• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.125-144
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to present a legal improvement plan for health protection of the health-vulnerable class in our society in the 'COVID-19'. The contents of the first study examined the meaning of the existing (social) vulnerable class, and then critically considered the health-vulnerable class as an expanded concept in connection with the social risk of health. The term "vulnerable class" tends to have both meaning as the traditionally marginalized class such as the elderly, the disabled, and women, as well as the condition of having no ability to live due to low income, such as the low-income class. The concept of the health-vulnerable class is meaningful in that it appears as a recently expanded concept as it is linked to the concept of the vulnerable class and social risks such as health threats. The content of the second study looked at the problems that appeared when the health-vulnerable class was used together with the health care-vulnerable class in laws. Due to the laws used in both terms, there was a problem that the social security system related to health and health care could create blind spots. The contents of the third study suggested legal improvement directions for social security measures for health for the underprivileged.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.49-64
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• 2022

This study aims to investigate unmet healthcare needs due to economic or non-economic difficulties among the elderly aged 65 or older. Using Korea Health Panel Survey (KHPS) data from 2018, the elderly are classified into one of four groups (health insurance subscribers, non-take-up, lower income relief, and medical aid recipients) based on their level of medical vulnerability. For hospital or dental care, the prevalence rates of unmet healthcare needs due to economic and non-economic difficulties are 12.6% and 10.6%, respectively. The prevalence rate of unmet healthcare needs due to economic difficulty in the medically vulnerable group was much higher than that of the non-vulnerable group-that is, health insurance subscribers. After controlling for other influential factors, medical vulnerability has a great impact on the prevalence rates of unmet healthcare needs due to economic difficulties. Compared to health insurance subscribers, the non-take-up, the lower relief, and the medical aid recipients are 1.4 times, 3.3 times, and 2.4 times more likely to experience unmet healthcare needs due to economic difficulty, respectively. The results of this study can provide important policy implications for securing essential healthcare resources for the elderly.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.404-414
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• 2021

This study was to investigate the differences of functional health status and medical service experience and needs between general and vulnerable older people in community. This study is a cross-sectional descriptive research. The data obtained through direct visit surveys from November to December 2016. The target population of the study was older people over 65 years old, the final study subjects were 444 older people residing in one district of Seoul. The chi-square test was conducted to confirm the difference in their functional health areas and medical service experiences, and the necessity of medical service utilization in accordance to the social class. In the experience of abnormality in functional health, the vulnerable older people had higher experience in cognitive function, nutrition, hydration, pain, and falling than the general older people. The rate of experience of using medical service to solve the cognitive function problem for general older people was 31.9%, higher than that of the vulnerable older people. In contrast, the medical service utilization needs of the vulnerable older people in the pain management category was significantly higher than that of the general older people. In setting policy of public medical service programs for general and vulnerable older people in community may be differentially developed based on this study. In order to improve the medical accessibility of the vulnerable older people, public medical institutions should be actively supported to overcome obstacles to medical use due to economic barriers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.295-305
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• 2012

This study analyzes actual conditions of private health insurance empirically by using the decision to join Korea Health Panel data. First, the study investigates how sociodemographic factors influence joining the private health insurance. Next, the relationship between the private health insurance membership and the frequency of medical service utilization is analyzed. The main results of these analyses can be summarized as follows: the socially vulnerable are less likely to join private health insurance relative to the middle and upper classes. The frequency of medical service utilization of private insurance members is relatively higher. This fact contains the possibility that the middle and upper classes are able to receive more medical services through private health insurance membership, while the socially vulnerable have difficulty with obtaining medical services in spite of much need. Therefore, policies are needed which manage the private health insurance more effectively and secure the publicity of health service socially.

• 보건세계
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• v.62 no.5
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• pp.24-25
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• 2013

경제위기 이후 노숙인 증가와 글로벌 시대에 따른 다문화 가정 및 외국인 근로자와 핵가족화로 인한 독거노인, 청소년 쉼터 등 의료취약 계층 및 장애인 복지시설, 중증노인 복지시설 등 취약계층에 대한 결핵관리가 필요하다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.560-571
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• 2015

This study aims to examine primary determinant for medical expenditure depending on different age and income brackets. The age and income brackets are simultaneously taken into account for a forming of structural models, and GARCH methodology is utilized in analyzing the model. Empirical evidence reveals that no matter how general medical care system is appropriately operated, medical expenditure is vulnerable in taking care of potential socially-disadvantaged class and the group of catastrophic medical expenditure as long as the age and income brackets concern, simultaneously. It signifies that more elaborately designed medical-related policy seems to be established to improve its effectiveness. On the contrary, ageing society is comparatively well-treated by public health law and act on long-term care insurance for the aged.

• The Monthly Diabetes
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• s.256
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• pp.68-69
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• 2011

`건강'에 대한 의미가 특별해지는 요즘이다. 남녀노소를 불문하고 다양한 질병에 노출되어 있는 시대이니 만큼 정부에서도 촉각을 곤두세우고 의료 환경 개선에 적극 나서고 있다. 이에 따라 지난해에 이어 올해도 보험급여 확대를 통한 건강보험보장성을 강화하고 취약계층에 대한 다양한 의료혜택 제공 등의 정책이 추진된다. 2011년 바뀌는 보건의료제도를 알아보자.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.704-713
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative weight of infectious disease vulnerability indicators that affect the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases in local communities. For this, the infectious disease vulnerability indicators were classified as facilities vulnerable to spread, vulnerable groups of infections, social vulnerable conditions, and response capabilities based on literature and case review, and the relative weights among indicators were determined using Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) by 22 experts. As a result of the analysis, the weight of each sector was found to be the highest in the facilities vulnerable to spread, and the overall weight was highest in the following order: sickbed securing rate(1st), density of religious facilities(2nd), medical personnel rate(3rd), elderly person ratio(4th), and entertainment establishment density(5th). These results can be used to prepare the supporting data necessary for the establishment of infectious disease response policies of local governments.

• 건강소식
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• v.22 no.10 s.239
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• pp.5-7
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• 1998

15대 국회 후반기, 보건복지위원장으로 선출된 김찬우 의원. 보건의료계 출신으로 위원장에 선출된 만큼, 보건의료계에서 거는 기대도 남다르다. 11대에 정계에 입문해, 의사 정치인으로서의 길을 걸어 온 김찬우 위원장은, 세간의 기대 이전에 의사 출신으로서 국민 특히 취약계층의 건강과 복지를 꼭 실현하겠다는 확고한 신념과 계획을 가지고 있다. 김위원장의 취약계층에 대한 사랑은 젊을 때부터 몸소 실천해 온 일이기도 하다. 정치에 입문하기 훨씬 이전부터, 고향인 영덕에서 개원하여 지역주민을 위한 인술을 펼쳐왔던 것. 그를 국회로 보내기를 강력히 희망했던 고향사람들의 의지는, 그저 고향을 빛내기 위한 일이 아니었음을 짐작케 하는 이력이기도 하다. 그의 첫인상은 우선, 소탈하고 서민적이어서 우리 아버지 혹은 이웃과 같은 편안함을 느낄 수 있게 한다. 그러나 대화를 해 나갈수록 일에 대한 강한 열정과 적극성 또한 대단한 사람이 김 위원장이다. 사랑의 의술, 사랑의 정치, 사랑의 보건복지를 위해 한번 화끈하게 뛰어보겠다는 김찬우 위원장의 보건복지정책 구상을 들어본다.

• 한국보건간호학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2005