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Medical Insurance and Health Education (의료보험과 보건교육)

  • 이규식;홍상진
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 1993

  • Recently the structure of disease is changing its form into chronic disease. Taking into consideration this, the health care system doesn't cope with this tendency. With the health care system for acute disease, it is difficult to decrease medical care cost. At this point, Health education like primary health care can reduce risk factors and possibilities of occurrence of disease. This can cut off the medical insurance finance further more cuts off the rates of insurance cost. This is why health education is the principle part of medical insurance service. Though the law shows health education must be executed in the field of Medical insurance, still it is not enough. In order to carry out health education in the medical insurance organization, the efforts we should make are as follows: 1. Recognize the importance of health education. 2. Set the clear goals in health education. 3. Organize health education system. 4. Train health workers. 5. Systematize health education service. 6. Reform the medical insurance system. 7. Evaluate the effect of health education and practice the model.

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An Analysis of Automobile Insurance and Health Insurance Patients' Uses of the Medical Services (자동차보험 환자와 건강보험 환자의 의료 이용 양상 분석 - 일개 대학병원을 대상으로 -)

  • Yoo, Hyeong-Sik;Park, Tae-Seab
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.175-188
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    • 2007

  • The purpose of this study was to confirm the reasons why the medical institutes avoid the traffic accident victims covered by the automobile insurance. For this purpose, a university hospital was sampled to comparatively analyze days of hospitalization, average medical cost per day, ratio of optional medical cost, average cost by injury/age group/department, distribution of MRI photographing, etc., between health insurance and automobile insurance patients. Accordingly, in order to assure automobile patients of a reasonable rights of medical services, it is deemed necessary to arrange a fair system encouraging them reduce the days of their hospitalization as well as a complementary mechanism preventing unnecessary expensive medical services due to the hazard.

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