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Prevention of Children's Diseases and Accidents
Last update date April 7, 2022
Vaccinations
In Yokohama, the Vaccinations guide documents and a pre-examination card will be sent to your home, starting from 2 months old, 1 year old, 3 years old, 9 years old, 11 years old, and 1 year before entering elementary school, and before entering junior high school (* from 2022).
For more information, please visit Vaccinations.
Children's Diseases and Home Care
For information on observation points and home care such as fever and diarrhea, please see Child Diseases and Home Care.
About child safety, accident prevention
About child safety and accident prevention
Grants to medical expenses
Medical Certificate for infant (Subsidies for Medical Expenses for Pediatric Treatment)
When a child whose Address is located in Yokohama and joins employee health insurance receives a medical institution due to illness or injury, this system subsidizes a portion of insurance medical treatment according to age.
For more information, please visit the Subsidies for Medical Expenses for Pediatric Treatment page.
Chronic Specific Diseases
This system pays medical expenses (self-pay) for children who suffer from specific diseases among chronic diseases of children.
For more information, please refer to the medical care benefits page.
Fostering Medical Care
Part of the medical expenses when a child under the age of 18 undergoing treatment to reduce or remedy physical disability at a designated medical institution.
This is a system in which public expenses are paid.
Specifically, please see page of payment of independence support medical care (upbringing medical care).
Child care for premature infants
medical expenses is funded by public funds for baby/infant (0-year-old children) who need to be hospitalized due to poor physical development due to low weight or premature birth (with a gestational age of 37 weeks).
For more information, please visit the medical care benefits System page.
Treatment for tuberculosis elementary school student
For those under the age of 18 who have osteoarthritis and other tuberculosis and need hospitalization, the city will bear the medical expenses necessary for the treatment and provide learning supplies and daily necessities. It is a system to do.
For more information, please see the Tuberculosis elementary school student Rehabilitation medical care benefits page.
Assistance for medical expenses with severe disabilities
If a severely disabled person who is a member of the employee health insurance goes to a doctor due to illness or injury, this system subsidizes a portion of insurance medical treatment.
For more information, please see the medical expenses Grant page.
Check ups for Infants and Toddlers at the ward office
Please refer to [Minami Ward] Infant Health Examination for Check ups for Infants and Toddlers (4 months old, 1 year and 6 month old, 3 years old) at the Minami Ward Office.
Check ups for Infants and Toddlers in medical institutions
Use the consultation slip (medical institution Check ups for Infants and Toddlers consultation card) bound in the spelling of the medical examination ticket handed when the Mother and Child Health Handbook was issued.
You can receive three Health Checkups free of charge at medical institutions.
For more information, please visit the Check ups for Infants and Toddlers page.
Search for medical facilities
You can search for it on the Yokohama Medical Association page.
Yokohama Medical Association (outside site)
Consultation in case of sudden illness and emergency medical institutions
Please refer to Medical Care Bureau's page "Consultation for Emergency and Emergency Medical Consultation".
Emergency Consultation Guide / Emergency Consultation Center (# 7119) / Pediatric Emergency Response Guide
Please refer to Medical Care Bureau's page "Pediatric Medical Care".
For inquiries to this page
Minami Ward Health and Welfare Center Children and Families Support Division
Phone: 045-341-1148
Phone: 045-341-1148
Fax: 045-341-1145
Email address: mn-kodomokatei@city.yokohama.jp
Page ID: 539-446-309