SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) in South Korea recently reported a significant rise in the number of individuals seeking treatment for depression, surpassing one million in 2022. Looking back over the past five years, there has been a consistent increase in these numbers. Starting from 753,011 in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –The education ministry said Wednesday it will make a mental health test available at all elementary, middle and high schools starting in the new semester in March in an effort to detect students at risk early amid worsening problems of teenage suicide and loners. The “mind EASY test” is composed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study conducted by the Korea Foundation for Suicide Prevention reveals critical insights into the timeframe between the diagnosis of depressive disorders and subsequent suicides. The findings underscore the urgency of early diagnosis and intervention. According to the report titled “Diagnosis of Depressive Disorders – A Study of Factors [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Institute of Health, part of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, revealed in its recently published ‘Women’s Health Statistics 2023′ that foreign women who have immigrated to Korea on the premise of marriage to Korean men experience depression at rates double that of Korean women. The report [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite a decrease in the number of expectant mothers, the rate of postpartum depression cases per 1,000 expectant mothers has surged by over 50 percent. According to data from the National Health Insurance Service released on Wednesday, the number of postpartum depression patients diagnosed within one year of giving birth [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – As more and more people in their 60s and older in Korea are dealing with depression, there’s a growing need to pay attention to mental health among the elderly, especially as the country is moving towards having a significant elderly population. In 2021, statistics from the Health Insurance Review and [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — People with depression are more likely to exhibit increased gene expression associated with inflammation, a research showed Tuesday. A joint research team from Korea University, Konkuk University, and Handong Global University has confirmed that animals exhibiting depressive behavior show an increased expression of genes associated with inflammation control. Based [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans, who have higher levels of mistrust towards society, are more likely to experience depression, a report showed Sunday. The study was conducted by a research team from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, who analyzed the data of 3,018 South Koreans aged 19-34. The [...]
SUWON, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The risk of contracting depression is higher among people in the lowest income tier due to COVID-19, depending on their respective economic circumstances, a study showed Thursday. The Gyeonggi Research Institute conducted a survey of 2,000 people living in 17 cities and provinces in the country, which showed the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of young mothers in South Korea are facing a high risk of depression, a study showed Tuesday. The National Youth Policy Institute and the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs published a joint report that said young mothers under 24 years of age struggle to make [...]