• 보건행정학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.120-125
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• 2020

Unmet healthcare needs lead to increased disease severity, increased likelihood of complications, and worse disease prognosis. To examine the latest status of unmet healthcare needs in South Korea, the four different data configured with nationally representative sample of South Korean population were used: the Korea Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNAHANES, 2007-2018), the Community Health Survey (CHS, 2008-2018), the Korea Health Panel Survey (KHP, 2011-2016), and the Korean Welfare Panel Study (KOWEPS, 2006-2018). The proportion of individuals reporting unmet healthcare needs were 7.8% (KNHANES, 2018), 8.8% (CHS), and 10.8% (KHP, 2016). Annual percentage change which characterizes trend for the follow-up period was -9.1%, -3.2%, and -6.8%, respectively. The proportion of individuals reporting unmet healthcare needs due to cost were 1.2% (KNAHANES, 2018), 1.2% (CHS, 2018), 2.5% (KHP, 2016), and 0.5% (KOWEPS, 2018). Annual percentage change which characterizes trend for the follow-up period was -10.3%, -12.0%, -11.3%, and -18.8, respectively. The low-income population and the elderly population were vulnerable groups reporting the highest rate of unmet health care needs. The rate of unmet healthcare needs has been declining since the past decade, still, the disparity between different income groups and age groups suggests that there are many challenges to address.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.208-220
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• 2024

Background: Although a direct association has been established between oral health management and maintaining military combat readiness and fulfilling defense duties, unmet dental-care needs have been consistently reported, and there has been little research on the role of mobile healthcare services in addressing this issue. This study explored the association between unmet dental-care needs and the intention to use mobile healthcare services among military personnel. Methods: This study was conducted on military personnel who visited a military hospital in Gyeonggi-do, Korea, from August 19 to August 31, 2024. A total of 150 self-administered questionnaires were distributed and 135 valid responses were analyzed. The analysis included general characteristics, dental care utilization, and intention to use mobile healthcare services. Statistical analyses, such as t-tests, ANOVA, and multiple regression, were employed to determine the factors influencing the intention to use mobile healthcare services. Results: This study found that military personnel with unmet dental-care needs had significantly higher intentions to use mobile healthcare services than those without such needs. The analysis revealed that the key factors influencing this intention were perceived health status and previous dental-care utilization. Specifically, participants who rated their overall health as better and those who had used dental care services in the past year showed a greater tendency to express interest in mobile healthcare services than those who did not. Furthermore, unmet dental-care needs were more prevalent among soldiers who reported limited access to dental facilities owing to time constraints or a lack of prioritization of oral health, which increased their inclination toward utilizing mobile healthcare solutions as an alternative. Conclusion: Mobile healthcare solutions can offer personalized and timely care as viable alternatives for improving oral health management in the military. Moreover, integrating mobile healthcare services into military health systems could significantly reduce unmet dental-care needs and enhance overall combat readiness by promoting better health outcomes.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.306-313
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• 2019

본 연구는 노인의 미충족 의료에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하여 미충족 의료 해소를 위한 보건의료정책 개발에 필요한 기초자료를 제공하고자 실시되었다. 연구대상은 2017년도 노인실태조사 원시자료를 이용하여 1개 이상의 만성질환을 가지고 있는 9,117명을 연구대상으로 하였으며, SPSS Statistics ver 25.0을 사용하여 분석하였다. 주요 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 미충족 의료에 대한 경험은 병/의원 진료는 851명(9.3%), 치과 진료는 1,469명(16.1%)이 경험한 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 미충족 의료의 사유는 병/의원 진료와 치과 진료 모두에서 경제적 어려움이 각각 425명(49.9%), 1,066명(72.6%)으로 가장 많았다. 셋째, 병/의원 진료에서 미충족 의료의 경험에는 배우자, 교육수준, 주관적 건강상태, 운동이 영향을 미치는 요인이었으며, 치과 진료에서는 배우자, 교육수준, 의료급여 수급자, 주관적 건강상태, 흡연, 운동이 영향을 미치는 요인으로 나타났다. 이상의 연구결과를 바탕으로 만성질환을 가진 노인의 미충족 의료에 영향을 주는 요인을 고려하여 미충족 의료를 완화시킬 수 있는 보건의료 정책을 수립해나가야 할 것이다.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.93-103
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• 2020

