Research Findings from Kanazawa University Update Understanding of Health and Medicine (Analysis of Pharmaceutical Demand in the Region for Chronic Medicine Users Using National Health Insurance Data: Examination for Disaster Preparedness in …): Health and Medicine

2023 DEC 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Pharma Business Daily -- A new study on agriculture is now available. According to news originating from Kanazawa, Japan, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “When large earthquakes occur over wide areas, in addition to damage to medical facilities, the disaster response capabilities of local governments are severely compromised.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Kanazawa University: “There is a very high possibility that the supply-demand balance of medicines will collapse within the disaster area, and that appropriate supplies of medicines will not be provided to disaster victims. Therefore, it is important to estimate in advance the quantity of pharmaceuticals that may be needed during disasters. In this study, the purpose is to clarify the quantity and quality of pharmaceuticals used by chronically ill patients by using Japanese National Health Insurance data regarding the issues mentioned above. The methodology used was to extract the status of pharmaceutical prescriptions based on receipt information from National Health Insurance data for Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, a small regional city in Japan, as the analysis target area.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Through the analysis in this study, the quantity and quality of medicines supplied to chronically ill patients in Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, were clarified on a town-by-town basis.”

For more information on this research see: Analysis of Pharmaceutical Demand in the Region for Chronic Medicine Users Using National Health Insurance Data: Examination for Disaster Preparedness in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Healthcare, 2023,11(23):3029. (Healthcare - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare). The publisher for Healthcare is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11233029.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Yuta Moriwaki, Division of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan. Additional authors for this research include Yuma Morisaki, Shigehiro Karashima, Makoto Fujiu.

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