Challenges for People Living with Chronic Health Problems in COVID-19 Epidemic Control-Exploring the Future Structure of InclusiveSociety in Japan

Abstract

gram analysis] As a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection, Japan declared a state of emergency on April 7, 2020, based on the law. All Japanese people were asked to “Self-restraint of unnecessary/unurgent going out.” We decided to try to identify issues in measures for chronic patients, in our telework. The research target is the coverage of “New Coronavirus Measures” and “Disability/Intractable Disease/Welfare” in the programs broadcast by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation),[9] which is a Japanese public broadcaster.As a result, 15 programs were targeted for problem analysis. Furthermore, through watching the program, I theoretically extracted the problem of countermeasures for people living with chronic health problems in COVID-19 epidemic control measures. [Table 1] [10]