Chen Yuh-Jyue, Lee Meng-Chih, Chi Ching-Shiang, Shu San-Ging
Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, No. 160, Sec. 3, Chung-Kung Road, Taichung, Taiwan.
Acta Paediatr Taiwan. 2003 Mar-Apr;44(2):75-81.
To understand the adolescent health status in Taiwan, we collected hospitalization data of Taiwanese adolescents in 1997 under the execution of National Health Insurance (NHI). Then 5% of the data was selected with systematic sampling method by National Health Research Institute (NHRI) and was categorized according to age, gender, disease pattern and specialty. The results showed there were totally 160, 120 adolescent admissions in 1997, about 6.81% of total population admissions. There were more female than male admissions and more late adolescent than early adolescent admissions. In clinical disorders, injury was the leading cause of hospitalization for male adolescent and female early adolescent admissions. Delivery was the leading cause of hospitalization for female late adolescent admissions. The most common specialty admissions among early adolescents were for pediatrics, followed by surgery, and then general medicine. Among late adolescents, the most common specialty admissions were for surgery, followed by obstetrics and gynecology, and then general medicine. In conclusion, the most common reasons of adolescence hospitalization were related to behavioral factors rather than disease processes, and adolescent admissions by specialty were mostly non-professional.
为了解台湾青少年的健康状况，我们收集了1997年在全民健康保险（NHI）实施下台湾青少年的住院数据。然后，国家卫生研究院（NHRI）采用系统抽样方法选取了5%的数据，并按年龄、性别、疾病类型和专科进行分类。结果显示，1997年青少年住院患者共有160120例，约占总住院人数的6.81%。女性住院人数多于男性，青少年晚期住院人数多于青少年早期。在临床疾病方面，伤害是男性青少年和女性青少年早期住院的主要原因。分娩是女性青少年晚期住院的主要原因。青少年早期最常见的专科住院科室是儿科，其次是外科，然后是普通内科。在青少年晚期，最常见的专科住院科室是外科，其次是妇产科，然后是普通内科。总之，青少年住院最常见的原因与行为因素有关，而非疾病过程，且按专科划分的青少年住院大多并非专业性疾病。
