Japan's COVID-19 response: underutilized beds and misused funds

Front Public Health. 2023 Oct 2:11:1277746. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1277746. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yoshika Saito^{1

2}, Akihiko Ozaki^{1

3}, Tetsuya Tanimoto¹, Morihito Takita^{1

4}, Masahiro Kami¹

Affiliations

¹ Medical Governance Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
² Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
³ Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Japan.
⁴ Navitas Clinic Tachikawa, Department of Internal Medicine, Tachikawa, Japan.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Japan; health economics; public health; resource allocation.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Financial Management*
Humans
Japan
Population Dynamics

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that no financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.