Ide Kazushige, Kawaguchi Kenjiro, Kondo Katsunori, Katagiri Daisuke, Nakagomi Atsushi
Department of Community Building for Well-Being, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University.
Department of Social Preventive Medical Sciences, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University.
Nihon Koshu Eisei Zasshi. 2025 Jul 9. doi: 10.11236/jph.24-120.
Objectives The Health Japan 21 initiative (third term) requires establishing an environment that allows people of all ages to lead healthy lives without excessive exertion. Such environments should be created by local governments, in collaboration with multiple stakeholders. Such initiatives carry the potential for collective impact, wherein multiple stakeholders with varying perspectives work together to solve societal challenges. However, research institutions rarely join backbone organizations to direct such collective impacts in Japan. Herein, we describe the first year (2023) of the health community development initiatives conducted by the Department of Community Building for Well-being, jointly established by the Center for Preventive Medical Sciences of Chiba University and Iwabuchi Pharmaceutical Co. in Yotsukaido City (Chiba Prefecture), and aim to demonstrate their results, achievements, challenges, and future prospects, in line with the concept of collective impact.Methods The results, achievements, and challenges related to the initiatives were organized in alignment with the five conditions of collective success: backbone support organizations, continuous communication, mutually-reinforcing activities, common agendas, and shared measurement systems.Results We established a joint research department in April 2023, and hosted a commemorative symposium to establish it. We then organized 15 lectures focused on health community development. We collaborated with several companies, Yotsukaido City, local residents, and community organizations. We ultimately launched the "Yotsuba Project" through the various initiatives undertaken in 2023. This project emphasizes collaboration between multiple stakeholders.Conclusion Through our activities in 2023, we established an operational structure with the main team from Chiba University and Iwabuchi Pharmaceutical Co. as the backbone support organizations. Through continuous communication, a network was established between multiple stakeholders, including Yotsukaido City. Various examples of collaboration between stakeholders took place that exemplified the principles of mutually-reinforcing activities. The major challenges related to the project include the way it is run, the large number of people involved, the common agenda of promoting the concept of the "Yotsuba Project," and the need to share measurement systems. Through our efforts, we hope to promote the creation of health and well-being communities for people of all ages, contribute to realizing the "Healthy Japan 21 (third term)" vision, and create a robust model that can be applied by other local governments as well.
目标 “健康日本21计划”（第三阶段）要求营造一种环境，让所有年龄段的人都能轻松地过上健康生活。这种环境应由地方政府与多个利益相关者合作创建。此类举措具有集体影响力的潜力，即不同观点的多个利益相关者共同努力解决社会挑战。然而，在日本，研究机构很少加入核心组织来引导这种集体影响力。在此，我们描述了千叶大学预防医学科学中心与岩渊制药公司在千叶县四街道市联合成立的福祉社区建设部开展的健康社区发展计划的第一年（2023年），并旨在根据集体影响力的概念展示其成果、成就、挑战和未来前景。
方法 与该计划相关的结果、成就和挑战按照集体成功的五个条件进行组织：核心支持组织、持续沟通、相互强化的活动、共同议程和共享的衡量系统。
结果 我们于2023年4月设立了联合研究部门，并举办了纪念研讨会来成立该部门。然后，我们组织了15场以健康社区发展为重点的讲座。我们与几家公司、四街道市、当地居民和社区组织进行了合作。通过2023年开展的各项举措，我们最终启动了“四叶项目”。该项目强调多个利益相关者之间的合作。
结论 通过我们在2023年的活动，我们以千叶大学和岩渊制药公司的主要团队作为核心支持组织建立了一个运营结构。通过持续沟通，在包括四街道市在内的多个利益相关者之间建立了一个网络。利益相关者之间进行了各种合作实例，体现了相互强化活动的原则。与该项目相关的主要挑战包括项目的运营方式、涉及的人数众多、推广“四叶项目”概念的共同议程以及共享衡量系统的必要性。通过我们的努力，我们希望促进为所有年龄段的人创建健康和福祉社区，为实现“健康日本21（第三阶段）”愿景做出贡献，并创建一个可供其他地方政府应用的强大模式。
