• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.165-177
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• 2012

This study examined market size of private health insurance premium and individual characteristics associated with the market size change in Korea, using wave 1 (2008) and wave 2 (2009) of Korea Health Panel. The market size was 24.4 trillion Korean won in 2008 and 26.9 trillion in 2009. The increase rate of private health insurance premium among those who were the elderly, single, or the poor was higher than that among their counterpart respectively. Health status and utilization were insignificant in determining the increase rate of private health insurance premium. These findings were more obvious among the uninsured in 2008 than among the insured in 2008. The increase of private health insurance premium in Korea imply the increase of willingness-to-pay for health risk through private sector. The authors suggest policy intervention for accessability to health care for the underprivileged and weak through enlargement of Korean social health insurance benefit.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제62권2호
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• pp.279-306
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• 2010

본 연구는 정책네트워크이론을 적용하여 한국과 일본의 노인장기요양(개호)보험제도의 정책결정과정을 상호 비교, 분석하고 우리나라에의 정책적 이론적 시사점을 도출하고자 하였다. 연구결과로는, 한국과 일본 모두 노인요양(개호)문제에 대한 정책의제형성은 정부 주도로 이루어지고 정책과정단계별 특성에 따라 정책참여자의 범위가 확대되었으나, 두 나라간 노인요양문제에 대한 정책의제형성 배경에는 차이가 있음을 알 수 있다. 그리고 두 나라 모두 정책의제형성 초기단계부터 정책참여자간의 상호 작용은 비교적 협력적이었으나, 제도골격이 국민들에게 공표되면서 급격히 갈등관계 내지 비판적으로 변화해 갔으며, 정책과정단계별 특성에 따라 주도적 참여자들의 역할이 두드러졌고, 연계형태도 비슷한 모습을 보여주고 있다. 또한 정책과정별로 정책참여자의 범위와 정책산출에의 정책참여자들의 의견 반영 정도가 다르지만, 한국, 일본 모두 정부주도로 노인요양문제에 대한 정책 추진결과로 정책의제형성기부터 국회심의결정기까지 매우 유사한 정책네트워크모형을 보여주고 있다. 정책참여자의 범위 뿐만 아니라 개방적인 상호작용시스템 구축의 중요성, 개호보험제도 정책결정과정의 많은 한계점, 과도한 정부주도 정책네트워크로 인한 정책산출에 정부의지가 너무 많이 반영되는 단점 등이 본 연구의 시사점으로 볼 수 있다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.107-129
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• 2008

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine Korean government's efforts in policy making and implementation regarding the Korea National Health Insurance System in the past and suggest a new paradigm for future policy changes. The structural and political characteristics of the Korea National Health Insurance, where health care services are provided almost exclusively by the private providers and funding for health comes equally from public and private sources, imply persistent difficulties in the operation of the system This may partially explain why the Korean system has continually experienced conflicts among stakeholders whenever there was an attempt to change policy. In this paper, we discuss four cases to illustrate such difficulties and barriers. We propose that in order to address these challenges and reduce policy errors as well as unintended results, it is necessary to restructure policy making process from being oriented toward 'quantitative expansion' to 'qualitative maturity', from a 'linear thinking' to a 'system thinking', from taking a 'top-down' to a 'governance and participatory' decision making process.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.261-271
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• 2021

Background: In 2018, the government increased the fee for the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image deciphering services of the external hospital to discourage the redundant MRI scan and to induce appropriate use of the MRI services. It is important to evaluate the effect of the policy to provide the basis for establishing other MRI-related policies. Methods: The healthcare data of the patients who had brain MRI scans were organized by episode and analyzed using the panel study in order to find out the effect of the MRI-related policy on the substitution effect and the medical expenses. Results: As a result of the increase in the fee of deciphering the MRI image, there has been an uplift in deciphering the MRI scan of the external hospital. It implies that more hospitals chose to use the MRI scan taken by other clinics or hospitals, rather than the MRI scan taken at their own facilities. Conclusion: The research results imply that a policy that facilitates the exchange of the medical image data between the hospitals is needed in order to establish an efficient management system of the healthcare resources. Such improvement is expected to reduce the social cost and contribute to the stability in the finance of national health insurance.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.263-271
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• 2018

