Abstract
The author has two objectives in this paper : The first is to in vestigate the characteristics of nine types of cities about the existing medical resources which 756 cities were classified into in Part 1, and to clarify the relations between main indices of medical resources and three principal components. The second is to evaluate nine types of cities concerning the balance of the regional distribution of stocks in medical resources per capita, that is, to make indicators about main medical resources such as general beds, physicians, dentists, etc. respectively, and total indicator about medical resources. The conclusions are as follows; 1. Nine types of cities are characterized concerning the state of medical care services provided by facilities and manpower. For example, some of these variables are general beds per 10, 000 persons, the share of medical care services between hospitals and clinics, and numbers of hospitals or clinics per square kilometers, which are closely related with the second principal component. 2. The stocks in medical resources per capita depend upon nine types of cities, and are evaluated by nine indicators about medical facilities or total indicator. The total indicator about medical stocks of the cities can be significantly predicted by the indices of social and economic conditions of the cities through stepwise multiple regression analysis.
