Quantitative Analysis of Japanese Medical Service Level of Each Medical Region

Abstract

In this study, we built to assemble “secondly medical regions database” and analyzed the feature of each medical region using principal component analysis. As a result of the study, we extracted three principal components. The first component was how urbanized the region was. The second one was how plenty acute care was offered. And the third one was how plenty sub-acute and chronic care was offered. Additionally, by using the result of the principal component scores, we displayed the huge gap of Japanese medical delivery system among medical districts. In considering the directionality of the allocation of medical resources in each medical region, it would be desirable in assigning standard hospital bed capacities to consider assignments of beds by reflecting the degrees of urbanization of the regions and the future demands.