Nurturing Medical Care - Ikuseiiryo

…The national government is usually the payer for publicly funded medical care, and when publicly funded medical care is provided independently by local governments, it is sometimes called welfare medical care and distinguished from national publicly funded medical care. Depending on its nature, publicly funded medical care can be classified into economic security medical care (medical assistance under the Public Assistance Law), social defense medical care (medical care under the Infectious Diseases Prevention Law, Tuberculosis Prevention Law, Mental Health and Welfare Law (formerly Mental Hygiene Law), Maternal Protection Law (formerly Eugenic Protection Law), etc.), disaster compensation medical care (atomic bomb medical care under the Law on Medical Care for Atomic Bomb Victims, war-wounded medical care under the Special Assistance Law for War-Wounded and Sick Persons, pollution medical care under the Pollution Health Damage Compensation Law), and social welfare medical care (nurturing medical care for premature infants under the Maternal and Child Health Law, upbringing medical care for physically disabled children under the Child Welfare Law, rehabilitation medical care under the Welfare Law for the Physically Disabled, and elderly medical care under the Health Care for the Elderly Law). In addition, medical care for specific diseases such as SMON and Behçet's disease, which have unknown causes or no established treatment, is also a type of publicly funded medical care. …

*Some of the terminology used in this article is related to "developmental medical care."

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…公費負担医療の負担者は通常は国であり，地方自治体が独自に行う公費負担医療の場合，それを福祉医療と呼んで国の公費負担医療と区別することがある。　公費負担医療はその性格によって，経済保障医療(生活保護法による医療扶助)，社会防衛医療(伝染病予防法，結核予防法，精神保健福祉法(旧精神衛生法)，母体保護法(旧優生保護法)などによる医療)，災害補償的医療(〈原子爆弾被害者の医療等に関する法律〉による原爆医療，戦傷病者特別援護法による戦傷病者医療，公害健康被害補償法による公害医療)，社会福祉医療(母子保健法による未熟児に対する養育医療，児童福祉法による身体障害児に対する育成医療，身体障害者福祉法による更生医療，老人保健法による老人医療)などに分類される。このほか，原因が不明であったり，治療法の確立していないスモン，ベーチェット病などの特定疾患に対する難病対策医療も，公費負担医療の一つである。…

※「育成医療」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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