[February 2017]
16 – Vaccination against disease – A Year of Local Governments in Japan

In Japan, February is the peak of the cold and flu season. Infants, school children and elders are often inoculated against the flu because they are especially vulnerable to the disease and sometimes infection could lead to more serious conditions.

Japanese local governments do their part to support people during flu season by administering flu shots since one of the most important roles of local government is to promote public health and protect residents from diseases. This is one of the vital reasons for the longevity of Japanese people.

Every prefecture or large city has its own public health centre, which has doctors and nurses specializing in public health. The public health centre is responsible for not only inoculation but also consultation for its residents’ health and checking of food hygiene of restaurants and stalls, which must get licenses to operate from the public health centre.

As you can see, public health centres play a huge role in local governments. As such, whenever decentralisation reform is debated, the size of a city that warrants its own public health centre often becomes a point of contention. Right now, designated cities with populations over 200 thousand operate public health centres and in other regions with lower population numbers, the centres are run by prefectural governments.

 

Katsunori Kamibo

Director

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  •  環境問題への取組を調査するため、7月下旬~8月上旬にかけて滋賀県立彦根工業高等学校の高校生1名および引率者1名がオーストラリアを訪問し、クレアシドニー事務所は、7月29日にはオーストラリアの概要(文化、風習等)についてブリーフィングを実施し、7月31日にはブリスベンの訪問先企業へのアテンド行いました。

    ブリスベンの訪問先においては、カーボンニュートラルの観点から、カギケノリという海藻を用いて畜産動物が排出するメタンガスを減少させる取り組みについての情報を得ることができました。生徒が、将来は自らも環境のための取り組みを実施したいとの思いから、積極的にミーティングに臨んでいる姿が印象的でした。

    当事務所は今回、ブリーフィング及びアテンドのほか、ブリスベンの訪問先企業に対するアポイントメント取得のサポートも行いました。
     クレアシドニー事務所は、今後もオーストラリアでの調査に取り組む日本の自治体の活動を支援していきます。

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