Nationwide awareness-raising program for viral hepatitis in Japan: the "

Basic Act on Hepatitis Measures Basic Guidelines on Hepatitis Measures awareness-raising hepatitis

Journal

Global health & medicine
ISSN: 2434-9194
Titre abrégé: Glob Health Med
Pays: Japan
ID NLM: 101771579

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
31 Oct 2021
Historique:
received: 31 05 2021
revised: 01 07 2021
accepted: 06 08 2021
entrez: 16 11 2021
pubmed: 17 11 2021
medline: 17 11 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Chronic viral hepatitis is one of the most widespread infectious diseases in Japan. In the 2009 financial year, the Japanese government enacted the Basic Act on Hepatitis Measures, followed by the Basic Guidelines for Promotion of Control Measures for Hepatitis 2 years later. The guidelines emphasize the importance of provision and dissemination of accurate information on viral hepatitis and public awareness-raising. A subsidy program on hepatitis was therefore launched by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2011, called "

Identifiants

pubmed: 34782873
doi: 10.35772/ghm.2021.01063
pmc: PMC8562092
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Pagination

301-307

Informations de copyright

2021, National Center for Global Health and Medicine.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Tatsuya Kanto received a lecture fee from AbbVie and Gilead Sciences. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Auteurs

Yasue Takeuchi (Y)

Office for Promotion of Hepatitis Measures, Cancer and Disease Control Division, Health Service Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.

Masatsugu Ohara (M)

Office for Promotion of Hepatitis Measures, Cancer and Disease Control Division, Health Service Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National Hospital Organization Hokkaido Medical Center, Hokkaido, Japan.
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan.

Tatsuya Kanto (T)

Hepatitis Information Center, The Research Center for Hepatitis and Immunology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, Japan.

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