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KMID : 0365220130500020113
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Korean Journal of Public Health
2013 Volume.50 No. 2 p.113 ~ p.127
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Where can we find “Publicness” in Korea Health Policy?
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Kim Jae-Won
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Abstract
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The Purpose of this review is to establish the concept of “publicness” which is applicable to health area and to discuss the degree of publicness in Korean healthcare or health policy. Traditionally, public refers to something related to government. However, as Habermas systemized the concept of “public sphere” in 1962, it became to embrace room between the market and the government. In this article, publicness is defined as a character that is emerging when a group of people or an organization does certain kinds of activities in pursuit of public interest with procedural justice through participation of many people. The authority to do these activities can be committed to another specific entity(e.g. government), and committed entity’s activities are considered as public. Still, civic participation matters. Healthcare pursues public interest ? improvement of health rights of society members ? and the principal bodies of healthcare are the government and the citizens. In procedural perspective, though lack of participation of citizens, the government as committed subject exercise powerful authority on health care service providers for justice. From this view, private organizations or institutions can have publicness, but the ceiling of that is lower than public owned organizations/institutions, because of other characteristics of public organizations as Thompkins(2005) maintained. To fortify specified functions and roles for public institutions, they should enhance procedural and contentual publicness through their features only public organizations/ institutions can have. Also, they should develop tools to measure their publicness.
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KEYWORD
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Publicness, Public, Public healthcare
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