Health technology assessment (HTA) is defined as multidisciplinary policy analysis to look into the medical, economic, social, and ethical implications of the development, distribution, and use of health technology. Following the recent changes in the social environment, there are increasing needs to improve Korea's healthcare environment by, inter alia, assessing health technologies in an organized, timely manner in accordance with the government's strategies to ensure that citizens' medical expenses are kept at a stable level. Dedicated to HTA and research, the National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA) analyzes and provides grounds on the clinical safety, efficacy, and economic feasibility of health technologies. HTA offers the most suitable grounds for decision making not only by healthcare professionals but also by policy makers and citizens as seen in a case in 2009 where research revealed that glucosamine lacked preventive and treatment effects for osteoarthritis and glucosamine was subsequently excluded from the National Health Insurance's benefit list to stop the insurance scheme from suffering financial losses and citizens from paying unnecessary medical expenses. For the development of HTA in Korea, the NECA will continue exerting itself to accomplish its mission of providing policy support by health technology reassessment, promoting the establishment and use of big data and HTA platforms for public interest, and developing a new value-based HTA system.

• 한국사회정책
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.345-375
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• 2018

본 연구는 OECD 12개 국가를 대상으로, 실업보험, 사회부조, 그리고 적극적 노동시장 정책의 제도배열로서 '실업안전망 정책조합'을 분석하며 레짐별 유사성 및 특수성을 구체화한다. 이를 통해 해당 국가들이 실업자에 대한 사회보장정책을 어떻게 구성하여 이들의 실직과 소득보장 문제에 대응하는지 비교분석하였고, 방법론으로는 퍼지셋 이상형 분석(fuzzy-set ideal type analysis)을 활용하였다. 2005년과 2010년의 정책조합을 분석한 결과, '부조형', '재진입과 소득보장 결합형', '재진입 집중형', '광범위한 실업안전망형', '부실한 실업안전망형', '소득보장 집중형'으로 대상 국가들의 실업안전망이 유형화되었다. 우리나라의 경우, 지속적으로 부실한 실업안전망 유형에 속하였고, 사회보험, 사회부조 그리고 적극적노동시장의 퍼지점수가 모두 본 연구의 국가들과 비교하였을 때 최하위권이다. 부실한 실업안전망 유형에서도 구체적인 정책별 소속 점수를 살펴보면 사회부조 정책의 소속점수가 그나마 다소 높고 적극적노동시장 정책의 소속점수는 매우 낮았다. 부실한 실업안전망 유형에 속한 우리나라의 경우, 자산조사 방식의 소득보장제에 의존하여 급여를 제공하는 것은 재정적으로 부담이 가장 적은 정책으로 분석결과에서도 확대경향이 나타났으나, 본 연구는 장기적으로 사회부조 방식이 불안정노동자 및 실업자의 소득보장에 얼마나 지속적인 효과를 가질 수 있는지 문제제기한다. 본 연구는 국가 간 비교연구를 수행함으로써 실업안전망 비교연구에 대한 이론적 실증적 논의에 기여하고, 실업과 관련한 정책들을 조합으로 구성하여 분석함으로써 향후 노동시장 변화와 정합한 실업안전망 설계를 위한 함의를 제공하고자 하였다.

• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제57권9호
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• pp.496-503
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• 2019

A dental implant has been covered by National Health Insurance (NHI) in Korea since 2014. Every year the age group covered was extended and the out-of-pocket payment was decreased. This study analyzed the dental implant utilization rate by the National Health Insurance customized DB during the last 5 years. As a result, the utilization rate has been rapidly increasing steeply. The differences by age and sex in the utilization rate of dental implants were explored. The inclusion of a dental implant in the NHI system contributed to improving the dental accessibility of the elderly in Korea. However, a deep discussion is needed whether it is appropriately provided to necessary patients. The utilization rate will increase further in the future. Therefore, continuous monitoring and critical policy review should be continued.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.165-184
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• 2005

