Health Care Policy and Macro Health Care Economic System : Microeconomic Approach

在“日本与美国卫生保健制度比较研究”的计划下，我们从1993年开始研究日本的卫生保健制度和服务。在低出生率的老龄化社会中，健康保险制度和退休养老金制度是亟待修改的两个问题，我们的研究重点是日本健康保险制度相关的各种问题。我们现在研究名为“卫生保健政策和宏观医疗经济系统:微观经济学方法”在此期间从2002年到2004年使研究问题,如(1)下的医疗服务需求提供公共和私人医疗保险覆盖面的老年护理,(2)医疗保险和加班工作,(3)私人健康保险在美国和儿童卫生保健服务的需求,和(4)物质使用和我们的习惯。其中一项题为“日本家庭的时间分配研究”的研究被收录在《经济理论中的时间》一书中，这本书收录了近40年来经济学背景下对时间问题最有影响的研究。价值包含了75篇论文，其中一篇就是上面提到的研究，包括诺贝尔奖获得者和世界知名经济学学者的论文。我们还在美国、加拿大和日本举行的各种国际会议上发表了我们的研究成果。

Under the scheme of "Comparative Study of Health Care System between Japan and the United States", we have studied health care system and the services in Japan since 1993. While the health insurance system and the retirement pension system are the two urgent issues to revise given the aged society with low birth rate, our studies have specifically focused on various issues related to the system of health insurance in Japan.Our present study entitled "Health Care Policy and Macro Health Care Economic System : Microeconomic Approach" over the period from 2002 to 2004 made researches on the issues such as (1) the demand for health care services under the provision of public and private health insurances with the coverage of elderly care, (2) health insurance and overtime work, (3) private health insurance in US and the demand for children health care services, and (4) substance use and its habit in US.One of the current studies entitled "A study of time allocation of Japanese households" is included in the book of Time in Economic Theory, which includes most influential studies on the issue on Time in the context of economics over the past forty years. The values contains the 75 papers, one of which is the above mentioned study, including those written by Nobel Prize laureates as well as worldly well-known scholars in the filed of economics.We have also presented our researches at various international conferences held in US, Canada and Japan.