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KMID : 1123820060080020057
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Health & sports medicine
2006 Volume.8 No. 2 p.57 ~ p.62
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Medical cost of physical inactivity
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Koh Kwang-Wook
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Abstract
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Although Physical inactivity is major risk factor of morbidity and mortality, awareness and research is not much. So approx-imate estimation using health insurance data and population attributable risk rate was tried. regarding the research methods, diseases were selected after the method of United States Department of Health and Human Services. Medical costs were esti-mated by cost of treatment benefit of National Health Insurance Corporation. Population attributable risk rate applicated to the above cost. According to the result, cost of treatment benefit of Insulin non-dependant diabetes mellitus(NIDDM), arthritis of knee, angina pectoris, depression, acute myocardial infarction, rectal cancer, breast cancer were high in order. Cost of treatment benefit due to physical inactivity were estimated 205,211,206 thousand won in order of NIDDM, angina, acute myocardial in-farction, colon cancer, rectal cancer and breast cancer. In short medical cost of NIDDM, Ischemic heart disease, cancer of large intestine and breast cancer were high in Republic of Korea and continuous monitoring and complementary research is needed.
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KEYWORD
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physical inactivity, medical cost
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