• Title/Summary/Keyword: 만성호흡기질환

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Factors Affecting the Morbidity Related to Respiratory Dieseases in Urban Korea (한국 도시의 만성호흡기 질환 이환율에 영향을 주는 요인)

  • Han, Sung-Hyun;Park, Jae-Sung;Seo, Seung-Hee;Yoon, Jee-Eun;Jee, Sun-Ha
    • Korea journal of population studies
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.205-217
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    • 2005

  • Purpose: To evaluate the factors affecting hospital utilization for respiratory diseases by ecological study design and GIS tool. To raise the social concern for respiratory disease by the result. Methods: Hospital admission data supported by national health insurance cooperation were transformed to spread sheet data format and combined with air monitoring dataset. Air pollution data were collected from the annual report of air monitoring published by Korea Ministry of Environment. Socioeconomic statistics including population density, age distribution, forest ratio etc.. were filed using Korea National Statistical Office database. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed to evaluate the factors affecting hospital utilization for respiratory diseases. Analytical unit was 52 cities. Results: The factors affecting hospital utilization for respiratory diseases were the proportion of population 60 years and over, seaside city, $O_3$ level, smoking rate. Conclusions: However, outdoor pollutants monitoring data and smoking rate have weakness in reflecting individual exposure. Further research is required to propose more illustrative means to evaluate causal relationship between air pollution and respiratory health effect factors.

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Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Pulmonary Disease (호흡기 질환의 신경정신과적 측면)

  • Nam, Beom-Woo
    • Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2009

  • Pulmonary diseases distress millions of people worldwide. Numerous studies have shown an association between pulmonary disease and psychiatric disorders. Despite this, little is known about the treatment of psychiatric disorder in patients with pulmonary disease. The three main goals of this article are 1) to discuss the major disorders such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hyperventilation, tuberculosis, lung cancer that most clinicians see in practice, 2) to provide an information about psychiatric treatment such as anxiety, depression, psychosis in pulmonary disease, and 3) to provide some clinically relevant suggestions about pharmacologic interactions between pulmonary and psychotropic drugs.

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