Cohort Profile: The Korean Vietnam War Veterans’ Health Study Cohort (KOVECO)

Wanhyung Lee, Ui-Jin Kim, Seunghon Ham, Won-Jun Choi, Seunghyun Lee, Jin-Ha Yoon and Seong-Kyu Kang
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Wanhyung Lee: Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon 21565, Korea
Ui-Jin Kim: Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon 21565, Korea
Seunghon Ham: Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon 21565, Korea
Won-Jun Choi: Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon 21565, Korea
Seunghyun Lee: Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea
Jin-Ha Yoon: Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea
Seong-Kyu Kang: Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon 21565, Korea

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 7, 1-7

Abstract: During the Vietnam War, many troops and citizen were exposed to large amounts of Agent Orange (AO), and the hazardous effects of AO are continuously being researched and reported. The Korean Vietnam War Veterans’ Health Study Cohort (KOVECO) is a retrospective cohort to demonstrate the health status of the Korean Vietnam War veterans and their second-generation offsprings. The KOVECO is a collaboration of data from the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs and the National Health Insurance Sharing Service from 2002 to 2018. The study participants were all Korean Vietnam War veterans and their second-generation offsprings, and the references were the general population in which gender and region were matched with the participants. As of 2002, 191,272 Vietnam War veterans (1,000,320 comparisons) and 1,963,402 s-generations (1,173,061 references) were included in the cohort. The KOVECO consists of personal information, medical facility visit information, and general health examination information. The KOVECO could act as a health surveillance system, which would be able to detect long-term health effects caused by exposure to AO and provide a direction for policy making through academic research.

Keywords: KOVECO; Agent Orange; Vietnam War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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