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The purpose of this article is to analyze the two early health care reform groups: the American Association for Labor Legislation(AALL), the first organization to try to initiate compulsory...
In recent years, health inequalities have become an important public health concern and the subject of both research and policy attention in Korea. Government reports, as well as many epidemiological...
Research and development (R&D) is very important to acquire new knowledge in various fields. The significance of public R&D is also increasing, especially related to health policy making, establishing basic...
Quality Improvement(QI) is the policy agenda rising rapidly at the health policy field. Recent policy trends like hospital evaluation with public reporting and evaluation of appropriateness in health insurance areas...
Quality Improvement(QI) is the main agenda rising rapidly at the health policy. Recent policy trend like hospital evaluation with public reporting and evaluation of appropriateness in health insurance areas show...
After the 19th South Korean presidential election was scheduled to be held on May 9, 2017, a number of presidential candidates have rushed to announce their health policies. Regardless of...
The identity crisis of preventive medicine appears to have been deepening. As a solution, it is insisted that preventive medicine should focus on clinical preventive medicine. However, in the field...
This article analyzes the social transformation of Korea's health care policy in the twentieth century from a historical perspective. The whole period under the research is divided into four...
Major approaches of Social epidemiology; 1) holistic, ecological approach, 2) population based approach, 3) development and life-course approach, 4) contextual multi-level approach, have stressed the importance of not only social...
The Korean Medical Association (KMA) operates two organizations dedicated to healthcare policy research: the Research Institute for Healthcare Policy, which was launched in 2002, and the KMA Policy Special Committee,...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the current public participation in-local health policy and its implications through the analysis of policy networks in health center programs.
METHODS: We examined the decision-making process in sub-health...