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Health and Mortality in Korean Healthcare Workers
- Title
- Health and Mortality in Korean Healthcare Workers
- Authors
- Shin Y.; Kim U.J.; Lee H.A.; Choi E.J.; Park H.J.; Ahn H.S.; Park H.
- Ewha Authors
- 박혜숙; 신윤희; 이혜아
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 박혜숙; 신윤희; 이혜아
- Issue Date
- 2022
- Journal Title
- Journal of Korean Medical Science
- ISSN
- 1011-8934
- Citation
- Journal of Korean Medical Science vol. 37, no. 3
- Keywords
- Health condition; Healthcare worker; Korea; Mortality; Prevalence
- Publisher
- Korean Academy of Medical Science
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS; KCI
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Background: To evaluate the health status of healthcare workers (doctors and nurses) compared to those in the general population based on the National Health Insurance Service database and the cause of death data from Statistics Korea.Methods: The subjects of this study were 104,484 doctors and 220,310 nurses working in healthcare facilities from 2002 to 2017, and who had undergone at least one general medical examination. Based on the subject definition, the subject data were extracted from the National Health Insurance healthcare facility database and qualification database. We collected medical use details included in the research database, general medical examination results, medical history included in the health examination database, and additional data on the cause of death from the National Statistics database to analyze the main cause of death and mortality.Results: In terms of the major causes of death and mortality among healthcare workers, the mortality rate associated with intentional self-harm, injury, transportation accident, heart disease, addiction, and falling was significantly higher than that in the general population. Further, the prevalence of respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases was high. When analyzing the proportional mortality ratio (PMR) by cause of death for healthcare workers, the PMR values for death related to malignant neoplasm was the highest. In terms of diseases, both doctors and nurses had higher rates of infectious diseases such as maternal sepsis, rubella, and measles.Conclusion: The health status of healthcare workers differs from that of the general population. Thus, it is important to consider the occupational characteristics of healthcare personnel. This study is unique in that it was conducted based on medical use indicators rather than survey data © 2022 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences
- DOI
- 10.3346/JKMS.2022.37.E22
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- 의과대학 > 의학과 > Journal papers
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