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KMID : 1146320180060010001
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Journal of Health Technology Assessment
2018 Volume.6 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.3
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Pros and Cons of the Frame of Information Disclosure
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Suh Guk-Hee
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Abstract
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Once searching for a disease, anyone can easily get detailed information about etiology, symptoms and signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis and so on. The number of patients, who finished diagnosis by themselves through internet search and visit a clinic or hospital to get the same medication for treatment suggested by internet, are increasing. This tendency may be caused by mixture of several factors like easy access of internet, distrust toward medical experts, and human right to know. These individuals are showing consumption pattern of purchasing goods from the consumers’ perspective. Even every hospital now calls the patient a customer. The biggest problem with the expertization of non-experts is that non-experts may not be able to properly understand every detailed information as these information truly means. It is a kind of homonym, or it is like a foreign language written in Hangul, especially in the field of medicine and law. Each medical or legal term has a definition but is written in common term for public use, but the public does not know that it is a medical or legal term with a definition. Disbelief of non-experts is much more likely to make them caught up in the market while internet searching to be new consumers for substances or foods that have never had proven efficacy or safety, which will eventually waste valuable personal assets. It is much worse that distrust toward experts cause doctor shopping, which may waste limited health resources unnecessarily. A frame is a mental construct that forms the way of individual world viewpoint. One formed, the frame determines whether good or bad. A frame consists of a series of unconscious cognitive processes so that the presence of a frame can only be seen through the outcome that is revealed. The frame of information disclosure, that individual has a right to know, supports the expertization of non-experts. In the 21st century, public demand for information disclosure has greatly increased. However, market is increasingly inclined to profit from and exploit increasing information disclosure, and to expand those benefits. It is the time to be aware of the seriousness of the unnecessary waste of personal assets and limited health resources due to expanding market.
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KEYWORD
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Information, Disclosure, Frame, Health resource, Market, Expert
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