Research

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✏️Han JH, Ha S, Choi M, Park H, Lee EH, Yu S, et al. What silence reveals: the quiet abandonment of free health care in North Korea. BMJ Global Health. 2025;10:e021019. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2025-021019

✏️Hanul Park, Minjae Choi, Joshua Kirabo Sempungu, Joon Hee Han, Sujeong Yu, Eun Hae Lee, Yo Han Lee. How family structure shapes adolescent mental health under financial hardship?. Journal of Affective Disorders. Volume 392. 2026. 120240. ISSN 0165-0327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.120240.

✏️Minjae Choi, Sujeong Yu, Hanul Park, Joshua Kirabo Sempungu, Joon Hee Han, Eun Hae Lee, Yo Han Lee. Suicide trends and patterns in young adults across global regions and selected major countries worldwide from the World Health Organization mortality database, 2001–2020. Preventive Medicine. 2025. 108397. ISSN 0091-7435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2025.108397.

✏️Minjae Choi, Joshua Kirabo Sempungu, Hanul Park, Sujeong Yu, Eun Hae Lee, Joon Hee Han, Yo Han Lee. A network approach to understanding psychosocial and economic factors in suicidal ideation among young adults. Public Health. Volume 247. 2025. 105873. ISSN 0033-3506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105873.

✏️Choi M, Sempungu JK, Han JH, Kim M-H, Lee EH, Lee YH. Perception of economic inequality and its association with depressive symptoms and suicide ideation among young adults in South Korea. BJPsych Open. 2025;11(4):e148. doi:10.1192/bjo.2025.785 

✏️Choi M, Sempungu JK, Han JH, Kim MH, Lee YH. Association Between Weekday-To-Weekend Sleep Differences and Poor Mental Health in Young Adulthood. J Korean Med Sci. 2025 Jul;40:e211. https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2025.40.e211 

✏️ Minjae Choi, Joshua Kirabo Sempungu, Joon Hee Han, Eun Hae Lee, Mi-Hyui Kim, Shu-Sen Chang, Myung Ki, Yo Han Lee. Profiles of suicide reasons and their associations with suicide-related behaviour in South Korea. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2025.119605. ISSN 0165-0327.

✏️ Mi-Hyui Kim, Minjae Choi, Joshua Kirabo Sempungu, Joon Hee Han, Eun Hae Lee, Giryeon Bae, Dayea Kim, Hyejin Jang, Yo Han Lee. Structure, function, and impact of hospital accreditation in South Korea: a narrative review. Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy. 2025 March; 9. 

✏️ Sempungu JK, Choi M, Lee EH, Kim MH, Han JH, Lee YH. The Vaccine Cold Chain in North Korea: Assessing the Capacity to Store Routine Vaccines and Potential to Support Pandemic Vaccination Activities. J Korean Med Sci. 2024 Nov;40:e36.

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💡통일보건의학 연구개발 활성화를 위한 데이터베이스 구축 및 활용방법론 개발 연구 3차년도(한국연구재단, 2025. 3. 1. ~ 2026. 2. 28.)
      - 연구책임자: 이요한

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✏️ Global Nutrition Target Collaborators. Global, regional, and national progress towards the 2030 global nutrition targets and forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet. 2024 Dec 21;404(10471):2543-2583. 

✏️ Lee EH, Yoon S, Hur R, Choi M, Lee YH.  Effectiveness Evaluation Study of the Autonomous Analysis and Review Pilot Project.  HIRA 2024;4:195-213. 

✏️Lin CY, Choi M, Lee YH, Ki M, Hsu CY, Chang SS. Exploring possible causes of lower-than-expected suicide rates in Taiwan and South Korea during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic: a time trend analysis by sex, age, and method. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2024 Dec;78(12):800-809.

✏️GBD 2021 Global Stillbirths Collaborators. Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet. 2024 Nov 16;404(10466):1955-1988.

✏️GBD 2021 Stroke Risk Factor Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Neurol. 2024 Oct;23(10):973-1003.

✏️ GBD 2021 Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators. Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Public Health. 2024 Oct;9(10):e729-e744.

✏️Choi M, Sempungu JK, Kim MH, Han J, Lee YH. Happiness and Its Association With Suicide Ideation and Attempt in Korea: The Roles of Socio-Environmental, Psychological, and Health-Related Factors. J Korean Med Sci. 2024 Aug;39(44):e283.

✏️ Choi, M., Sempungu, J.K., Lee, E.H. et al. Living longer but in poor health: healthcare system responses to ageing populations in industrialised countries based on the Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. BMC Public Health 24, 576 (2024).  

✏️ Choi M, Sempungu JK, Lee EH, Lee YH. Differential trends and patterns of sociodemographic disparities in burden of mental disorders, substance use disorder and self-harm across age groups: ecological study in 204 countries using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. BJPsych Open. 2024;10(3):e89.

✏️GBD 2019 Asia and All Cancers Collaborators. Temporal patterns of cancer burden in Asia, 1990-2019: a systematic examination for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2024 Jan 2;21:100333.

✏️ Kim YS, Noh JW, Lee YH, Kim SG. Mid-Term Strategic Plan for the Public Health and Medical Care Cooperation in the Korean Peninsula. J Korean Med Sci. 2024 Jan 29;39(4):e39.

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💡통일보건의학 연구개발 활성화를 위한 데이터베이스 구축 및 활용방법론 개발 연구 2차년도(한국연구재단, 2024. 3. 1. ~ 2025. 2. 28.)
      - 연구책임자: 이요한

💡우간다 마케레레대학 교육개선사업 F/S(타당성 조사) 용역(한국수출입은행, 2023. 10. 4. ~ 2024. 9. 30.)
      - 연구책임자: 임재석  /  공동연구원 : 이요한 / 연구보조원 : Sempungu JK, 한준희

💡요양병원 간병서비스 제도화 방안 연구(대한요양병원협회, 2023. 10. 11. ~ 2024. 4. 11.)
      - 연구책임자: 이요한  /  공동연구원 : 장원모, 김채봉, 최민재 / 연구보조원 : 김미희, 이은해, 한준희