Regional differences in health screening participation between before and during COVID-19 pandemic.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateNot applicable. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Availability of data and materialsThe datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Competing interestThe authors declare no conflict of interest. FundingThis research received no external funding. Authors’ contributionsJ-HP conceptualized and supervised the study. JP analyzed the data and YK drafted the initial article. JP and J-HP collected and verified the data. JP and YK interpreted the data. YK prepared the final version of the article. All authors reviewed and approved the final version. AcknowledgementsThe authors are grateful to Prof. Sunghong Kang, Department of Health Administration, Inje University, for his support of this research.This research was supported by a grant of the Information and Communications Promotion Fund (ICT promotion fund) through the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Republic of Korea. Competing interest The authors declare no conflict of interest."

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