨木县的太阳村合作建立这样一个系统。本文介绍了去年7月1日成立筑波健康研究有限公司的背景信息，并介绍了该研究项目的成果。筑波大学创业的目的，是为了在需要普及的时代，促进太阳村的研究成果在全国范围内的普及。在本研究中，我们启动了两个阶段的研究项目，研究地方老龄化对策。第一阶段为期三年开始，第二阶段，也计划为期三年。这个项目是这样安排的，因为科学技术厅（现为文部科学省）将“关于维持和改善老年人生活机能的地方制度的研究”作为一项新课题，我们提出了“关于生活需求的研究”生活和社会基础设施研究的小类，由科学和技术促进赠款补贴。按传统的学习范畴，研究小组可分为“体能训练”及“公共生”两类，而这项计划基本上是以长者为对象，因为他们当中约有七成至八成是不需要协助或照顾的。使这一社会群体更健康和更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.