• 보건행정학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.379-381
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• 2019

Korea's healthcare is in great danger of sustainability. In 2020, the baby boomer will begin to be older, and there is no promise that the total fertility rate of 1.0 or less will rebound, and Korea's economic growth rate is predicted to be less than 2%. Together with these phenomena, Plan for Benefit Expansion in Nation Health Insurance (Moon Jae-in Care) will seriously threaten the sustainability of health insurance finance. In addition, health care in Korea has many problems: excessive medical utilization, rapidly increasing elderly medical costs, concentrating patients into big hospitals, low healthcare personnel but many healthcare facilities and equipment, bad quality of primary and mental care, and fast-growing health expenditure. For sustainability, healthcare of Korea should be reformed. The direction of the reform is people-centered and integrated healthcare in the community which is composed of empowering and engaging people, strengthening governance and accountability, reorienting the model of care, coordinating services, and creating an enabling environment.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.345-346
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• 2022

2022 was a time when the global healthcare system was challenged and has grown in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. In addition, various issues accumulated in the process of quantitative growth have emerged in the Korean healthcare system. For instance, problems of sustainability in health insurance finances and removing bubbles from excessive medical utilization should be urgently resolved as tasks that occurred in the process of expanding the coverage of the health insurance system. The deficit of applicants for the pediatrician residency program suggests that expanding health insurance coverage alone has limitations in providing essential medical services. There is a need to incentivize doctors who provide essential medical care services. In 2023, we hope that efforts to enhance and internally reinforce the healthcare system will be concentrated.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2008

Considering the rapid growth of elderly population and the increase of medical demand for aged, many of geriatric hospitals are needed in Korea. On the other hand, supplies of hospitals for acute care are considered to be excessive. So many of small and medium hospitals facing management problems have been converged to geriatric hospitals. These attempts are considered resonable for efficient utilization of health care resources in Korea. This paper aims to identify the concept of geriatric hospital and to analyze the problems and then to seek the alternatives for architectural planning on the basis of surveying the geriatric hospitals converged from hospitals for acute care.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.259-269
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• 2017

본 연구는 의료급여 사례관리의 중재방법별 접근횟수에 따른 효과를 분석함으로써 의료급여 사례관리 중재의 발전을 모색하고자 하였으며, 2010년 3개의 시 군 구에서 고위험군 564명을 대상으로 실시된 사례관리 이차자료 분석연구이다. 중재방법별 접근횟수에 따른 사례관리 전 후 점수는 방문의 경우 자가건강관리능력과 합리적 의료이용에서 유의한 차이를 보였고, 전화는 자가건강관리능력에서, 우편은 건강 삶의 질, 자가건강관리능력, 합리적 의료이용에서 유의한 차이가 있었다. 중재방법별 접근횟수에 따른 의료이용은 방문과 우편이 총급여일수에서 유의한 차이를 보였다. 중재방법별 접근횟수와 사례관리 점수 간의 상관관계에서는 방문이 자가건강관리능력과 음의 관계를, 전화는 합리적 의료이용, 우편은 사례관리 점수 전 영역, 내소는 건강 삶의 질 영역과 양의 관계로 나타났다. 중재방법별 접근횟수와 의료이용 간의 상관관계에서 방문과 자원연계는 총 급여일수와 음의 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 의료급여 과다이용 수급자의 건강 삶의 질 향상과 적정의료이용을 도모하기 위해서는 사례관리 중재방법별 효율적인 접근횟수를 고려하여 사례관리를 실시하는 것이 필요하다.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.341-352
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• 2012

It is well established that excessive sodium intake is related to a higher incidence of chronic diseases such as hypertension, stroke, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease and gastric cancer. Although the upper limit of the current sodium intake guideline by WHO is set at 2,000 mg/day for adults, sodium intake of Koreans is well over 4,700 mg/capita/day implying an urgent need to develop and implement sodium intake reduction policy at the national level. This study investigated the cost-effectiveness of the sodium intake reduction policy, for the first time, in Korea. Analyses were performed using most recent and representative data on national health insurance statistics, healthcare utilization, employment information, disease morbidity/mortality, etc. The socioeconomic benefits of the policy, resulting from reduced morbidity of those relevant diseases, included lower medical expenditures, transportation costs, caregiver cost for inpatients and income losses. The socioeconomic benefits from diminished mortality included reductions in earning losses and welfare losses caused by early deaths. It is estimated that the amount of total benefits of reducing sodium intake from 4.7 g to 3.0 g is 12.6 trillion Korean Won; and the size of its cost is 149 billion Won. Assuming that the effect of sodium intake reduction would become gradually evident over a 5-year period, the implied rate of average return to the sodium reduction policy is 7,790% for the following 25 years, suggesting a very high cost-effectiveness. Accordingly, development and implementation of a mid-to-long term plan for a consistent sodium intake reduction policy is extremely beneficial and well warranted.