Korea Health Panel Survey(KHP) is prepared with the consortium in Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs(KIHASA) and National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) in 2008 and reaches to 6 years. In order to support the policy which could correspond to the rapidly changing health care environment under the aging population, medical progress, medical service expansion of supply, demand for people's health, KHP collects detailed data and information for family and individual from a nationally representative sample of households on the following: demographic characteristics, income, savings and expenses, employment, housing, chronic conditions, use of medical services, medication, charges and source of payments, private health insurance, pregnancy and delivery, elderly care, health behaviours and health awareness.
This is the elementary analysis report based on the annual integrated data in 2011 on 17,035 individual household members about the chronic conditions, medication without prescription, elderly care, health behaviours and health awareness among the subjects of KHP survey. Particularly it focuses on the production of the statistics giving the implication on the policy issues.