National and state-level colorectal cancer mortality trends in Mexico, 1998-2018
Salud Pública de México, 2021 Objective. To describe the burden of colorectal cancer (CRC) in Mexico and understand mortality patterns based on sex, geography, and insurance status. Materials and methods.
Priscilla Espinosa-Tamez +7 more
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Multilevel Analysis of the Relationship Between Prescribing Institutions and Medication Adherence Among Patients With Hypertension and Diabetes in Korea [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2023 Objectives This study investigated the relationship between prescribing institutions and medication adherence among patients newly diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes.
Haryeom Ghang, Juhyang Lee
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Effects of Temperature and Pressure on Acute Stroke Incidence Assessed Using a Korean Nationwide Insurance Database [PDF]
Journal of Stroke, 2017 Background and Purpose Many studies have evaluated the association between weather and stroke, with variable conclusions. Herein we determined the relationships between daily meteorological parameters and acute stroke incidence in South Korea.
Jae-Sung Lim +5 more
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Data resource profile: the allergic disease database of the Korean National Health Insurance Service [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2021 Researchers have been interested in probing how the environmental factors associated with allergic diseases affect the use of medical services. Considering this demand, we have constructed a database, named the Allergic Disease Database, based on the ...
Sunyong Yoo +8 more
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Healthcare utilisation for elderly people at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea
BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background At the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health care systems were severely disrupted in many countries and in particular, elderly people vulnerable to COVID-19 may have been reluctant to receive their medical treatment.
K. Park, J. Byeon, Y. Yang, H. Cho
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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Ghana introduced a mobile phone-based contribution payment system in its national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in December 2018 to improve the process of enrolment.
Eric Nsiah-Boateng +5 more
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The Impact of Health Insurance on Health [PDF]
Annual Review of Public Health, 2008 How does health insurance affect health? After reviewing the evidence on this question, we reach three conclusions. First, many of the studies claiming to show a causal effect of health insurance on health do not do so convincingly because the observed correlation between insurance and good health may be driven by other, unobservable factors.
Helen, Levy, David, Meltzer
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Risk for metabolic syndrome in the population with visceral fat area measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021 Background/Aims To investigate whether visceral fat area (VFA) measured by bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) was associated with metabolic syndrome in subjects with and without obesity.
Han Ho Jeon +5 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionLong-term care hospitals are known to be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and death given their numerous older chronic disease patients. However, the actual effect of long-term care hospital admission is not well known in Korea; hence, this
Jeong-Yeon Seon +3 more
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Subsidies to employee health insurance premiums and the health insurance market [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2005 One approach to covering the uninsured that is frequently advocated by policy-makers is subsidizing the employee portion of employer-provided health insurance premiums. But, since the vast majority of those offered employer-provided health insurance already take it up, such an approach is only appealing if there is a very high takeup elasticity among ...
Jonathan Gruber, Ebonya Washington
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