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KMID : 0387320130230040303
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Korean Journal of Health Policy and Administration
2013 Volume.23 No. 4 p.303 ~ p.313
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Development and Reconsideration of Korea Healthcare System
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Lee Kyu-Sik
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Abstract
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During last 65 years, Korea has achieved very rapid economic growth and social reformation including healthcare system. Many foreigners have praised that Korea healthcare system is very good in the respect of ease accessibility to healthcare under the lowest cost among the industrialized countries. Whole population are covered by the National Health Insurance. Also utilizations of healthcare among different income classes are even. However Korea healthcare system faced with several challenges, in terms of the an aging population and a rise in chronic disease problem, new threats of communicable disease due to globalization, the rapid increase of healthcare expenditure and high financial burden of patients even though they are insured. To cope with these challenges, we need reconsider the healthcare system as followings; to set up ideology of healthcare as normative public goods, to rebuild paradigm of healthcare for 21 century, to reform public health for strengthening health promotion, to develop new method for healthcare management including quality improvement and consumer responsiveness, to build new governance for health and to view new perspective on healthcare as a kind of industry.
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KEYWORD
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Delivery of health care, Development of healthcare, Reconsideration of healthcare, Aging, Chronic disease, Governance, Health industry
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