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The Use and expenditure of the Complementary and Alternative medicine in Korea
Journal of Korean Medicine / Journal of Korean Medicine, (P)1010-0695; (E)2288-3339
2004, v.25 no.1, pp.142-151
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(2004). The Use and expenditure of the Complementary and Alternative medicine in Korea. Journal of Korean Medicine, 25(1), 142-151.
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Objectives To document the use and out-of-pocket expenditure of complementary and alternative medicine(CAM) in Korean adult population. Methods Nationwide, random-sampled, and population-weighted telephone survey was conducted. The sample size of respondents was 1,004(age over 18). The respondents were asked about their use, out-of pocket expenditure of CAM in the past 12 months. SAS 8.0 statistic package was used for checking the relevance between each variables by performing χ2-test and variance evaluation. Results In 2001, 64.0% of people experienced more than one alternative therapy and the beneficiary took therapy average figure of 2.07. Alternative therapies were generally used for health promotion(73.7%) rather than curing the disease(26.3%). The most common therapies included Medication(30.2%), Physical-therapy(21.9%) health implements(20.8%), herb medication(19.2%), diet therapy(14.3%) etc. Average annual out-of-pocket expenditure was ￦192,186. Use varied according to age, living province, income, and education, while cost expenditure did according to sex, health condition, income, education. Conclusions The use of CAM in Korea is very large and the expenditure for them is 22.6% of national medical expenditure. It shows great need of political and academic approach.
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- CAM, Alternative medicine, Utilization, Health expenditure, CAM, Alternative medicine, Utilization, Health expenditure
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