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The Effect of Discrimination on Self-rated Health among Foreign Spouses: The moderating Effects of Social Support and Subjective Social Status (결혼이민자의 차별경험이 주관적 건강에 미치는 영향과 사회적 지지와 주관적 사회적 지위의 조절효과)

  • Na, Jangham;Kim, HeeJoo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.485-496
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    • 2017
  • This study aims to examine the moderating effects of social support and subjective social status in the relationship between discrimination and self-rated health among foreign spouses. For the analysis, data from the 2015 National Survey of Multicultural Families was used and a total of 16,870 foreign spouses were selected using hierarchical regression analysis. The results of this study showed that discrimination was negatively related with self-rated health while social support and subjective social status were positively related with self-rated health of foreign spouses. Also, the moderating effect of subjective social status was identified, which means that it enhanced the positive effect of discrimination on self-rated health. This study provided empirical evidence for implementation of social integration policies. The authors suggested future qualitative research of discrimination and health, and social policies and services promoting equal opportunities for foreign spouses.

Impacts of Health Insurance Coverage Expansion on Health Care Utilization and Health Status (건강보험 보장성 확대가 의료이용 및 건강수준에 미치는 영향)

  • Bae, Ji-Young
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.35-65
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between health insurance and health by evaluating the impacts of health insurance coverage expansion on health care utilization and health status. To analyze the causal relationship between health insurance and health, this study employed a "difference-in-difference method" that could compare changes in health care utilization and health status across groups in health insurance coverage expansion in 2005. The researcher predicted that the expansion of health insurance coverage would be an exogenous source of variation in the prices of health service use. First, the difference-in-differences estimator between 'illness group' and 'non-illness group' revealed that the increase in coverage of inpatient care services would result from the increases in the stay of length of 'non-illness group' rather than that of 'illness group'. However, the difference-in-differences estimator between 'serious illness group' and 'chronic illness group' identified that the policy change that focuses on expansion of the coverage for 'serious illness' effects on the increases in health care utilization and promotion of health status. In summary, the changes of health insurance coverage focusing on serious illness and inpatient care have positive effects on health care utilization and health status of serious illness group. But, 'non-illness groups' with acute illness receive more benefits from the policy change than 'illness group' with chronic illness.

The Paradigm Shift of Family Policy for Healthy Families in Korea : The Basic Code of Healthy Families and Healthy Families Support Center (건강가족을 위한 한국가족정책 패러다임의 전환 : 건강가정기본법과 건강가정지원센터를 중심으로)

  • Yoon, Gyung-Ja
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.85-101
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    • 2008
  • This paper examines the traits and directions of family policy represented in the Basic Code of Healthy Families. Strategies for the development of family policy for family professionals and policy makers to provide integrated services for families and the implications of such strategies are also discussed. A family-friendly and a life course perspective are adopted in order to strengthen and expand family policies and promote the establishment of a healthy families' support center. The perspectives and issues of the Basic Code of Healthy Families are reviewed in the light of a paradigm shift in family policy in Korea, with suggestions for adoption of the family policy also addressed.

Status and Challenges of Korean Out of School Children Health Check-up (한국 학교 밖 청소년 건강검진의 현황과 과제)

  • Kim, YangHee
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.546-558
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    • 2019
  • Health inequality means health gaps that can be affected adverse effects to the vulnerable groups in a society. Many scholars argue that it is needed social interventions to reduce health gaps between the vulnerable and the privileged in a society, because social inequalities can be caused and resulted health inequality among them. In this context, this article introduces Korean out of school children health check-up as part of the policies to reduce health inequality in the society. For a long time, many out of school children have been alienated from the national health checkup systems. That means they are not only marginalized groups in Korean society, but also excluded from the benefits of health promotion and health management. Many runaway youths are struggling to live by themselves, who are escaped from their families and they don't have enough resources to keep their health. They are also young and low waged workers who are expelled to the streets, while they don't have any support and protection from the communities. Out of school children health checkup has been conducted to the adolescents who stay in the shelters or study in alternative schools. To get meaningful results as the health inequality reduction policy, it is needed to expand out of children health checkup to the runaway teenagers.