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KMID : 1143420200130382813
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Public Health Weekly Report
2020 Volume.13 No. 38 p.2813 ~ p.2818
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National Private-Public Mix Tuberculosis Control Project of the Republic of Korea: Past and Present
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Min Jin-Soo
Park Jae-Seuk
Yang Ji-Yeon
Jang Yoo-Jin
Kim Jae-Tae
Kwon Yun-Hyung
Park Young-Joon
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Abstract
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As the number of tuberculosis (TB) patients treated in private medical institutions increased in the Republic of Korea, the need for intensive and comprehensive TB management emerged. Based on a pilot project for private-public cooperation in 2007, the national private-public mix (PPM) TB control project was officially implemented in 2009 and further expanded nationwide in 2011. The main purpose of the PPM project was to assign TB specialist nurses at the project-participating private medical institutions and to provide patient management, which included counseling and educating TB patients and assessing their adverse drug reactions. Since 2011, the new TB notification rate has declined sharply, which was ascribed to the proper patient management of the PPM project. Implementations of patient-centered care and preventive therapy are key strategies of the Second National TB Control Plan, 2018-2022, and the PPM project played a critical role to end the TB epidemic in the Republic of Korea. This study concluded that investing in implementing bold policies that harness public and private sector capacity and combine collaborative and regulatory approaches among the multi-stakeholders is essential for the future.
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KEYWORD
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Tuberculosis (TB), Private-public cooperation, Private medical institutions, Tuberculosis specialist nurses
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