Academic Journal
Medical Care Utilization During 1 Year Prior to Death in Suicides Motivated by Physical Illnesses
| Title: | Medical Care Utilization During 1 Year Prior to Death in Suicides Motivated by Physical Illnesses |
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| Authors: | Kyoung Hwa Ha, Ki Tae Moon, Mina Suh, Sang Hyuk Jung, Jungwoo Sohn, Won Joon Lee, Jaelim Cho, Changsoo Kim, Dong-Chun Shin |
| Contributors: | Jaelim Cho, Won Joon Lee, Ki Tae Moon, Mina Suh, Jungwoo Sohn, Kyoung Hwa Ha, Changsoo Kim, Dong Chun Shin, Sang Hyuk Jung, Lee, Won Joon, Cho, Jae Lim, Kim, Chang Soo, Sohn, Jung Woo, Shin, Dong Chun |
| Source: | J Prev Med Public Health |
| Publisher Information: | Korean Society for Preventive Medicine, 2013. |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Subject Terms: | Adult, Male, Suicide Prevention, Suicide/economics, Time Factors, Health Services Needs and Demand/utilization, Mental disorders, 03 medical and health sciences, Sex Factors, 0302 clinical medicine, Mental Health/statistics & numerical data, Medical, Humans, Suicide/prevention & control, Aged, Demography, Health Services Needs and Demand, Motivation, Fees, Mental Disorders, Suicide/statistics & numerical data, Medical care research, Age Factors, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Health Services Needs and Demand/statistics & numerical data, Suicide, Fees, Medical, Mental Health, Socioeconomic Factors, Mental Disorders/psychology, Original Article, Female |
| Description: | Many epidemiological studies have suggested that a variety of medical illnesses are associated with suicide. Investigating the time-varying pattern of medical care utilization prior to death in suicides motivated by physical illnesses would be helpful for developing suicide prevention programs for patients with physical illnesses.Suicides motivated by physical illnesses were identified by the investigator's note from the National Police Agency, which was linked to the data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment. We investigated the time-varying patterns of medical care utilization during 1 year prior to suicide using repeated-measures data analysis after adjustment for age, gender, area of residence, and socioeconomic status.Among 1994 suicides for physical illness, 1893 (94.9%) suicides contacted any medical care services and 445 (22.3%) suicides contacted mental health care during 1 year prior to suicide. The number of medical care visits and individual medical expenditures increased as the date of suicide approached (p |
| Document Type: | Article Other literature type |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2233-4521 1975-8375 |
| DOI: | 10.3961/jpmph.2013.46.3.147 |
| Access URL: | http://www.jpmph.org/upload/pdf/jpmph-41-51.pdf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23766873 https://dspace.ewha.ac.kr/handle/2015.oak/229939 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/instance/3677068/ https://www.e-sciencecentral.org/articles/SC000004629 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3677068 https://yonsei.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/medical-care-utilization-during-1-year-prior-to-death-in-suicides https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3677068 |
| Rights: | CC BY NC CC BY NC ND |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....8d9a76ffb54bbbca9a60a92f097c7a93 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 22334521 19758375 |
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| DOI: | 10.3961/jpmph.2013.46.3.147 |