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Using the National Health Information Database of the National Health Insurance Service in Korea for Monitoring Mortality and Life Expectancy at National and Local Levels
- Source :
- Journal of Korean Medical Science
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Korean Academy of Medical Sciences, 2017.
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Abstract
- This study explores whether the National Health Information Database (NHID) can be used to monitor health status of entire population in Korea. We calculated the crude mortality rate and life expectancy (LE) at birth across the national, provincial, and municipal levels using the NHID eligibility database from 2004 to 2015, and compared the results with the corresponding values obtained from the Korean Statistical Information Service (KOSIS) of Statistics Korea. The study results showed that the ratio of crude mortality rate between the two data was 0.99. The absolute difference between the LE of the two data was not more than 0.5 years, and did not exceed 0.3 years in gender specific results. The concordance correlation coefficients (CCC) between the crude mortality rates from NHID and the rates from KOSIS ranged 0.997–0.999 among the municipalities. For LE, the CCC between the NHID and KOSIS across the municipalities were 0.990 in 2004–2009 and 0.985 in 2010–2015 among men, and 0.952 in 2004–2009 and 0.914 in 2010–2015 among women, respectively. Overall, the NHID was a good source for monitoring mortality and LE across national, provincial, and municipal levels with the population representativeness of entire Korean population. The results of this study indicate that NHID may well contribute to the national health promotion policy as a part of the health and health equity monitoring system.<br />Graphical Abstract
- Subjects :
- Male
Databases, Factual
National Health Programs
media_common.quotation_subject
Concordance
Population
National Health Information Database
computer.software_genre
Representativeness heuristic
National Health Insurance Service
03 medical and health sciences
Life Expectancy
0302 clinical medicine
Promotion (rank)
Environmental health
Republic of Korea
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Mortality
Sex Distribution
Birth Rate
education
media_common
education.field_of_study
Database
030503 health policy & services
Mortality rate
General Medicine
Statistics Korea
Health equity
Occupation & Environmental Medicine
Geography
Service (economics)
Life expectancy
Female
Original Article
0305 other medical science
computer
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15986357 and 10118934
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Korean Medical Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7d9bf1aced127d350bfb84c1c15d77bd