In Japan, health checkups are mandated by the Industrial Safety and Health Law, requiring individuals to undergo an annual health examination. These examinations include various measurements such as blood tests, chest X-rays and forming the core of general health assessments. Specific health checkups, targeting lifestyle disease prevention, are mandatory for individuals aged 40 to 74.While health checkups provide a general examination of the state of the body, physical examinations provide a detailed examination of the entire body with the aim of early detection of One significant difference between the U.S. and Japan lies in the non-mandatory nature of routine health checkups. While general health checkups exist, they often feature simpler menus and lack items such as chest X-rays or electrocardiogram tests seen in Japanese health examinations. Surprisingly, even in the world’s leading healthcare nation, the popularity of “Ningen-dokku” (medical checkups) is not as widespread as in Japan. Furthermore, it is rare for companies in the U.S. to actively encourage their employees to undergo medical checkups.One of the major reasons for this difference is that group Hello everyone! I am Momoka, a student majoring in Molecular Biology at UCLA. As the year comes to a close, I know many of you have New Year’s resolutions. My goals for this year are to take better care of my health, exercise more often, and eat a healthier and more balanced diet.So how do you maintain and manage your own health? One way is to have regular health checkups. In Japan, health checkups or “Ningen-dokku (medical checkups)” are ingrained practices, but they are not common practice around the world. So, I would like to introduce the difference in awareness of health checkups and physical examinations between the U.S. and Japan in this issue.“diseases without subjective symptoms” and “abnormalities in the body that may cause diseases in the future”. For this reason, in physical examinations, more items can be examined and more precise tests can be performed than those for health checkups. Unlike medical checkups, there is no obligation to undergo a physical examination once a year, so it is often done privately, and the cost is basically self-paid. However, some companies offer a system to partially or fully cover the cost of physical examinations as a benefit package.medical examinations are not familiar in American society and culture. In Japan, it is common for students to undergo medical checkups together at school, and for working adults to regularly participate in comprehensive medical checkups (physical examinations) recommended by their companies. In the U.S., where individualism is strong and individual health care is emphasized, there are no regular medical checkups; rather, they are conducted appropriately based on an individual’s physical condition and age, and are carried out in cooperation with one’s doctor and health care provider. In Japan In the U.S.Momoka Nakamura University of California, Los Angeles 3Health Checkups and Physical Examination in the U.S. and Japan
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