Development of community care model for persons with disabilities due to geographic understanding of the development status and resources of disability services

• Project/Area Number: 24530778
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities
• Principal Investigator: TSUTSUI Sumiei 国立障害者リハビリテーションセンター(研究所), 研究所 障害福祉研究部, 研究室室長 (20285969)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OTAGA Masaaki 国立保健医療科学院, 医療・福祉サービス研究部, 研究員 (90619115)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
• Keywords: 障害福祉サービス / 地理情報システム / 平均アクセス距離 / 障害福祉サービス等給付費 / 障害者福祉サービス事業所 / 障害者総合支援法給付実績 / 障害者総合福祉法 / 障害者サービス / 利用者の利便性 / 障害者福祉 / 障害者自立支援法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Disability welfare service offices are essential in helping to maintain regional and home-based disability services. We used a geographical information system (GIS) to determine the regional allocation of disability welfare service offices by visualizing office locations and by measuring both the closest and average office distance in each prefecture and each so-called "disability public health and welfare region". The study findings are as follows: (1) The average distance to access disability welfare service offices differed between regions; (2) There was a correlation between the average distance and the use of services; (3) Average distance tended to be closer for access to government-subsidized medical treatments but further away for commuting care services; and (4) There were regional differences in the distribution of access distance and percentage of population capable of access.