Japan’s Current Health Issues and Health Promotion in the Community Setting: Focus on Public Health Nurses’ Activities

Arakida, Mikako

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Mikako Arakida⁴

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Currently in Japan, 43 446 public health nurses (PHNs) are working at various community settings to promote population health. The national licensing of the PHN is a unique system of Japan. In this chapter, the health promotion activities of PHNs in community settings and health problems that PHNs now confront are introduced. The educational system of PHN is also explained, because the system is changing in Japan.

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School of Nursing and Rehabilitation Science at Odawara, International University of Health and Welfare, 1-2-25 Shiroyama, Odawara, 250-8588, Japan
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Department of Public Health, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, 880 Kitakobayashi, Mibu-machi, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi, 321-0293, Japan
Takashi Muto M.D., Ph.D. (Professor) (Professor)
Department of Public Health and International Health, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
Toshitaka Nakahara M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. (Professor) (Professor)
Healthy City Research Center Institute of Health and Welfare, Yonsei University, 234 Maeji-ri, Heungup-myun, Wounju-si, Gangwon-do, 220-710, Republic of Korea
Eun Woo Nam (Professor) (Professor)

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Arakida, M. (2011). Japan’s Current Health Issues and Health Promotion in the Community Setting: Focus on Public Health Nurses’ Activities. In: Muto, T., Nakahara, T., Nam, E.W. (eds) Asian Perspectives and Evidence on Health Promotion and Education. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53889-9_20

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