To Establish The Center for Designing Social Systems

Project Gist

Towards establishing the Global Center for Designing Social Systems

Keywords

health and social care system, public policy, regional economics, community design, multi-source large-scale database

Background and Purpose

In the super-aging society under low economic growth and financial difficulties in social security, it is really critical how to reform health and social care systems into vitalizing and sustainable ones. For this reform, it is crucially important to visualize the performance of such social systems as health and social care, and also to share this information among all stakeholders.

We have been developing multiple-source large-scale database and analytics to visualize health and social care performance at institutional and regional levels. In addition, to tackle with this multifaceted nature of the problem, we have been collaboratively making efforts to develop innovative approach to social system designs through fusing science and technologies from various relevant disciplines.

This project aims to strengthen a platform for multiple-disciplines to collaborate on research and development, and for relevant stakeholders to collaborate jointly to reconstruct health and social care systems, through visualizing these social systems and promoting evidence-informed policy making.

Project Achievements

We have developed a multi-disciplinary research platform to interact with regional economics, public policy science, government finance, management science and accounting, laws and society, social psychology, community planning, database informatics, artificial intelligence, medicine and public health. Several innovative outcomes were obtained such as technologies of automatic detection of unexpected healthcare events, and of clarifying causal structure of regional performance in long-term care for elderly.

During these processes, we, including young researchers, have strengthened collaborative network with the Japan Stroke Association and dementia supporter caravan for patients and families; Also with international research networks involving researchers in the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and international societies and agencies.

Future Prospects

Our short-term goal is to strengthen the interdisciplinary industry-government-academia alliance, and will establish the Global Center for Designing Social Systems in super-aging societies.

We aim to achieve this by developing social technologies to visualize multi-dimensional performance of regional and institutional systems, pull out and orchestrate active contributions of relevant stakeholders, and advance evidence-informed policy making process. This center is to lead the world in academic researches, contribution to social problem solutions, and generation of innovative young researchers in this emerging field of social systems design in super-aging societies.

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Principal Investigator