Stagnation of life expectancy in Korea in 2018: A cause-specific decomposition analysis.

Autor: Taejae Kim, Jinwook Bahk, Hwa Kyung Lim, Young-Ho Khang

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 12, p e0244380 (2020)

According to the most recent annual report released by Korea Statistics, the life expectancy at birth (for both sexes) in 2018 was 82.7 years, an increase of 0.0 years over 2017, reflecting the first stagnation in life expectancy since 1960. In this

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Optimal Triage for COVID-19 Patients Under Limited Intensive Care Unit Capacity: Development of a Parsimonious Machine Learning Prediction Model and Threshold Optimization Using Discrete-Event Simulation

Autor: Kyoung Hwa Lee, Kyo Chul Koo, Jae-Hyeon Ahn, Kwang Suk Lee, Hwa Kyung Lim, Jeong Min Kim

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented burden on healthcare systems. To effectively triage COVID-19 patients within situations of limited data availability and to explore optimal thresholds to minimiz

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https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-648718/v1

Quantifying the impact of reducing socioeconomic inequalities in modifiable risk factors on mortality and mortality inequalities in South Korea

Autor: Hwa Kyung Lim, Young-Ho Khang

Publikováno v: International Journal of Public Health. 64:585-594

We quantified the impact of reducing socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors on mortality and mortality inequalities in South Korea. The mortality risk function from the 12-year mortality follow-up data of the National Health Insurance Service-Nat

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-019-01231-2

Educational Inequalities in Self-Rated Health in Europe and South Korea

Autor: Hee-Yeon Kang, Young-Ho Khang, Hwa-Kyung Lim, Min-Hye Kim

Publikováno v: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Social Inequalities and Health Disparities Due to Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Status
Volume 17
Issue 12
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 4504, p 4504 (2020)

While numerous comparative works on the magnitude of health inequalities in Europe have been conducted, there is a paucity of research that encompasses non-European nations such as Asian countries. This study was conducted to compare Europe and Korea

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https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/73521

Comparison of three small-area mortality metrics according to urbanity in Korea: the standardized mortality ratio, comparative mortality figure, and life expectancy

Autor: Young-Ho Khang, Hee Yeon Kang, Hwa Kyung Lim, Ikhan Kim

Publikováno v: Population Health Metrics
Population Health Metrics, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020)

Background: This study aimed to compare three small-area level mortality metrics according to urbanity in Korea: the standardized mortality ratio (SMR), comparative mortality figure (CMF), and life expectancy (LE) by urbanity.Methods: We utilized the

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32620133