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify unmet healthcare needs among man and woman one-person households and to explore related factors by gender. Methods: Data were drawn from the 2017 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The final sample consisted of 820 one-person households. The statistical analysis, conducted in SPSS version 20.1, included complex sampling analysis; descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, and logistic regression. Results: The demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of women in one-person households were significantly different from those of men in one-person households. Women in single-person households were mainly in their 70s or older and married, and they tended to have a low education level, low income, and no formal occupation. Unmet healthcare needs were experienced by 17.3% of women in one-person households and 13.5% of men in one-person households, which was not a statistically significant difference (χ²=2.17, p=.139). Factors related to unmet healthcare needs were subjective health status and unmet dental care needs in single-person-household men. By contrast, having experienced impairment within the past year, stress, and unmet dental care needs were factors related to unmet healthcare needs in single-person-household women. Conclusion: As one-person households become increasingly common, more attention needs to be paid to them and our understanding of them needs to be improved. Women in one-person households, in particular, are especially vulnerable, as they experience more unmet healthcare needs.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2019

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to estimate the mediating effect of subjective unmet healthcare needs on poor health. The mediating effect of unmet needs on health outcomes was estimated. Methods: Cross-sectional research method was used to analyze Korea Health Panel data from 2011 to 2015, investigating the mediating effect for each annual dataset and lagged dependent variables. Results: The magnitude of the effect of low income on poor health and the mediating effect of unmet needs were estimated using age, sex, education level, employment status, healthcare insurance status, disability, and chronic disease as control variables and self-rated health as the dependent variable. The mediating effect of unmet needs due to financial reasons was between 14.7% to 32.9% of the total marginal effect, and 7.2% to 18.7% in lagged model. Conclusions: The fixed-effect logit model demonstrated that the existence of unmet needs raised the likelihood of poor self-rated health. However, only a small proportion of the effects of low income on health was mediated by unmet needs, and the results varied annually. Further studies are necessary to search for ways to explain the varying results in the Korea Health Panel data, as well as to consider a time series analysis of the mediating effect. The results of this study present the clear implication that even though it is crucial to address the unmet needs, but it is not enough to tackle the income related health inequalities.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.355-365
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• 2019

Objectives: In rural areas of Korea, where public transportation infrastructure is lacking and alternative systems are poor, the elderly experience inconveniences in using healthcare, although their need is high. This study aimed to analyze the association between the convenience of transportation and unmet healthcare needs among the rural elderly. Methods: The data used were collected in the 2016 Community Health Survey among rural elderly individuals aged 65 or older. Dependent variable was the unmet healthcare needs, explanatory variable was the convenience of transportation. The elderly were divided into 3 groups: with no driver in the household, with a driver, and the elderly individual was the driver (the self-driving group). Covariates were classified into predisposing, enabling, and need factors. They included gender, age, education, income, economic activity, household type, motor ability, subjective health level, number of chronic diseases, anxiety/depression, and pain/discomfort. The data were analyzed using logistic regression and stratification. Results: A significant association was found between the convenience of transportation and unmet healthcare needs. When examined unadjusted odds ratio of the group with a driver in the household, using the group with no driver as a reference, was 0.61 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.54 to 0.68), while that of the self-driving group was 0.34 (95% CI, 0.30 to 0.38). The odds ratios adjusted for all factors were 0.69 (95% CI, 0.59 to 0.80) and 0.79 (95% CI, 0.67 to 0.91). Conclusions: We confirmed a significant association between inconvenient transportation and unmet healthcare needs among the rural elderly even after adjustment for existing known factors. This implies that policies aimed at improving healthcare accessibility must consider the means of transportation available.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2019

Purposes: The purpose of this study, was to identify similar factors between reasons for unscreening and unmet health care needs through prior research, and based on this, we wanted to figure out the relevance between the medical screening and unmet health care needs. Methodology: The analysis was conducted using data from 9,640 adults aged 19 or older who don't have a missing value from 16,277 participants in the 7th, 1st&2nd Year (2016&2017) of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). Unmet health care needs were investigated as a self-reported questionnaire of whether medical service was required but not received. And the analysis was performed through the Chi-Square Test and Multi-logistic Regression analysis. Findings: As a result of the analysis, unmet healthcare needs were higher who received only one type of screening comparative to who screened both. and were highest who screened neither. Practical Implications: Unmet health care needs are the center of a vicious cycle, such as morbidity and mortality, which is detrimental to the quality of life, and continues to increase. Therefore, it is necessary to find ways of realizing health care that guarantees the health rights of all citizens by policy guarantee and support for the subjects to recognize the importance of thorough education of screenings rather than only health screening or cancer screening.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.225-235
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• 2020

