The health care environment exerts tremendous influence on community health practices.
Here the author mention several major factors that will influence the future plan for health service and health education ; that is, economic problem, the issues of decrement of infectious disease, increment of chronic degenerative disease due to natural increase of the elderly, increased frequently of traffic and industrial accidents and the issues of medical-technological advances etc.
Therefore, special efforts by health personnel should be made to develop health education and health promotion strategies on a community-wide basis.
Accordingly, the flexible accessibility, convenient availability, guaranteed medical service, sufficient supply of health information, and rapidly available medicaid service for special population such as the elderly, the handicapped, the disabled and the poor are considered.
Also, the financial support form the central government and local self-government and active participation of health consumer to health service are needed in Korea.
The role of the health personnel is to elicit, facilitate and maintain health promoting behavior with his and her assurance for health consumers being competent and supported in the voluntary choice of their health promoting activities.
The health promoting activities such as the above mentioned will be produce escalation of their life quality among Koreans.
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