Heejo Koo

Biographic Data

ID7747459
NAMEHeejo Koo
GIVEN NAMESHeejo
FAMILY NAMEKoo
SIGNATUREKOO H
AFFILIATIONSYonsei University
ORCID0000-0003-4567-4247
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Collateral impact of the Covid−19 pandemic on the use of healthcare resources among people with disabilities

    Open AccessMinjeong Sohn, Heejo Koo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Objective: We assessed the collateral impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare service use among people with disabilities. Methods: We utilized the COVID-19 database from the Korean National Health Insurance Service claims from 2015 until June 2020. We included 5,850 people with disabilities and matched 5,850 without disabilities among those who were neither tested nor diagnosed with COVID-19. We used a quasi-experimental setting with a COVI…

  • Effect of the age of visual impairment onset on employment outcomes in South Korea

    Open AccessBoyoung Jeon, Heejo Koo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    In prime-aged adults, higher monthly wages among permanent employees showed that they were more likely to continue their original work, whereas in late-middle-aged adults, adult-onset disabilities were associated with a higher employment rate and higher wages for temporary jobs, suggesting the need for further investigation into job quality. These findings indicate a need for differentiated policy approaches considering the onset age of visual im…