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Establishing social security networks for the reunification of the Koreas is important to minimize social disturbances. Above all, it is highly critical to establish a medical safety net. The non-political...
The abolishment of the internship training program in Korea has become a hot issue in Korea. The internship has traditionally been a general competency build-up process to becoming a practicing...
In this study, we analyzed the healthcare system of North Korea using Kleczkowski's model which categorizes national healthcare infrastructure into five components: health resources, organization, healthcare delivery system, economic support,...
Physicians who have defected from North Korea and settled in South Korea (North Korean defector physicians, NKDPs) have experienced hardship in the occupational integration process due to their low socio-economic...
A "system integration country" is defined as the political unification to a single national system of a country divided for a certain period of time such as Germany, Yemen, and...
Management of cardiac arrhythmias involves antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs), catheter ablation, pacemakers, and implantable defibrillators. The effects of AADs are mediated by blocking various cardiac ion channels, mostly the cardiac sodium,...
Among the many advances in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) management, thrombolysis with intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) within 3 hours after symptom onset has been the only approved pharmacological...
South Korea's health care non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have played a crucial role in South-North relations, for a formal intergovernmental relationship is difficult to establish and also easily breaks down. Humanitarian...
This study estimated the number of Korean adults aged 50 years or more with osteoarthritis (OA) based on the data from fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (K-NHANES)....
Sleep comprises one third of human life and is very important for maintaining healthy mental and physical states. Sleep disorders disturbing normal sleep are very common and may induce serious...
As the period since the partition of North and South Korea has been prolonged, the gap between the two Koreas continues to widen in various ways. Indeed, in the health...