The transitional period to adulthood is becoming prolonged. This study sheds light on these changes in the transitioning into adulthood from the perspective of families, focusing especially on how the risks associated with the transitional period to adulthood are perceived, absorbed, or managed within Korean families.
The purpose of this study is to identify the types, levels, and related factors of perceived social insecurity. A significant proportion of respondents in the survey reported high levels of perceived social insecurity. Major factors influencing social insecurity perception are sex, income, asset, experience of socio-economic insecurity, social support. This study proposed five major policy tasks based on the result of analysis.
Taking into account the rights and obligations of donors and recipients, as well as the rights of the child born, this study examined the present state and challenges associated with donor conception, denoting the process of conceiving a child through the utilization of gametes donated by a third party. It conducted an analysis of societal awareness concerning donor conception and endeavored to propose strategies aimed at enhancing legislative frameworks and institutional practices to ensure the establishment of a secure environment for donor conception.
In line with the trends of open data, a growing amount of data is becoming accessible for users. However, such open data is primarily provided in unlinked, separate sets by different sources.
In this study, our aim was to examine how data from multiple sources, when linked and integrated, can increase in utility and explore steps needed to be taken to overcome challenges in implementing data integration and linkage.
Renamed from the previous “National Fertility and Family Health and Welfare Survey” in 2021, the “National Family and Fertility Survey," has changed in content and sample frame to reflect current social changes. While the pre-2021 versions surveyed only married women of childbearing age, the 2021 survey covers adult men and women aged 19-49, combining single men and women and married men into one sample. It is important that these changes are built into a stable system that can be maintained for the next 20-30 years.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020, ended this year on May 2023. The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in health during the COVID-19 pandemic by dividing them into health behavior, medical use, and health status, and to suggest measures for effective health management. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increase in strength training and walking, while there was no significant increase in unmet medical needs. There was an increase in obesity rates and prevalence of depressive disorders, both of which negatively impact health. Changes in health status and healthcare utilization also varied by gender, age, occupation, and income. During the infectious disease pandemic, it is necessary to ensure the public's health in various aspects and support health care for vulnerable groups, and to examine whether health changes during the COVID-19 pandemic continue after the end of pandemic.
Policies for deinstitutionalization and community integration have been pursued for older adults, children, and individuals with disabilities. Despite these efforts, the dependence on facility-based care remains high for older adults, children, and people with disabilities. Continue efforts are required to monitor and improve the human rights and living conditions of older adults, children, and people with disabilities residing in residential facilities. This study examined the current status of the guarantee of the right to self-determination as a right to freedom for older adults, children, and people with disabilities residing in facilities.
National health strategies can be detailed by considering future health and disease threats. Similarly, future disease threats play an important role in determining the direction and strategy of health policy. Recently, some research has been conducted to present the direction of health policy, considering issues affecting future health and disease. However, given the rapidly changing environment, continuous efforts to predict future health threats and collect the social opinions of experts periodically are needed to establish targeted healthcare policies.
Therefore, this study aims to explore future health threats by investigating social perceptions and expert opinions on future risk factors and suggests implications and directions for future health policies based on the derived risk factors.
This study investigates the impact of evolving family formation patterns, such as residential independence, marriage, and childbirth on income distribution among South Korean youth. We examine which groups have experienced changes in the transition to adulthood over the past two decades, whether the impact of individual socioeconomic characteristics on marriage and childbearing have changed in recent years, and the impact of these changes on income distribution.
Until now, the causes of unmarried population have been found in young people's marriage and childbirth values, socioeconomic and residential characteristics, but the imbalance in birth sex ratio that has continued for 30 years since the early 1980s has created a population structure in which people cannot get married even if they want to.
In this study, demographic indicators were calculated to see how the sex ratio imbalance at birth affected Korea's current population structure, and future trends were also analyzed. We also looked at the policy needs of young people. Please refer to this report for further details.