UHC law in practice: legal access rights to health care: country profile: Japan

Overview

This country profile on legal access rights to health care has been developed to analyse the capacity of the laws of Japan to deliver universal access to health care. This profile provides an overview of Japan's approach to enshrine access rights in law, including statutory insurance schemes, coverage of different population groups, benefit packages (including legal mechanisms to define benefits and enforce access rights), anti-discrimination provisions (including legal complaint mechanisms), and access barriers to health care.