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Comparison of Health Care Utilization and Morbidity of Children With and Without Disabilities in Korea (장애아동과 비장애아동의 의료이용 및 질병특성 비교)

  • Kim, Eu-Gene;Kim, Kyung-Mee;Yoo, Dong-Chul
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.696-706
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    • 2017
  • This study is to examine health care utilization and morbidity of disabled and non-disabled children in Korea to evaluate the health disparities. We used medical claim data of 2010 from the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort data. As a result of the analysis, the disabled children are not in good health condition because they have more frequency of medical service use, hospitalization rate, and more number of diseases and spent more on medical expenses than non-disabled children. Patterns of the most frequent disease differ from significantly between disable and non-disabled. Disabled children had a higher prevalence of selected birth defects and selected health conditions associated with physical disability and a lower prevalence of selected infection disease than children without disability. In conclusion, Health policy changes that would extend the access to health service for children with disabilities characterized by frequent medical care, hospitalization, excessive medical expenditure and complex diseases.