A Report on the Korea Health Panel Survey of 2011

Abstract

(1) 중단기적 목적 □ 국민 개개인 및 가구단위의 의료비 규모 산출 □ 의료비 재원 분석 □ 보건의료서비스 수요자의 이용행태 및 공급자 특성 분석 □ 보건의료정책수립을 위한 보건복지관련 지표 생산

(2) 중장기적 목적 □ 국민의료비 산출 및 변화 양상 추적 □ 주기적, 종단적 데이터를 분석하여 의료비의 흐름(인과관계)을 분석 □ 보건의료정책 수립 및 평가를 위한 동태적 보건복지관련 지표 생산 □ 의료비 지출 양상과 패턴에 관한 지속적인 모니터링

Korea Health Panel Survey(KHP) is prepared with the consortium in Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs(KIHASA) and National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) in 2008 and reaches to 6 years. In order to support the policy which could correspond to the rapidly changing health care environment under the aging population, medical progress, medical service expansion of supply, demand for people's health, KHP collects detailed data and information for family and individual from a nationally representative sample of households on the following: demographic characteristics, income, savings and expenses, employment, housing, chronic conditions, use of medical services, medication, charges and source of payments, private health insurance, pregnancy and delivery, elderly care, health behaviours and health awareness. This is the elementary analysis report based on the annual integrated data in 2011 on 17,035 individual household members about the chronic conditions, medication without prescription, elderly care, health behaviours and health awareness among the subjects of KHP survey. Particularly it focuses on the production of the statistics giving the implication on the policy issues.