An International
Cooperation on Holistic Approach in the Age of Civil Society
~ A Clearing House for Asian Neighbors Network ~
The Objectives
The above subject is oriented towards the development of international
study project among the five Asian countries such as Thailand, Malaysia,
China and Korea including Japan. Our proposal on study project is
planning to submit for ﾒAsian Neighborﾕs Networkﾓ of Toyota Foundation,
Japan. (the deadline is May 20, 2003).
The Structure and Function
of Our Project
The original idea for the study proposal has been proposed to
our expectant collaborators through Dr.Maruchi, principal investigator
for the above project who is a consultant of the above institute.
Mrs. K.Masuda, secretary general, is an executive staff of Yadokari-no-sato.
Therefore, the clearing house is located at the Yadokari institute
for Mental Health, being affiliated with ﾒYadokari-no-sato for community-based
mental health agency in Saitama City, Japan.
Our home page should be shown in the below. For the promotion
of our communication, there should be the four major internet channels
such as a) e-mail, b)the introduction of mailing list, c) bulletin
or web board system, and d) e-conference or symposium.
http://www.yadokarinosato.org/research/index.html
The below is our expectant members
for the present project at the initial stage of system formation;
1.Thailand; Dr.Khanitta (Community Nursing, Khonkaen Univesity Faculty
of Nursing), Dr.Boosaba (Health Education, Mahidol University Faculty
of Public Health), Mr.Boonnart (Medical Education, Chulalongkorn
University Faculty of Medicine)
2.Malaysia: Dr.Jaafa and Dr.Azim (Medical Education, School of Medical
Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia)
3.China; Drs.Zahng Bing and Wei Ning, Prof. Jun Ru (Hebei Medical
University)
4.Prof.Moon (health policy, School of Public health, Seoul National
University)
5.Japan; Dr.Matsuda (community nursing, School of nursing, Shizuoka
Prefectural University), Dr.Moriyama (Public Health, School of Medicine,
Fukuoka University), Dr.Tanaka (health administration, Tokyo Metropolitan
Office) , Dr. Hiromi Shiraishi ( Department
of Mental Health Services, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry ）
The Four Major Study Areas on Holistic Approach
in the Project
As Maruchi announced before, He was unexpectedly exposed to SARS
epidemics in Beijing last month. This experience should be however
a good subject matter for holistic approach from the viewpoint of
human centeredness.
By chance, he was notified through an internet system in Japan
that e-symposium on SARS epidemics would be organized on May 20,
2003 for which we were requested to submit two pages of abstract
for presentation. In order to meet the above procedure, they said
that May 5, 2004 should be the deadline of submission for the abstract.
So he had a hard work for the preparation of abstract And finally
he submitted the abstract to the secretariat of the symposium.
This exercise was also very good for the visualization of our
preparation of study proposal to Toyota Foundation. SARS epidemics
was subject matters for the discussion on the feasibility study
of similar community surveillance system such as AIDS prevention
and control, mental health and welfare system, health promotion
system and so on from the viewpoint of self control in human settlement.
