Health Services
For your children's healthy growth and your family's good health
Issue of the "Mother and Child Health Handbook"(Boshi-techo)
Once you have a certificate of pregnancy from your doctor, please get a copy of the Mother and Child Health Handbook from the Health Center. They have copies in English,Chinese, Korean and Spanish. This notebook contains health information and advice for pregnancy, and is also to record important information about the birth (date and time, name of the hospital or facility, etc.) as well as details of your baby's vaccinations and growth. Always bring it with you to vaccinations and health checks, and please use it to record your child's health.
Health checks for expectant and nursing mothers
At the same time as you are issued with the Mother and Child Health Handbook you will be given the "Mother and Child Health Guide"(Boshihoken-no-Shiori); this entitles you to free health checks for pregnancy and as a nursing mother. Please show it when consulting a doctor at a medical institution within the prefecture. When you have a medical examination outside of the prefecture, you need to pay the full cost.
However, by presenting the receipt and a record of your visit to The Health Center, you will be reimbursed.
Infant health checkups
Please have your child's health checked at 1 month and 11 months at a medical institution within the prefecture. Please show your "Mother and Child Health Guide"when you see the doctor.
We will look at your child's physical and mental development, and will discuss childcare with you.
Health check for 4-month old infants
Place: The Health Center
Time: 13:15-13:45
Details: Physical measurements, consultation with a doctor, childcare advice, baby food sampling
The health check will take about 30 minutes.
Health check for 18-month old infants
Place: The Health Center
Time:13:15-13:45
Details: Physical measurements, consultationwith a doctor and a dentist, advice on tooth-brushing, childcare advice, nutritional advice
The health check will take about 30 minutes.
Health check for 3-year olds
Place: The Health Center
Time:13:15-13:45
Details: Physical measurements, consultationwith a doctor and a dentist, childcare advice, nutritional advice
- Please check your child's eyesight and hearing ability at home before you come.
- Please bring a urine sample taken on the day.
The health check will takeabout 30 minutes.
Vaccinations for children
There are two groups of vaccinations: group vaccinations aregiven at the Health Center, and individual vaccinations aregiven at a medical institution.
Group vaccinations(given at the Health Center)
Polio
Time: 12:45-13:30
Age: Children between 4 months and 7.5 years old.
Notification: When your child is between 3 and 15 months old (separate notifications will be sent out in April and September)
No. of vaccinations: Two
Individual vaccination(s) (given at a medical institution)
Please take the vaccinationslip / pre-examination slip and your Mother and Child Health Handbook, and get the vaccination(s)done at a designated medical institution.
| Preventative Vaccinations |
Age | Time | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BCG | Children aged 3 to 6 months(Under 6 months) | Throughout the year |
Once(*1) | |
| DPT vaccine (pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus) |
First stage (initial vaccination) |
Children aged 3 months (Children under 7 years and 6 months old are accepted) |
3 times(at 20- to 56-day intervals) |
|
| First stage (follow up vaccination) |
Children aged 1 year and 6 months (Children under 7 years and 6 months old are accepted) |
Once | ||
| Measles Rubella |
First stage | 1-year-old children (Children under 2 years old are accepted) |
Once | |
| Second stage |
Older infants |
Once | ||
| Third stage | Persons equivalent to first-year junior high school students (seventh graders) |
Once (between FY2008- 20012) |
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| Fourth stage | Persons equivalent to third-year high school students (twelfth graders) |
Once (between FY2008 -20012) |
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| Japanese Encephalitis (*2) |
First stage (initial vaccination) |
3-year-old children (Children under 7 years and 6 months old are accepted) |
2 times (at 6- to 28-day intervals) |
|
| First stage (follow up vaccination) |
4-year-old children (Children under 7 years and 6 months old are accepted) |
Once | ||
| Second stage | 9-year-old children (Children under 13 years old are accepted) |
Once | ||
| DT vaccine | Second stage | 11-year-old children (Children under 13 years old are accepted) |
Once | |
(*1) Please have your child vaccinatedat a designated medical institution within the specified period.
(*2) If your child is born betweenApril2nd, 2005 to April 1st, 2017, and is non-vaccinated,they can be vaccinated before they turn 20 years old.
Health checks
The city holds "Nonoichi Iki Iki Health Checks" (Mass health checks / Health checks at medical institutions). A voucher is sent in mid-May to people entitled to thehealth check.
A Movie for foreigners in Japan, on how to overcome Pandemic Influenza
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare posted the English version of the pandemic influenza movie on their homepage.
Tips for Coping with Pandemic Influenza(MHLW channel)＜外部リンク＞
