Research evidence is essential for the development of family medicine as a discipline in the Japanese healthcare system

BJGP Open. 2019 Jul 23;3(2):bjgpopen19X101650. doi: 10.3399/bjgpopen19X101650. Print 2019 Jul.

Makoto Kaneko^{1

2}, Ai Oishi³, Yoshinori Matsui^{4

5}, Junichiro Miyachi^{4

5}, Takuya Aoki⁶, Maria Mathews⁷

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan makotok@hama-med.ac.jp.
² GP, Shizuoka Family Medicine Programme, Akatsuchi, Kikugawa, Shizuoka, Japan.
³ PhD Student, Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ GP, Azai-higashi Clinic, Nagahama, Shiga, Japan.
⁵ GP, The Hokkaido Centre for Family Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan.
⁶ Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
⁷ Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine, London, ON, Canada.

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Keywords: Family medicine; Japan; health care system.