[Planning a health care delivery system and psychosomatic medicine]

This paper describes why planning a health care delivery system which aims at appropriate distribution of health and medical resources, as well as making an effort toward its urgent realization, is necessary. The relationship between the practice of comprehensive medical care and the significance of primary care is also explained. In giving comprehensive medical health care for the whole person, the author considered the important role that psychosomatic medicine must play in dealing with previously reported cases, including the author's cases. Furthermore, concerning primary care and the universal practice of psychosomatic medicine, their real value is as a basis for planning a health care delivery system. Therefore, the primary purpose of this paper is to show that the systematic development of a health care delivery system is of the utmost importance.