Activity Report of “Project for global growth of medical technologies, systems and services through human resource development”─Synergic effect of development and business through Pubic Private Partnership (PPP) by training programs directly contributing to strengthening health services─ / 国際保健医療

ABSTRACT

  In 2013, the Government of Japan issued “Japan Revitalization Strategy”, in which facilitation of overseas expansion of Japanese drugs, medical equipment, health services, and health system through Public Private Partnership (PPP) is included. In alignment with this strategy, ministries and agencies have initiated on various health project, one of which is “Project for global growth of medical technologies, systems and services through human resource development”funded by the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare from 2015. As an administrative organization of this project, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) has organized 119 project for 4 years from 2015 to 2018. This report summarizes the experiences and the results of evaluation in terms of program management, expansion of introduced health technologies and the health impact. As the results, the overall project management was satisfactory from the viewpoints of varieties of project, the execution rates. Then, health technologies were adopted in the national guidelines or policies and 17 introduced medical products were purchased by local governments. When it comes to health impacts, 19646 health staffs were trained through this program for 4 years and 912334 persons were estimated as beneficiaries by 29 project in 2017. Based on data shown as above, the overall achievement of this program should be considered satisfactory. Since this program is unique among other PPP program in Japan as well as other countries as the program scheme to promote expansion of medical products through human resource development, the experiences should provide some insights about the ways to facilitate PPP in health sector. In order to extract the Tips of good practices for future activities, further analysis on each project is necessary.