TY - JOUR ID - 3265 TI - Universal Health Coverage and Primary Healthcare: Lessons From Japan; Comment on “Achieving Universal Health Coverage by Focusing on Primary Care in Japan: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Bloom, Gerald AD - Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 229 EP - 231 KW - Universal Health Coverage (UHC) KW - Primary Healthcare KW - Politics of Health DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.120 N2 - A recent editorial by Naoki Ikegami has proposed three key lessons from Japan’s experience of achieving virtually universal coverage with primary healthcare services: the need to integrate the existing providers of primary healthcare services into the organised health system; the need to limit government commitments to finance hospital services and the need to empower providers of primary healthcare to influence decisions that influence their livelihoods. Although the context of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) differs in many ways from Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the lesson that short-term initiatives to achieve universal coverage need to be complemented by an understanding of the factors influencing long-term change management remains highly relevant. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3265.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3265_1ac0e8507e9014c0d4abbac49d363fd7.pdf ER -