一项由庆应义塾大学等机构开展的研究发现，国会委员会审议时长与在东京霞关地区10个中央省厅工作的国家公务员医疗费用增加之间存在相关性。
A study by Keio University and other institutions has found a correlation between the length of parliamentary committee deliberations and higher medical expenses among national government employees working in 10 ministries and agencies in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki district.
随着外界对公务员花费大量时间应答国会质询的担忧日益加剧，这一研究结果凸显了对政府雇员进行适当健康管理的重要性。相关论文最近发表在一家国际职业健康期刊上。
As concerns grow over the long hours civil servants spend responding to parliamentary inquiries, the findings highlight the importance of appropriate health management for government workers. The paper was recently published in an international occupational health journal.
由庆应义塾大学讲师佐藤弘隆（音译）领导的研究团队，查阅了国家公务员就医时提交的医疗费用报销统计数据。
A research team led by Koryu Sato, a lecturer at Keio University, examined statistical data from medical claims submitted when national government employees visited healthcare providers.
研究人员以国会两院常设委员会针对各省厅政策领域的年度审议时长作为工作量指标。
The researchers used the annual deliberation hours of standing committees in both chambers of parliament related to each ministry’s policy areas as an indicator of workload.
该研究涵盖了2016年至2023年的时间段，对象为在10个政府省厅总部工作的约25万名年龄在18岁至50岁之间的雇员。
The study covered a period from 2016 through 2023 and about 250,000 employees between the ages of 18 and 50 who worked at the headquarters of 10 government ministries and agencies.
研究团队分析了从每年4月份审核的报销单中抽选出来进行统计调查的6454份门诊医疗费用报销单。
The team analyzed 6,454 outpatient medical claims selected for a statistical survey from claims reviewed each April.
厚生劳动省的每名雇员平均每月门诊医疗费用最高，为5125日元（约合33美元）。法务省紧随其后，为5056日元，农林水产省为4637日元。
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry had the highest average monthly outpatient medical expenses per employee, at ¥5,125 ($33). It was followed by the Justice Ministry, at ¥5,056, and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, at ¥4,637.
厚生劳动省与心理健康相关的医疗费用尤为突出。外务省的平均费用最低，为2374日元。
Mental health-related medical expenses were particularly prominent at the health ministry. The Foreign Ministry had the lowest average, at ¥2,374.
厚生劳动省还记录了在这8年期间最长的累计委员会审议时间，达到2534小时，比排在第二位的内阁府多出1000多小时。
The health ministry also recorded the longest cumulative committee deliberation time over the eight-year period, at 2,534 hours — more than 1,000 hours longer than the Cabinet Office, which ranked second.
研究人员发现，当某省厅每名雇员的委员会审议小时数在某一年增加1%时，其次年4月份的门诊医疗费用往往会增加0.25%。
The researchers found that when the number of committee deliberation hours per employee at a ministry or agency was 1% higher in a given year, outpatient medical expenses in April of the following year tended to be 0.25% higher.
财务省的医疗费用相对较低。不过佐藤指出，预算委员会并未被纳入分析，而且由于工作负担繁重，雇员可能也难以就医。
Medical expenses at the Finance Ministry were relatively low. Sato noted, however, that the Budget Committee was not included in the analysis and that employees might also find it difficult to seek medical care because of their heavy workloads.
*佐藤表示：“我们在本研究中将委员会审议时长作为各省厅忙碌程度的指标，但必须准确评估国家公务员的工作时间和工作量。”
“We used committee deliberation hours as an indicator of how busy each ministry or agency was in this study, but the working hours and workloads of national government employees must be accurately assessed,” Sato said.