[MHLW] Report of the Study Group on the Establishment of a Community-based Integrated Care System which also Supports Persons with Mental Illness

On March 18th, 2021, MHLW published its "Report of the Study Group on the Establishment of a Community-based Integrated Care System which also Supports Persons with Mental Illness – Aiming to Realize an Inclusive Community where Everyone can Live in their Own Ways with Peace of Mind”. The study group was set up on March 18th, 2020, in response to a suggestion by the “Study Group on the Future of Mental Health, Medical Care, and Welfare” that further promotion of multi-layered cooperation is necessary to construct a Community-based Integrated Care System. The report was compiled after 9 meetings, and its table of contents is as follows.

  1. Introduction
  2. Basic matters related to the establishment of a Community-based Integrated Care System which also supports persons with mental illness.
  1. Basic concept of the system
  2. Basic concept of multi-layered cooperation and its construction
  3. Raising public awareness of the system
  1. Elements making up the system
  1. Community mental health and disability welfare
  2. Psychiatric care
  3. Housing support and its coordination with related parties
  4. Activities for the creation of connected communities and the promotion of social participation
  5. Persons with mental illness and their supporters
  6. Family members of persons with mental illness
  7. Human resource development

The study group has a working group which focuses on the development of the psychiatric emergency medical system; the report of this working group is also available. For further information, please visit the following link (Japanese only). https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/shingi2/0000152029_00003.html

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