No abstract available.
Movement Disorders* ; Religious Missions*

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Acne Vulgaris* ; Female* ; Humans ; Multicenter Studies as Topic*

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Animals ; Interferons* ; Macrophages* ; Mice*

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Humans ; Myocardial Infarction* ; Young Adult*

To examine the result of the government Medical Aid Program which began in January, 1977 as a part of social security policy implementation, all the medical records of the clients and official statistics in the year were analyzed. The specific objectives this study pursues include the magnitudes and patterns of morbidity and utilization, and the characteristics of clients. One Korean rural area, Koje county was selected as the study area and subsequently all the clinics and hospitals assigned to work out the Aid Program are the subjects for the survey. A brief summary of the study results as follows: a. The clients of Koje county are 6.4% of the total population in the area, more than the average percentage of the clients in Korea. It reflects on low level of economic status of the residents of the area. b. The population structure of the clients indicates that the large proportions of young and old age group are overwhelming, while the middle age group share very small portions. 3c. The utilization rates for primary care are 2.0 persons, 11.6 visits and 22.6 treatment days per 100 persons per months. Annual hospitalization is rated as 13.7 cases and 164 days per 1,000 persons. The utilization rates are slightly lower than those expected rates during planning period but eventually become higher than those of general population in rural Korea. d. The factors which influence the utilization rates are identified with client group(low income vs indigent), age and sex. e. The utilization pattern for primary care demonstrates seasonal variation similar to the pattern of general rural population in the low income group, but none in the indigent group. f. The most common diseases revealed at the primary care clinics are the acute respiratory infection (26.9%), acute gastritis (10.8%), skin and subcutaneous infection (6.8%). The cases of acute conditions are outnumbered than the cases of chronic condition. g. The clinics, hospitals and other related health institutions are well cooperated in dealing health care services in their own capacities. Considering the above results Medical Aid Program generated satisfactory results at least in the utilization aspect.
Delivery of Health Care ; Gastritis ; Gyeongsangnam-do ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Korea* ; Medical Records ; Middle Aged ; Poverty ; Primary Health Care ; Rural Population ; Seasons ; Skin ; Social Security

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The Korean family planning program began in 1962, originating both in a concern for fmaily well-being and in a concern over a high population growth rate which was cancelling advances in economic capacity, The new program was frank and vigorous in its advocacy of birth control. In recent years, voluntary sterilization as a family planning method has many attributes that cause users of contraceptives to regard it as an ideal method in Korea. A point of these view, author performed a follow-up study on effects of vasectomy and tubal ligation on sociomedical aspects of total 136 men sterilized and 96 women sterilized in SunSan Gun, Kyungpook Province as of Jul6y, 1977. The results were summarized as follows : An average age of vasectomized men was 37.0 and that of tubal ligated women, 34.9. The average duration of marital life was 13.9 years in men sterilized and 14.6 years in women sterilized. An average number of living children at the time of sterilization was 3.6 in men sterilized and that of living children, 3.7 in women sterilized. The most predominant reason for the sterilization was birth control in both (91% in men, 52% in women) and the most common motivating socilitator was family planning field workers (71% in men, 48% in women). About 51 percent of men sterilized and 50 percent of women sterilized were used contraceptive methods before the operation. Experience of induced abortion is reported in 65 percent of wives of men sterilized and 64 percent of women sterilized. In sexual feeling after sterilization, respondents showed increasing coital frequency 21 percent in men sterilized and 10 percent in women sterilized. Sixty-five percent in men sterilized and 64 percent in women sterilized would recommend the operation to others.
Abortion, Induced ; Child ; Coitus ; Contraception ; Contraceptive Agents ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Family Planning Services ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Gyeongsangbuk-do ; Health Personnel ; Humans ; Korea* ; Male ; Population Growth ; Spouses ; Sterilization ; Sterilization, Reproductive* ; Sterilization, Tubal ; Vasectomy

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Animals ; Lipid A* ; Macrophages* ; Mice* ; Phagocytosis* ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha*

This is an attempt to investigate the histopathological change of 246 cases of leprosy especially in the healing stage of leprosy. The results are summerized as follows: 1. Histopathological findings in the healing stage of leprosy, a) More than half of the cases showed only a slight degree of inflammatory cell infiltration in the group that had received treatment for more than 7 years. b) About half the cases (46.9%) showed marked changes of collagen fiber that is mainly swelling and hypertrophy. c) In 40.6% of the cases, elastic fiber manifested hypertrophy, coarseness and curling. d) Changes of elastic fiber was markedly decreased in the cases which had received more than 7 years treatment. e) Inflammatory infiltration was located mainly in the upper dermis and the infiltration around the blood vessels and skin appendages were not changed and remained regardless of duration of treatment. Histopathological findings in the group of lepromatous type. a) The free zone of the upper dermis disappeared in most cases. b) The cases with moderate inflammatory infiltration were most common and they were located mainly in the mid dermis. The degree of infiltration was not markedly changed according to the duration of treatment. c) Inflammatory infiltration around the blood vessels and skin appendages were more common than that of the healing stage. d) Changes of collagen fiber was manifested mainly hypertrophy and swelling and it was recognized throughout the entire course of the treatment. Elastic fiber found to be curled and coarse in most cases of lepromatous leprosy. Atrophy of elastic fiber was observed in cases of long treatment. 3. Histopathological findings in the group of tuberculoid type. Changes of collagen fiber was slighter than that of the lepromatous type and was manifested swelling and hypertrophy. Elastic fiber coarseness was observed in many cases.
Atrophy ; Blood Vessels ; Collagen ; Dermis ; Elastic Tissue ; Hypertrophy ; Leprosy ; Leprosy, Lepromatous ; Skin*

No abstract available.
Health Personnel* ; Humans ; Korea