Healthy Lifestyle
The health and well-being of its residents is of the utmost importance to Kumamoto City, and health
improvement is a policy priority of the administration. Each of the five ward administrative offices has a
health promotion section with assigned doctors, public health nurses, dieticians, and other health care
providers.
We are particularly proud of our Counter-Measures for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Project, an illness
which can often develop from lifestyle-related diseases (LSRD) such as diabetes, and have introduced
measures based around education and information, early diagnosis, onset prevention, and prevention of
advanced severity. Residents, businesses, and experts in the fields of health, medicine and welfare, are all
involved in dealing with CKD issues as comprehensively as possible. Following a very successful pilot
program in the Kawachi School District – an area known for its high risk of adult LSRD - Kumamoto City
has begun implementing healthy community development promotions in all of the city’s 92 school districts.