Health Policy Manag.  2022 Dec;32(4):345-346. 10.4332/KJHPA.2022.32.4.345.

Healthcare System Needs to be Reinforced toward the Environmental Changes

• Lee SH

• KMID: 2538408
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4332/KJHPA.2022.32.4.345

Abstract

2022 was a time when the global healthcare system was challenged and has grown in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. In addition, various issues accumulated in the process of quantitative growth have emerged in the Korean healthcare system. For instance, problems of sustainability in health insurance finances and removing bubbles from excessive medical utilization should be urgently resolved as tasks that occurred in the process of expanding the coverage of the health insurance system. The deficit of applicants for the pediatrician residency program suggests that expanding health insurance coverage alone has limitations in providing essential medical services. There is a need to incentivize doctors who provide essential medical care services. In 2023, we hope that efforts to enhance and internally reinforce the healthcare system will be concentrated.

Keyword

environmental change; reinforcement; healthcare system