1990년대 동안 일본사회를 뜨겁게 달구었던 공적개호보험이 2000년 4월 1일 마침내 시행되었다. 이 새로운 사회보험의 도입은 사회정책 연구자들에게 흥미로운 연구주제를 던져준다. 왜냐하면, 세계화의 진전에 따라 대부분의 선진 산업국가에서 복지부문의 축소 내지는 현상유지가 진행 중인 가운데 복지후진국인 일본에서는 복지확대정책이 시행된 것으로 보이기 때문이다. 이것은 세계화의 압력에 직면하여 모든 복지국가들의 축소가 목격될 것이라는 복지국가 연구자들의 일반적인 예상과 반대되는 것이다. 이 연구의 일차적인 목적은 공적개호보험의 도입이 복지국가 연구자들에게 던져준 수수께끼를 푸는데 있다. 이 연구의 가정은 공적개호보험이 사회보험의 외양을 갖고 있음에도 불구하고 기본적으로는 국가복지의 축소를 지향하며 장기간병서비스분야에서 국가의 책임감소와 개인의 책임증가를 가져온다고 하는 것이다. 이러한 가정이 경험적으로 입증된다면, 공적개호보험의 도입은 일본의 전통적인 축소지향 사회정책이나 현재 세계적으로 진행되고 있는 복지국가 위축의 추세를 충실히 따르는 것으로 해석될 수 있다. 이를 위해서 이 연구는 공적개호보험이 초래한 다양한 결과들에 대한 종단적인 비교분석을 시도한다. 이 연구의 주요 관심대상은 사회보험으로서의 공적개호보험의 소득재분배 효과, 공적개호보험의 도입으로 인해 촉발된 장기간병서비스 분야의 상업화 경향, 공적개호보험 도입에 따른 장기간병 관련 사회보장제도의 재정에 대한 주체별 부담 변화의 추이 등이다. 이 연구는 일본의 장기간병 관련 사회보장제도의 성격이 공적개호보험의 도입을 전후하여 어떻게 변화하였는가를 몇 가지 지표를 통해 분석함으로써 공적개호보험의 신자유주의적 성격을 뚜렷하게 보여줄 것이다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.343-351
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• 2016

Background: This study aims to analyze the effects of insurance types on the medical service uses for heart failure inpatients using propensity score matching (PSM). Methods: 2014 National inpatient sample based on health insurance claims data was used in the analysis. PSM was applied to control factors influencing the service uses except insurance types. Negative binomial regression was used after PSM to analyze factors that had influences on the service uses among inpatients. Subjects were divided by health insurance type, national health insurance (NHI) and medical aid (MA). Total charges and length of stay were used to represent the medical service uses. Covariance variables in PSM consist of sociodemographic characteristics (gender, age, Elixhauser comorbidity index) and hospital characteristics (hospital types, number of beds, location, number of doctors per 50 beds). These variables were also used as independent variables in negative binomial regression. Results: After the PSM, length of stay showed statistically significant difference on medical uses between insurance types. Negative binomial regression provided that insurance types, Elixhauser comorbidity index, and number of doctors per 50 beds were significant on the length of stay. Conclusion: This study provided that the service uses, especially length of stay, were differed by insurance types. Health policy makers will be required to prepare interventions to narrow the gap of the service uses between NHI and MA.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.206-219
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• 2019

This paper aims to demonstrate current health expenditure (CHE) and National Health Accounts of the years 2018 constructed according to the SHA2011, which is a manual for System of Health Accounts (SHA) that was published jointly by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Eurostat, and World Health Organization in 2011. Comparison is made with international trends by collecting and analyzing health accounts of OECD member countries. Particularly, scale and trends of the total CHE financing as well as public-private mix are parsed in depth. In the case of private financing, estimation of total expenditures for (revenues by) provider groups (HP) is made from both survey on the benefit coverage rate of National Health Insurance (by National Health Insurance Service) and Economic Census and Service Industry Census (by National Statistical Office); and other pieces of information from Korean Health Panel Study, etc. are supplementarily used to allocate those totals into functional classifications. CHE was 144.4 trillion won in 2018, which accounts for 8.1% of Korea's gross domestic product (GDP). It was a big increase of 12.8 trillion won, or 9.7%, from the previous year. GDP share of Korean CHE has already been close to the average of OECD member countries. Government and compulsory schemes' share (or public share), 59.8% of the CHE in 2018, is much lower than the OECD average of 73.6%. 'Transfers from government domestic revenue' share of total revenue of health financing was 16.9% in Korea, lower than the other social insurance countries. When it comes to 'compulsory contributory health financing schemes,' 'transfers from government domestic revenue' share of 13.5% was again much lower compared to Japan (43.0%) and Belgium (30.1%) with social insurance scheme.