Medical Protection Act

Japanese: 医療保護法 - いりょうほごほう
Medical Protection Act

...For this reason, the Relief Act was enacted in 1929, but relief was still discriminatory and limited. When World War II began, legislation was enacted to supplement the Relief Act, such as the Maternal and Child Protection Act, Military Assistance Act, Medical Care Protection Act, and Wartime Disaster Protection Act, but the end of the war marked a sharp increase in the number of people living in poverty, and the prewar decentralized relief system was inefficient and unable to provide appropriate and flexible response measures. As a temporary emergency measure, the government decided on the Guidelines for Emergency Livelihood Assistance for the Living Impoverished, and began providing relief in 1946, while also enacting the (old) Public Assistance Act, which consolidated the existing relief laws and came into effect in October of the same year. ...

*Some of the terminology referenced in the "Medical Protection Act" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…このため1929年救護法が制定されたが,いぜん救済は差別的,制限的なものであった。第2次世界大戦が開始すると母子保護法,軍事扶助法,医療保護法,戦時災害保護法など救護法を補充する立法が行われたが,大戦終了を転機に生活困窮者が急増し,戦前の分散化された救済制度では非能率であり,また適切弾力的な対応措置を講ずることはとうてい不可能であった。そこで政府は臨時応急の措置として生活困窮者緊急生活援護要綱を決定し,46年から救済を行う一方,既存の救済諸法を整備統合した(旧)生活保護法を制定,同年10月から実施した。…

※「医療保護法」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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