Social Security Law Policy

Faculty

M. Iwamura
K. Shimazaki

Description

Today, the evolution of Social Security Law Policy is highly considerable because of economic and social changes resulting from aging society, decreasing fecundity, stagnation of economic growth, globalization of economy, etc. As social security schemes have direct influences on people’s ordinary life and on economic activities of country, their weight is really important among government’s public policies.

In this course, the most recent trends of Japanese social security law policy will be presented and analyzed, especially by inviting several officers of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

This course will start by Introduction examining the matters such as social security and economy, social security and demography as well as comparatives studies on social security policy. This Introduction will be followed by case studies of recent reforms accomplished or prepared in three mains fields of social security policy ― compulsory sickness insurance and health care, compulsory retirement pension and social services including care of dependent elder people.

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