Mental healthcare utilisation by patients before and after receiving paliperidone palmitate treatment: mirror image analyses.

Objectives: To compare mental healthcare use and healthcare professional (HCP) contacts for patients before and after initiation of paliperidone palmitate.

Setting: The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) Biomedical Research Centre Clinical Record Interactive Search.

Participants: We identified all adults with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision: F20.

The role of major donors in health aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

We investigated the major trends in health aid financing in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by identifying the primary donor organizations and examining several data sources to track overall health aid trends. We collected gross disbursements from bilateral donor countries and international organizations toward the DPRK according to specific health sectors by using the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development creditor reporting system database and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs financial tracking service database. We analyzed sources of health aid to the DPRK from the Republic of Korea (ROK) using the official records from the ROK's Ministry of Unification.