Favorable and unfavorable health conditions within OECD countries: An exploratory study
Objectives: This study compared the physical, mental, and social health levels among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Methods: We sampled from 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries and divided physical, mental, and social health i...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/2050312117753847 2023-05-15T16:50:32+02:00 Favorable and unfavorable health conditions within OECD countries: An exploratory study Park, Myung-Bae Nam, Eun Woo Kim, Chun-Bae Lee, Hae Jong Lee, Kwang-Soo Koh, Sang-Baek 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312117753847 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2050312117753847 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/2050312117753847 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license SAGE Open Medicine volume 6, page 205031211775384 ISSN 2050-3121 2050-3121 General Medicine journal-article 2018 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312117753847 2022-04-14T04:42:27Z Objectives: This study compared the physical, mental, and social health levels among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Methods: We sampled from 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries and divided physical, mental, and social health into three domains based on World Health Organization health definitions. Results: A multivariate hierarchical cluster analysis was conducted to group countries that were similar in terms of health. Regarding physical health, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and ten more countries reported favorable health conditions. For mental health, Australia, Canada and eight more countries revealed favorable conditions. Finally, in terms of social health, Austria, Finland, Iceland, and seven more countries reported favorable conditions. Sweden and Switzerland reported the best health conditions aggregated across all three domains. Conversely, Estonia, Hungary, and Turkey reported comparatively poorer health across all three domains when compared with other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Conclusions: We suggested that mental health policy should be further strengthened in cases of Korea and Japan. In case of the Eastern Bloc countries, health policies should be established focusing on health equity for effective improvement of indicators. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Canada SAGE Open Medicine 6 205031211775384 |
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Objectives: This study compared the physical, mental, and social health levels among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Methods: We sampled from 34 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries and divided physical, mental, and social health into three domains based on World Health Organization health definitions. Results: A multivariate hierarchical cluster analysis was conducted to group countries that were similar in terms of health. Regarding physical health, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and ten more countries reported favorable health conditions. For mental health, Australia, Canada and eight more countries revealed favorable conditions. Finally, in terms of social health, Austria, Finland, Iceland, and seven more countries reported favorable conditions. Sweden and Switzerland reported the best health conditions aggregated across all three domains. Conversely, Estonia, Hungary, and Turkey reported comparatively poorer health across all three domains when compared with other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Conclusions: We suggested that mental health policy should be further strengthened in cases of Korea and Japan. In case of the Eastern Bloc countries, health policies should be established focusing on health equity for effective improvement of indicators. |
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Favorable and unfavorable health conditions within OECD countries: An exploratory study |
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Favorable and unfavorable health conditions within OECD countries: An exploratory study |
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Favorable and unfavorable health conditions within OECD countries: An exploratory study |
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