Minutes of the 4th Workplace Health Promotion Review Meeting
Overview
At a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare review meeting, a revised draft report reflecting the previous discussion was deliberated. The proposed direction included expanding health promotion measures to secondary prevention, such as cancer screening; support for balancing treatment and work; voluntary use of PHRs; quality control; and cooperation with municipalities, health insurers, and other organizations. The draft report was essentially approved. The chair and secretariat will make necessary revisions and publish it.
Key points
- The draft report was revised based on the previous discussion and was essentially approved.
- A direction was presented to expand health promotion measures to secondary prevention, such as cancer screening.
- The wording was revised to encourage workers to use PHRs and digital tools voluntarily.
- Quality control was explained as including a series of procedures from selecting eligible people through understanding the results of diagnostic examinations.
Overview
The Occupational Health Division of the Safety and Health Department of the Labour Standards Bureau discussed the draft report at the 4th Workplace Health Promotion Review Meeting. The draft presented a direction for positioning workplace initiatives within cooperation with public health authorities, municipalities, health insurers, and other organizations.
Impact
The report's direction calls for the THP guideline to include secondary prevention, such as cancer screening; support for balancing treatment and work; and cooperation with insurers and local communities. After the report is published, awareness efforts among relevant stakeholders are planned.
Details
The revisions included managing processes and procedures for health checkups and screenings, in addition to the accuracy of individual tests. The wording on PHRs encouraged workers to voluntarily use digital tools and other means to understand their own lifelong health and medical information and connect it to health promotion.
For quality control, a concept was presented to verify and improve the selection of people eligible for screening, explanations and recommendations to undergo screening, testing and assessment, determination of the need for diagnostic examinations, explanation of results, understanding screening participation rates for diagnostic examinations and their results, and instructions for the next screening as one integrated program.
A concept was presented to explain quality control in guides and other materials and to provide guidance on how to choose health screening institutions that undertake these efforts. The report will be published after confirmation by the chair and is scheduled to be reported to the Safety and Health Subcommittee of the Labour Policy Council.