CLASSIFYING ACCORDING TO THE BUSINESS CONDITION AND FUNCTION OF THE PHARMACIES : A study on planning of medical, health care and welfare facilities as community facilities Part 1

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to get knowledge about the business condition and function of the pharmacies and try to divide. So, we examined them at four wards in Kobe city with questionnaire survey. As a result, we understood their business condition and function. About the business condition, we got four classified axes with quantification theory type III, and about the function, three components with principal component analysis. And they could be divided into two groups about basic attribute and two groups about function with cluster analysis. At last, they could be divided into four groups crossing that groups.