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KMID : 0353019750120020401
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Korean Journal of Public Health
1975 Volume.12 No. 2 p.401 ~ p.408
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A Basic Study on the Trends of Disease Prevalence
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Abstract
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The following conclusions are available in order to comprehend the tendency of disease prevalence in 1965 and 1973 on the basis of "The Report on the Statistics of Disease and Injury" issued by the Ministry of Health and the Social Affairs which administered a wide range of investigation, through the medical facilities across the country, of the patients in the nation.
1. Among the most increasing when the year 1965 is compared with the year 1973 are congenital malformation at 500%, deliveries and complications of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium at 260%, neoplasms at 147% etc.
2. Among the most decreasing when the year 1965 is compared with the year 1973 are symptoms, senility and ill-defined conditions at 89.9%, allergic endoctine system, metabolic and nutritional disease, disease of the blood and bloodforming organs at 54.2%, disease of the digestive system at 47.5%.
3. Certain diseases of early infancy has decreased as much as 78% in 0-4 age group.
4. Accidents has shown no particular sign of variation, but tendency to increase can be observed in 0-4 age group and old age of over 50.
5. Tuberculosis diminished by as much as 230% in 1973 compared with that of 1965.
The year 1965 saw the highest disease prevalence in the age of 30-39. A slight change can be seen in the age group ranging 20-59 in 1973.
6. Disease prevalence rate of diabetics is in the order of the age group 50-59, 60-69, 40-49 in 1965 and 1973 and showed the increase of 33% on the whole. The male has the disease prevalence twice as much as that of the female. The male had the highest increase rate in the age group 50-59. The female had the highest increase rate in the age group 40-49.
7. Neoplasms took the third place in its increase rate of 148% of all the diseases. The female had the disease prevalence rate of 123.8% in 1965, 137.6% in 1973, compared with that of the male. The disease prevalence rate of the male is in the order of 60-69, 50-59, 40-49 and that of the female is in the order of 40-49, 50-59, and 30-39.
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