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BACKGROUND: This study purposed to analyze regional factors related to gastric cancer screening rate provided by national cancer screening program in Korea. METHODS: The unit of analysis was administrative districts of si∙gun∙gu level. Dependent variable was regional gastric cancer screening rate provided by national cancer screening program, and regional variables were selected to represent the regional characteristics such as demographic, health behavior and status, socioeconomic, and health resource. Tobit regression was applied for the analysis. RESULTS: Analysis results showed that gastric cancer screening rate was varied depending on regions from 47.8% to 69.1%. Tobit regression showed that gastric cancer screening rate had negative relationships with smoking rate, financial independence rate, and National Health Insurance premium per capita. And regional gastric cancer screening rate had positive relationships with sex ratio and number of gastric cancer screening center. CONCLUSION: Regional characteristics should be considered in establishing regional policies for increasing the gastric cancer screening rate.
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Early Detection of Cancer , Health Behavior , Health Resources , Korea , Mass Screening , National Health Programs , Sex Ratio , Smoke , Smoking , Social Class , Stomach NeoplasmsABSTRACT
Objective:To analyze the correlated factors on the non-public hospitals efficiency performance and compare different types of them in order to provide reference for improving efficiency.Methods:Based on the result of 160 non-public hospitals total efficiency,questionnaire surveys were taken for collecting the information of region,quality,form of ownership,whether invested by the government,whether under the medical insurance,the total amount of employers,bed and service amount as the independent variables,while the total efficiency as the dependent variable to conduct the Tobit multi regression analysis.Results:Access policy,investment policy,nature of ownership,the number of beds,the proportion of physicians,the per capita services,assets and equipment had significant impact.Conclusion:The development of non-public hospital was related to the policy environment,operation mode and internal management.
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Objective To evaluate the traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) output efficiency of the coUnty-level TCM hospitals in Jiangsu Province before and after the reimbursement mechanism reform,and to analyze the factors which affect the efficiency of county-level TCM hospitals.Methods Using DEA to analyze the efficiency of county TCM hospitals,and using the Tobit regression to analyze the influence factors.Results The output efficiency of county-level TCM hospitals in Jiangsu Province is low,and the reimbursement mechanism reform in county-level hospitals of TCM efficiency further decreases;payment model,cost model and revenue model of regression analysis indicate that different factors has different influence on output efficiency of county hospitals of TCM.Conclusion The reimbursement strategy of county-level TCM hospitals should be optimized,the balance of revenue and expenditure structure be adjusted,and the intensity of TCM services reimbursement be increased.