본 연구는 골다공증 환자의 라이프 케어 증진을 위한 미충족 의료실태와 위험요인 분석하기 위하여 패널 자료를 활용한 횡단적 2차 분석 조사연구이다. 연구대상자는 한국의료패널 2015년 자료(β-version 1.0)를 활용하여 골다공증 진단을 받은 941명을 대상으로 하였다. SPSS/win 22.0 Program을 이용하여 χ² test, logistic regression을 이용하여 자료를 분석하였다. 연구결과 골다공증 환자의 미충족 의료 발생률은 22.6%이었으며, 인구학적 특성 요인의 Model I에서는 나이, 교육수준으로 나타났으며, 신체적 요인을 추가한 Model II에서는 섭식문제, 기억력 장애, 활동제한, 장애 판정으로 나타났다. 심리·사회적 요인을 추가한 Model III에서는 섭식문제, 기억력 장애, 총 가구 소득, 통증/불편감으로 확인되었다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 골다공증 환자의 라이프 케어를 증진시키기 위해 지속적으로 의료정책 기획 시 고려되어져야 하겠으며, 미충족 의료를 감소시키기 위한 의료서비스 접근성 개선과 현실적인 예방 및 중재가 필요하겠다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.283-290
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• 2020

본 연구는 미충족 의료 경험과 삶의 질 관련 측정지표 간 인과관계를 실증하는 데 목적을 두었다. 이 두 변수간 인과관계 검증을 위해 본 연구는 한국의료패널의 부가조사 원자료를 가공하여 분석을 실시하였다. 삶의 질과 관련된 측정지표로는 운동능력, 자기관리, 일상 활동, 통증/불편, 불안/우울, 주관적 건강상태의 6개 변수를 투입해 선형회귀분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구의 분석 결과 미충족 의료 경험은 본 연구에 투입한 6가지의 삶의 질 하위변수 모두에 통계적으로 유의한 부(-)적 영향을 미치는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 아울러 선형회귀분석을 통해 도출된 β값을 활용해 상대적 영향력의 크기를 검토한 결과 통증/불편, 주관적 건강상태, 불안/우울, 일상 활동, 운동능력, 자기관리의 순으로 차별적 영향 수준을 나타내는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 분석 결과에 기초해 삶의 질적 수준 향상에 기여하기 위한 미충족 의료에 대한 정책 대응방안으로서 보건과 복지의 실무 연계 강화와 관련한 실무적 시사점을 제언하였다.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.62-72
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• 2023

Based on the basic ideology of health care, this study realized the seriousness of annual unmet medical need and conducted a study to confirm the relationship between the subjective perception of regional healthcare environment and unmet medical needs. The independent variable was classified into attitude 'satisfaction' and 'unsatisfaction' toward regional healthcare, and the dependent variable was classified as whether unmet medical needs occurred annually. Based on previous studies, the control variables were selected as demographic and socioeconomic characteristics that can affect the occurrence of unmet medical care annually and characteristics related to health behavior. Descriptive statistics were conducted for each variable on the extracted sample, and multivariate survey logistic regression analysis was conducted to confirm the association between variables. As a result, more unmet medical needs occurred annually than those who were satisfied with the medical services in the area where they lived. In addition, more unmet medical need occurred annually in "unsatisfied" households compared to households "satisfied" with local medical services. In residential areas, women live in "metropolis" and "rural areas" compared to "urban," women live in men, lower education levels, and poor subjective health levels, and less satisfied with local medical services. As such, the impact of environmental factors in the community on the use of health and medical services is one of the major areas of interest in the field of health science, such as health policy and social dynamics. Therefore, hospitals in each region need to make efforts in terms of hospital management to increase the overall satisfaction of medical services in the region by continuously monitoring the attitude of residents to achieve universal health security, and policymakers should also be interested and propose new policies.