Chapter IV.Building the Foundations for Daily Life (health, medical care and welfare necessary to ensure a high quality of life for persons with disabilities)
Section 2.Measures for Health and Medical Care
Chapter IV.Building the Foundations for Daily Life (health, medical care and welfare necessary to ensure a high quality of life for persons with disabilities)
Section 2.Measures for Health and Medical Care
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To prevent and detect diseases leading to disabilities at an early stage, prenatal/postnatal health examinations, mass screening for genetic metabolic disorders, and health examinations for infants are provided. Perinatal intensive care units and perinatal centers for mothers and children at national university hospitals have been established to offer perinatal medical care.
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Rehabilitation and developmental medical treatment are provided to alleviate and eliminate physical disabilities, rehabilitation and other departments have been established in national university hospitals, and in-patient medical care has been provided for children and persons with progressive muscular dystrophy in national hospitals and sanatoriums.
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Among the measures for mental health and welfare are the use of public funds to cover the medical expenses of legally sheltered inpatients and the provision of psychiatric day care services to persons with mental disabilities staying at home. Mental health and welfare counseling are also offered, and public health nurses visit the homes of persons with mental disabilities to offer guidance.
(Principal measures implemented)
- A draft of a law for the medical care and treatment of those who have done serious harm to others under a state of mental unsoundness was submitted to the National Diet in March 2002 with the aim of improving the condition of such persons, preventing a recurrence of similar behavior, and helping their social rehabilitation.
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