한국보건사회연구원

 

 

Korea has faced with the problems of utilization of doctor 's expertise, utilization of medical resources, and recruiting the physician of small hospitals. As an alternative policy that solves these problems, an attending hospital system has been implemented since 2003, but it has not been activated. So the government revised the open hospital operation guidelines for the activation of the attending hospital system in 2009. But there was no evaluation study on the operational status after the implementation of the policy. Therefore, this study analyzes the effect of the revision of the attending hospital system guidelines implemented in 2009. 

This research predicts welfare demands of the reunified Korea based on scrutinizing the current welfare condition in North Korea and explores the means through which inter-Korean integration can be fully realized by improving the quality of life of the people of the two Koreas.
The results holistically show high levels of demand in all areas of welfare and the reasons might pertain to insufficient social services they were provided with. This result implies a surge of welfare needs from people of the North after unification and is indicative of their high demands of social services.

Whereas the income poverty rate among Korean seniors reached around 46 percent as of 2015, according to the OECD’s standard, about 45 percent of income-deprived seniors (nearly 21 percent of all seniors) were multidimensionally poor seniors deprived in terms of assets, housing, or both, in addition to being deprived in terms of income.
Concerning the question as to whether half of all Korean seniors are as poor as the OECD’s relative poverty standard indicates, based upon our analysis, we can say that they are not, at least from a multidimensional perspective on poverty. Policymakers thus need to revisit and consider whether they should prioritize all seniors categorized as poor under the OECD’s standard as primary targets of policy efforts to alleviate poverty.  

 

Social welfare policy should cope flexibly with the changes in people's economic status, consumption expenditures, value judgments, and the status of economy-wide income distribution, poverty and inequality. However, existing cross-sectional survey data are not suffice to analyze the socio-economic dynamics because their inability to identify the age effect and the cohort effect. In order to overcome such limitations, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) and Seoul National University (SNU) begun ‘Korea Welfare Panel Study (KOWEPS)’ in 2006.

 In 2017, 12th wave of KOWEPS has carried out. The descriptive report provides a wide variety of contents about the general features, economic conditions, employment status, social security, welfare needs and special topic for the 12th year survey. And this descriptive report provides some results from longitudinal analysis. The results could be a reference for the researchers who try to use KOWEPS.  

This report is an outcome of the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA)’s Social Cohesion Policy Assessment Program (SCPAP). We report on the main characteristics of the Koreans’ psychosocial states, levels of trust, and perceptions of fairness and conflicts, based on the Survey on Social Problems and Social Cohesion, which interviewed a total of 3,839 men and women across Korea using a structured questionnaire. 

A decade has passed since the Korea Health Panel was first introduced with the aim of producing data and information on Koreans’ utilization of healthcare services and spending. In this report, we reviewed the achievements of the first Korea Health Panel and discussed reforming plan and main tasks for establishing 2nd Korea Health panel.
 

 

Young people of Korea still have a lower poverty rate than other age groups, but in light of the labor market situation, youth poverty may become a serious social problem in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the poverty situation of Korean young people more deeply and to call attention to the policy interest.
Through the multidimensional approach to poverty, we analyze the multidimensional poverty characteristics of Korean youth and identify the differences from those of income poverty. Finally, the direction of future youth policies re presented.