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KMID : 0904520160430010115
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Health and Medical Sociology
2016 Volume.43 No. 1 p.115 ~ p.138
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Trend of Social Medicine Researches of Korea
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Bae Jae-Kyoung
Kim Yeon-Yong
Lee Jin-Seok
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Abstract
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Recently, social medicine researches are vigorously being studied in South Korea. Particularly, these researches are contributing to public’s broad awareness about a plethora of major factors for individual health, conducting studies of health behaviors and health inequality. This study is aimed to figure out the current social medicine studies and reach a conclusion about future development. In this study, 4 major medical journals in South Korea were studied and the whole researches, within social medicine section published in 2004, 2009 and 2014, were analyzed. The analysis will include each research’s subject, method, data source, character, duration, and researcher’s major.
As a consequence of the analysis of 278 researches, this revealed that health related behavior, health economics, health status, health service accounted for 70% of the whole thesis subjects.
Regarding methodology, quantitative research took up 99.6% and qualitative research did 0.4%. Among the quantitative research, 88.1% was cross-sectional studies. Using secondary data accounted for 56.5% and, especially, administrative data took a large portion. Also, this showed distribution ratios as follows; problem-finding study (63.0%), problem-analyzing study (20.9%), problem-solving study (4.0%) and multidisciplinary study (10.7%).
Domestic researches rapidly resulted in its quantitative growth in a short period time. However, these also showed unbalanced research subject, limited methodology, inactive multidisciplinary study necessary for study in social medicine field. Less weight on problem-solving study is another crucial challenge to overcome. Therefore, these will be in need of researchers’ effort and attention, institutional and financial support to address these issues for the future.
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KEYWORD
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Social Medicine, Trend analysis
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