Ohsaki National Health Insurance Cohort Study
Initiatives
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To examine the impact of health-related lifestyle and utilization of preventive health services such as screening program upon medical care utilization and its costs. This knowledge would lead us to better provision of cost-effective preventive health services.
* Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 1994
- End Year
- 1998
- Funding
- Scientific Research Grant for Community Health Care (Chiiki Hoken Kenkyuu Jigyou) of Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Collection of data on medical care use and its costs for each subject from the monthly National Health Insurance (NHI) claim history files of the Miyagi NHI Association since January 1995.
Marker Paper
Tsuji I, Nishino Y, Ohkubo T, Kuwahara A, Ogawa K, Watanabe Y, Tsubono Y, Bando T, Kanemura S, Izumi Y, Sasaki A, Fukao A, Nishikori M, Hisamichi S. A prospective cohort study on National Health Insurance beneficiaries in Ohsaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan: study design, profiles of the subjects and medical cost during the first year. J Epidemiol. 1998 Dec;8(5):258-63. doi: 10.2188/jea.8.258. PMID: 9884474.
PUBMED 9884474
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 52,029
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Aged from 40 to 79 years living in the catchment area of Ohsaki Public Health Center, Miyagi, Japan.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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