Annual Disease Experience by Type and Correlations with Unmet Healthcare Needs among ROK Military Personnel.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The National Statistical Yearbook of Defense 2018 issued by the Republic of Korea (ROK) Ministry of National Defense reported that the number of patients using military hospitals steadily increased from 2008 to 2017. However, in the outpatient clinic statistics for years 2015-2017 from the ROK Armed Forces Medical Command, the amount of medical care received from some medical departments, such as the infection medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology departments, decreased. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to observe the differences in incidence of military personnel's unmet healthcare needs according to number of diseases by type.

Materials and methods

The study used data from the Military Health Survey, which was conducted from 2014 to 2015 and included 5

SUBMITTER: Kim HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7427660 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature