A5010762413- Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Healthcare and Venom Research
- Global Health Care Issues
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Medical Research and Treatments
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Diverse Approaches in Healthcare and Education Studies
- Health disparities and outcomes
Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
2012-2022
Many countries are trying to integrate traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) into their health care systems. However, it is not easy T&CM within a given system. This study aims draw policy outcomes lessons from the case of Malaysia, which has been making efforts for over 20 years various types national system (NHS).Documents were searched in major databases websites using words such as Malaysia T&CM, additional documents secured snowballing techniques. Data classified organized...
This study examines social inequalities in life expectancy and mortality during the transition period of Korean economic crisis (1993-2010) among adults aged 40 over.Data from census national death file Statistics Korea are employed to calculate age-specific-death-rates (ASDR) by age, gender, educational attainment for five years: 1993, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010. Absolute relative differences Age-Specific Death Rates were utilized as proxy measures inequality.Clear gradient was observed at age...
Traditional Korean medicine (TKM) is formally integrated into the national health system and monitored through systematic computerized system, which could grasp whole medical services utilization in Korea. This study analyzed TKM resources as input output using data from 2008–2017 compared them to Conventional Medicine (CM). As a result, 25.4% of Koreans utilized yearly, proportion expenditure (ME) total ME insurance was around 4% between 2008 2017. The has been stagnating or decreasing over...
the effects of IC on clinical outcomes using a practice-based research model. The purpose this ongoing prospective study is to assess levels pain and stress before after visits inform practice guide future research. Methods: Patients 18 years or older receiving treatment at an over four-week period completed self-report measures andafter eachvisit. Reason for visit modality were examined. Pain assessed 10-point Likert scale (0 = nopain, 10 unbearable pain). Paired sample t-tests used examine...