NDB — National Database of Health Insurance Claims (Japan)
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japan)
Japan's national repository of anonymized health insurance claims and Specific Health Checkup records, collected under the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare with data from April 2009 onward. Researchers apply to MHLW for provision of the anonymized data, which is used for health policy analysis and pharmacoepidemiology; MHLW also publishes aggregated NDB open data tables.
Category
Research database
Access
By application
Region
Asia — Japan
Coverage
National health insurance claims, Japan
Data types
health insurance claims, diagnoses, prescriptions, health checkup data