International Journal of Biomedical Soft Computing and Human Sciences: the official journal of the Biomedical Fuzzy Systems Association
Online ISSN : 2424-256X
Print ISSN : 2185-2421
ISSN-L : 2185-2421
A Study of the National Medical System in Japan : The relation between the National Medical Care Expenditure and the Number of Medical Workers(<Special Issue>Contribution to 21 Century Intelligent Technologies and Bioinformatics)
Ritsuyo UCHIMIYAAkira TAMAKI
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2008 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 103-108

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This paper analyzes Japanese medical systems based on an economic metrical theory for both small organizations and national economies. From the macroscopic point of view, through regression analysis, the National Medical Care Expenditure of Japan is proved to be a linear increasing function of the Medical Workers Number, where the former may be proportional to the latter if the effect of inflation is filtered out; also, the proportion of the National Medical Expense for Workers to that for Facilities is proved to be strictly 1 to 1. These results bring us important implications for the medical policies of Japan. We can conclude that the Number of Medical Workers must be reduced if the National Medical Care Expenditure of Japan is reducing, but it is equally clear that this policy might significantly decrease Japanese national welfare. We must be prudent about changing public systems.
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