1.Medical Accessibility and Its Effects on Medical Care Utilization: Experiences from Yonsei Health Insurance Cooperatives.
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine 1979;12(1):99-106
Accessibility to medical facilities and personnels has been known as one of important determinants of medical care utilization. This study attempted to identify the effects of medical accessibility in terms of geographical distance and occupational opportunity to the medical utilizations. Two-year-experiences of Yonsei University Health Insurance Cooperatives were used as the sources of data. Out patient utilization patterns of 713 members sampled from 4,352 members of Health Insurance Cooperatives were analyzed in order to identify the effects of medical accessibilities. Findings: 1. Average clinic visit rate of Yonsei Health Insurance is 1.66 per person per year. 2. The utilization rates of geographically more accessible group were 33% higher than that of less accessible group. 3. No marked difference in clinic visit rate were observed between medical and non-medical personnel and their family members. 4. Clinic visit rates among occupationally accessible group were slightly higher than those of less accessible. The utilization rate was more sensitively changed by the insurance policy changes in occupationally accessible group.
Ambulatory Care
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Humans
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Insurance
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Insurance, Health*
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Occupations
10.A case of recurrent infantile digital fibroma.
Hyun Chul CHOI ; Young Chul KYE ; Chil Whan OH
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1992;30(5):743-746
Recurrent infantile digital fibroma is a peculiar fibrous tumiir that may be single or multiple on fingers and toes of infants and children. We report a 5-year-old gril with recurrent infantile digital fiber oma which was recurrent on the left 5th toe. The lesion had noted at the age of 6 months. and was excised surgically when the child was 3 year old. 2 years after operation, the lesion was recurred in operation site. Microscopically, nodular fibrous mass is attached to flattened,pidermis. The underlying nodule is composed of proliferating fibroblasts surrounded by derse collagenous tissue. We could find eosinophilic inclusion bodies in the cytoplasm of fibro ilast. It was stained pink with H&E, bright red with Massons trichrome and purple with PTAH.
Child
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Child, Preschool
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Collagen
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Cytoplasm
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Eosinophils
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Fibroblasts
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Fibroma*
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Fingers
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Humans
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Inclusion Bodies
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Infant
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Toes