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In Japan, home medical care and nursing care are being promoted with the goal of building a comprehensive community care system as one of the measures to deal with the aging society. In this study, we investigated the status of home medical care in hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies nationwide using facility standard information for medical and pharmacy facilities reported to the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare, including 91,163 medical institutions (medical) and 59,410 pharmacies, and analyzed regional uneven distribution and factors.
The percentage of medical institutions by prefecture that had reported standards for home care support clinics, home care support hospitals, home care performance premiums, and home care rear support hospitals ranged from 10.5% to 31.7%, while the percentage of pharmacies that had reported home patient dispensing premiums ranged from 11% to 47.1%. Spatial analysis showed a trend of higher rates in the west and lower rates in the east, suggesting that there may be regional differences in the home care provision systems of health insurance medical institutions. A multivariate analysis was conducted using regional factors such as population density, elderly population, and number of hospital beds, as well as facility factors such as pharmacy functions.
Pharmacist, building environmental sanitation management technician.
Completed master's course at Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine.
He received his PhD (Doctor of Pharmacy) from Gifu Pharmaceutical University.
After graduating from university, he engaged in clinical work and research at Tokyo Medical University Hospital and the Pharmacology Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine.
He then studied abroad in the United States, where he engaged in research on addictive drugs such as narcotic analgesics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. After returning to Japan, he worked as a researcher at the Basic Technology Research Institute of Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd., and as the chief managing pharmacist in the pharmaceutical department at Yokohama Emergency Medical Center, before assuming his current position.
He currently serves as a delegate to the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan and a member of the Academic Working Group of the School Pharmacists Division of the Japan Pharmaceutical Association.
