The purpose of this study is to reveal the regional disparity in the allocation of medical resources for each of the secondary medical care district which is regional unit to develop medical care system. The following results have been revealed. 1) There are many secondary medical care districts consist of the combination of municipalities with a variety of regional characteristics. 2) There are disparities in the accessibility between the secondary medical care district with high proportion of the urban area and with high proportion of depopulated area. 3) When the similarity of the regional characteristics of municipalities that compose the secondary medical care districts is high, the disparity in the area is small. Keywords:

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