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.