Health Policy and Management (보건행정학회지)

Korean Academy of Health Policy and Management (한국보건행정학회)
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Strategy for Strengthening Community-Based Public Health Policy

지역사회기반 공중보건정책 강화방안

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun (Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine)
  • 김동현 (한림대학교 의과대학 사회의학교실)
  • Received : 2016.12.15
  • Accepted : 2016.12.23
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

Public health system for more prevention-oriented health promotion rather than hospital-based curative service, focusing population rather than individual, and comprehensive health management in the local community strongly needs to be constructed to solve major issues on efficiencies and equity problems which Korean healthcare system is facing nowadays. Public health promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work, and play. Medical care tries to cure those who have diseases, but public health tries not to become ill and not to be injured. Debates on how we build or rebuild public health system, which is contrasted with medical care system, are needed in Korea, focusing how needs for healthy community and right to health are fulfilled. Public health specialists for practising population health at local community level should be systematically recruited, the function of public health centers should be strengthened, and new government organization should be established for place-based health management.

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