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KMID : 0371019970300040870
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
1997 Volume.30 No. 4 p.870 ~ p.883
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The Possibility of Regional Health Insurance Data in Blueprinting the Local Community Health Plan
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Lee Sang-Yi
Kim Cheol-Woong
Moon Ok-Ryun
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Abstract
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The health center has to play an important role in promoting community health and satisfying a variety of community health needs and demands in the decentralized Korea. The nearly enacted-Oinmu_nity Health Act compels every health c enter to make its own health plans which intend to deal with local health problems an I plan its future health care. This obligation is obviously a big burden to most health centers. They do not have experiences in and abilities of making local health care plans:´` In order to establish a systematic community health plan, health centers have to concentrate their efforts on enhancing the ability of making health care plan through, gathering and analysing the local health informations. However, it is very difficult in´,,reality. This is simply because it will take long time to accomplish these activities. ltl seems natural that various professionals and researchers participate in carrying out ´´,the process of making community health plan. in the initial stage.
No standardized methodology and analysing framework exist even I in the health professional society. Nonetheless, it is common to introduce survey research methodologies in analysing consumer´s health care utilization and cost, and in identifying factors influencing health behaviors. Many researchers and professionals´i´´i have applied social survey methodologies in obtaining information on providers and ´jhealth policy makers as well. The authors have found that few studies have ever utilized local health data stored at the self-employed medical insurance society as the data source of planning activities.
The purpose of this study is to illustrate the usefulness of the data stored at the Sung-Dong Gu Self-employed Medical Insurance Society in establishing the community health plan. The major contents of this study are as folloj s
1. Frequency of utilization by age, area, sex, type of medical ! care institutions, and some major diseases.
2. Medical treatment by type of medical care institutions, by classification of 21 eases, by frequency of three-character categories.
3. Medical treatment of major neoplasm and some chronic diseases by age, sex, and area.
The conclusion of this study is that it is of great potentiality ;to find out the local health problems and to use them in blueprinting the community; health plan through comparing the frequency of medical utilization analyzed by a variety of variables with NHI health data or the health data from survey research.
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KEYWORD
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self-employed medical insurance data, community health plan
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