Rethinking Health Care at Home and Abroad: Lancet RH Western Pacific Special | JACC Baran

Host Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, welcomes Shuhei Nomura, PhD (Tohoku University), Lisa Yamasaki, MD (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), and Haruka Sakamoto, MD, PhD (St. Luke’s International Hospital) to discuss two policy reviews published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. Fifteen years after the 2011 Lancet Japan Series, Japan faces population aging, rising long-term care needs, workforce shortages, financial pressures, and a rapidly changing global health environment. The episode explores how Japan can shift from hospital-centered care toward prevention and community-based care while also rethinking its role in global health. The guests discuss why domestic reform and international collaboration must increasingly move together, and what Japan can learn from its neighbors as it prepares for 2040.