Cohort profile: The National Health Insurance Service-National Health Screening Cohort (NHIS-HEALS) in Korea

BMJ Open

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Seong, Sang Cheol ^a   Kim, Yeon Yong ^a   Park, Sue K ^b   Khang, Young Ho ^b   Kim, Hyeon Chang ^c   Park, Jong Heon ^a   Kang, Hee Jin ^a   Do, Cheol Ho ^a   Song, Jong Sun ^a   Lee, Eun Joo ^a   Ha, Seongjun ^a   Shin, Soon Ae ^d   Jeong, Seung Lyeal ^a  

^a Health Insurance Policy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Health Insurance Policy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

administrative claims; Cohort Studies; National Health Programs; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RATE; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; MORTALITY; MOUTH DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PREVALENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; STOMATOGNATHIC DISEASES;

EID: 85029833496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016640     Document Type: Article

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