Korea's Health and Welfare Trends 2010

Abstract

-분야별 체계적인 통계의 분류 -분야별 주요 지표체계분석 제시 -통계지표를 통한 보건복지 동향 분석

The socioeconomic development has led many to be increasingly interested in the quality of life, and thus in the levels of healthcare and welfare, which are closely related to the quality of life. For the government's health and welfare policies to be implemented more efficiently in meeting people's needs, it is imperative to make, implement and evaluate the policies based on scientific statistics. The need to produce and provide more sophisticated statistics in the field of health and welfare is ever increasing in line with the socioeconomic development. Furthermore, International organizations such as the OECD, WHO and World Bank are demanding increasingly more statistics on health and welfare. Statistics collected by international organizations are a useful tool to look at where a country stands in its socioeconomic development by making international comparison possible. To meet this demand, it is necessary to establish a centralized production and management system of health and welfare statistics. Constructing an efficient production system of diverse statistics and an efficient data provision system will help policy makers, those who implement policies and researchers use data more effectively, which helps achieve policy goals and increases the usefulness of research results. That is, centralizing the management and provision of health and welfare statistics will make production of statistics more efficient, and maximize their usefulness in policymaking and research. For this purpose, we have systematically arranged health and welfare indicators, and analyzed and illustrated the health and welfare trends after selecting key indicators.