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BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding is not common in Korea despite its known benefits. The role of family physicians is important in promoting breast-feeding since they can provide prenatal and postnatal care on...
BACKGROUND: Real performance in practice is one of the criteria by which residency training program can be evaluated. We surveyed the difficult problems in which family physicians underwent in their...
Park JB, Choi TI, Kim JS, Jung DS, Kim KN, Lee SY, Kang JH
KMID: 2294621
J Korean Acad Fam Med.
2006 Feb;27(2):104-112.
BACKGROUND: Recently, childhood obesity has been increased and has resulted in serious health problems. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of childhood obesity and its...
BACKGROUND: Community-acquired pneumonia is one of the main causes of hospitalization and death, especially in elderly patients. There have been many studies on prognosis for community-acquired pneumonia, but few in...
BACKGROUND: In an effort to use cigarette warning labels as a means for reducing smoking rates, this study examined current cigarette warning messages and newly designed pictorial warning labels.
METHODS: From...
Jang JY, Park JM, Choi JS, Noh MS, Kong EH, Eo WK, Kim HY
KMID: 2294622
J Korean Acad Fam Med.
2006 Feb;27(2):113-119.
BACKGROUND: There have been bone mass studies for the treatment of osteoporosis, nonetheless, little attention has been paid to the management of osteopenia. This study was to evaluate the effects...