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KMID : 1142920170010010195
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Public Health Affairs
2017 Volume.1 No. 1 p.195 ~ p.203
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Role of hospitals of Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service as public hospitals
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Kim Ro-Eul
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Abstract
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The present study examined the state of operation of hospitals of Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service, their role as public hospitals; and proposed measures to strengthen their public interest functions.
In 2016, the occupancy rate of directly managed hospitals by industrial accident patients was 69.6% inpatients and 37.6% outpatients, and the rate of hospital bed occupancy was 92.0%, which was slightly lower than that of public hospitals. The role of directly managed hospitals as public hospitals is developing and supplying a safety net for industrial medicine. They provide industrial medicine in medically underserved areas; and provide low-profit medical care such as rehabilitation therapies, long-term patients, and pneumoconiosis care. They also provide emergency medical services in medically underserved areas.
The measures proposed to strengthen the public hospital functions of directly managed hospitals are as follows. First, the capacity to provide high quality treatments and rehabilitation therapies as public industrial medicine facilities for industrial accident patients should be strengthened. Second, it is necessary to prepare countermeasures to prevent blind spots by carefully analyzing patients whose visitation to directly managed hospitals is less than that of the entire industrial accident patients. Third, effective intervention programs for mental health problems of industrially injured workers should be strengthened. Fourth, it is necessary to improve the functions of emergency rooms to strengthen the provision of emergency medical services in medically underserved areas. Fifth, medical services for vulnerable social groups should be expanded like public hospitals. Sixth, medical services for foreign workers involved in industrial accidents should be strengthened. Lastly, directly managed hospitals should strengthen their policies and research functions to ensure workers' compensation insurance.
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KEYWORD
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hospitals of Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service, public hospitals, industrial accident
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