Development of Health Inequality Indicators and Health Inequality Monitoring in Korea
제목
Development of Health Inequality Indicators and Health Inequality Monitoring in Korea
저자
Dongjin Kim
; Jihee Choi
키워드
건강불평등
; 분석
발행연도
2015
발행기관
한국보건사회연구원
초록
To heighten the health of the entire population, improving the health of each individual is most important. But no less important is the effort to reduce health inequalities between population groups. The United Kingdom and other European countries have long recognized that the problem of health inequality exists not only between countries but also between regions and different population groups within a country and have exerted efforts to develop policies to deal with the issue. Continuous monitoring of health inequalities has been the most basic and important part of those efforts. As in other countries, the efforts to reduce health inequities in Korea should start with measures to raise social wareness of the problem. This health inequality report offers the most basic, yet essential, information required for the development of policy to eliminate health disparities between regions and population groups in the country.
목차
CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 CHAPTER 2 Health Inequity Indicators 11 CHAPTER 3 Current Status of Health Inequalities in Korea: Health Outcomes 19 1. Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy 21 2. Self-rated health status 24 3. Activity limitations 27 4. Chronic disease prevalence 30 5. Infectious disease prevalence 39 6. Death 42 References 61