Hekinan Medical Association

What kind of it?

Public medical examinations for adults are two of the next.

(1)The medical examination done in Hekinan City health center

It's generally seid adult disease medical examination : mini-dock. There are the next eleven kinds of them.

• A1 Course
• A2 Course
• B Course
• C Course
• E Course
• Prostatic cancer medical examination
• Women medical examination
• Women synthetic medical examination
• Osteoporosis
• Adult dentistry medical examination(Pregnancy dentistry medical examination)

Object	Execution day	Self-burden money
A1 Course (Inhabitant periodic health check-up)	It's carried out for a group application person on the second or the4th Tuesday, And carried out for anindividual application person in the same day of B or Ccourse.	free
A2 Course (Family medical examination)		2,000 yen
B Course(Semi synthetic medical examination)	In principle every week in the morning of Wednesday and Thursday	5,000 yen
C Course (The general physical checkup of over thirty years old)		8,000 yen
E Course (Abdomen supersonic medical examination)		3,000 yen
Prostatic cancer medical examination(Almost the man of over fifty years old )	It is suggested that take them at the same time on the execution day of A2, B, C, Women, and Women synthetic.	1,000 yen
Osteoporosis (Over eighteen years old)		5,000 yen

• Application : Hekinan City health center(phone:0566-48-3751)
• Only the related documents about B,or CCourse accepted by ten days ago of the consultation day are mailed.
• The person of a forty-year-old birthday is free for one's month of birth with Hekinan citizen. Furthermore, they'are half price for the person of a fifty-year-old birthday.
• They're half price to Hekinan City national health insurance meber, there being no relations with the age.

*) You can know details through the homepage of the health center.

(2)The medical examination done in the medical institution specified in the city.

It's called health examination for the aged. Except for the womb cancer medical examination it's done from August until November.

About the health examination for the aged by the designated medical institution

• It's done in the designated medical institution of the city from August until November every year, except for some of the medical examinations.
• Stomach cancer screening is sometimes done until about December 10.
• You can take the uterine cancer medical examination and the breast cancer medical examination in obstetrics and gynecology of the city until the end of February in the next year.
• Anyone who's over forty years old can take it free in the health examination for the aged law.
• The person of over 65 years old who lives in the city can take general health examination free.

*) You can know other details through the homepage of the health center.

What does it do?

As for the contents of the medical examination being done in the health center, see the homepage of the center.

The contents of the health examination for the aged

In general medical examination, in addition to the doctor's questions, measurement of the height body weight, these are done as follows.

1. Sanguineous measurement, thoracic auscultatio and abdominal palpation by a doctor
2. Urinalysis : It checks whether albumen, sugar and blood don't mix in the urine.
3. Electrocardiogram : It checs the function of the heart
4. Funduscopy : A picture of the retina in the back of the eyeball is taken through the pupil of the eye, and the existence of the arteriosclerosis and eyeground bleeding is investigated.
5. Blood test : It checks about the sanguineous number, a kidney function, a liver function, a blood sugar level, serum lipid, and so on mainly.

Blood test of the health examination for the aged

• Erasure blood test

The existence of the anemia is investigated mainly by examining number of white blood cell(WBC) and red blood cell(RBC) of the sanguineous inside and examining sanguineous depth (Hemoglobin : hemoglobin value) and that specific gravity (hematocrit).

• Serum chemistry

The total protein quality (the amount of albumen) of the sanguineous inside, a hepatic function (glutanic oxalacetic transaminase value=GOT, glutamic pyruvic transaminaze value=GPT), kidney function (BUN, creatinine value and uric acid : an enzyme to increase at the time of the gout), blood glucose (the inspection of the diabetes) and total cholesterol count, acylglycerol, HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) are measured. And, average blood glucose level (HbA1c : glycohemoglobin) is measured to the questionable person of the diabetes.

Other inspection of the health examination for the aged

• The medical examination of the lung cancer : Thoracic X-rays and inspection
• The medical examination of Stomach cancer : Barium is drunk and done.
• The medical examination of Colorectal carcinoma : It check whether blood doesn't mix with Rectum, and examines a rectum in the finger
• The medical examination of Breast cancer. It checks whether there is a tumor of the breast due to ocular inspection or palpation.

The meaning of it and attention points

• The primary purpose of the medical examination is discovering illness as early as possible in such cases as the high blood pressure, the heart disease, the diabetes, the hyperlipemia and the cancer.
• Illness isn't always discovered by the medical examination. When illness is the early days, it isn't sometimes found.
• Be sure to take a thorough examination after if it's necessary after the medical examination. Specially a cancer is often asymptomatic.
• It's important to take a medical examination every year and to see a change in your health.