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KMID : 0613620210410020027
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Health Social Welfare Review
2021 Volume.41 No. 2 p.27 ~ p.43
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Healthcare Resources Management for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative and Institutional Study on the Case of ROK and Japan
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Kim Min-Ji
Lee Dong-Hyun
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Abstract
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The COVID-19, declared as a pandemic, is a type of disaster that is defined as a situation where resources are insufficient to meet healthcare needs. Timely arrangement of healthcare resources in the right place can reduce disaster impact.
The purpose of this study was to confirm the planned resource utilization strategy through a legal review that is the basis for disaster response, and to form issues and evidences for improving response competencies. This study employed a most similar systems design method. Japan was selected as a comparison country in consideration of regional, economic factors, and healthcare system, This study reviewed the Framework Acts of Korea and Japan on the Prevention and Management of Infectious Diseases, using the WHO’s “Pandemic Influenza Risk Management”. Although the legal provisions on human resources, supplies, structures and systems specified all the components in legal provision, there was lack of legal provisions on pandemic situations. In addition, this study found that Korea’s relatively well-organized pandemic responses were an outcome, in large part, of an effective pandemic response leadership and technological innovations and conceptual shifts that helped enhance response capacity. This study suggests that the management and healthcare resource management as a part of disaster response should be applied as a consideration for the revising pandemic related laws and policies, and that the connection should be enhanced between act on infectious disease and framework act on the management of disasters and safety.
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KEYWORD
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COVID-19, Pandemic, Disaster, Resource Management, Comparative and Institutional Study
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