This page will provide further links and information from awareness month.
- Advanced directive document
- https://medicine.umich.edu/sites/default/files/content/downloads/99-10048_AdvanceDirectives_Booklet%28Japanese%29.pdf (in English and Japanese)
- https://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(12)00276-X/pdf Advanced directive in Japanese nursing homes, journal article (English)
- Cardiac issues in Japan
- https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/circj/advpub/0/advpub_CJ-18-1002/_html/-char/en – Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Chart by Dietary Factors in Japan (in English)
- https://www.jhf.or.jp/ – The Japanese heart foundation (Japanese only)
- COPD awareness
- https://www.copd-jp.com/life/howto_meal.html (in Japanese)
- https://www.j-breath.jp/ (in Japanese)
- https://www.who.int/respiratory/copd/en/ (multiple languages)
- Diabetes
- https://idf.org international diabetes federation
- http://www.jds.or.jp/ The Japanese diabetes society (information in English and Japanese)
- https://www.nittokyo.or.jp/ The Japanese association for diabetes and care (in Japanese only)
- https://jsdc.jp/ The Japanese society of diabetic complications (Japanese only)
- Japanese cancer society
- https://www.jcancer.jp/ Most information is in Japanese with only 1 fact sheet in English
- Organ donation in Japan
- https://www.green-ribbon.jp/think/ – awareness campaign (in Japanese)
- https://www.jotnw.or.jp/transplant/wish/ -Japanese organ transplantation network (mostly in Japanese)
- Palliative care
- http://www.jspm.ne.jp/journal/index.html – The Japanese society for palliative medicine- mostly in Japanese with extremely limited information in English.
- https://n-hha.com/- The Japanese home hospice association. Mostly in Japanese with some articles in English.
- https://www.hospat.org/index.html – The Japanese Hospice Palliative care foundation- mostly in Japanese with extremely limited information in English.
- https://www.hpcj.org/index.html- Hospice palliative care Japan- mostly in Japanese with extremely limited information in English.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tyl7dOU82g A video of palliative care in the Asia-pacific region (in English with Japanese subtitles) [not an easy watch]
- Parkinson’s disease article reference
- Yoritaka, Asako & Fukae, Jiro & Hatano, Taku & Oda, Eisei & Hattori, Nobutaka. (2016). The Direct Cost of Parkinson Disease at Juntendo Medical University Hospital, Japan. Internal Medicine. 55. 113-119. 10.2169/internalmedicine.55.4484.
- Vaccination Schedule Recommended by the Japan Paediatrics Society
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