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Disability Prevention and Health Promotion Policy in Korea

The Presidential Advisory Committee on Ageing and Future Society. Disability Prevention and Health Promotion Policy in Korea. May 2004. Yong-Ik Kim. Disabilities in Korea. Prevalence of disabilities: 3.06% of total population (August 2003)

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Disability Prevention and Health Promotion Policy in Korea

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  1. The Presidential Advisory Committee on Ageing and Future Society Disability Prevention and Health Promotion Policy in Korea May 2004 Yong-Ik Kim

  2. Disabilities in Korea • Prevalence of disabilities: 3.06% of total population (August 2003) • * lower than USA (20.6%), Germany (8.4%) and WHO (10%), due to rather narrow legal definition • Causes

  3. Efforts for Disability Prevention • Ministry of Transportation: Road safety • Ministry of Labour: Industrial safety and occupational health • Ministry of Health and Welfare: Lifetime health promotion programme

  4. Road Traffic Safety • Strategies • Ensuring vehicle safety • Enhancing safety awareness and safety culture of the public • Strengthening safety regulation • Improving safety management system Road traffic accidents during the 3rd and 4th phases of the road safety plan * Annual average, 3rd phase: 1992~1996, 4th phase: 1997~2001

  5. Industrial Safety • Strategies • Subsidizing small sized enterprises (CLEAN Business Project) • Supporting self-regulatory safety management of business • Ensuring safety of hazardous material and dangerous facilities • Promoting safety-oriented culture

  6. Health Promotion • Strategies • National Health Promotion Act (since 1995) • Establishing management system for chronic diseases: cancer, diabetes and hypertension –‘Korean Centre for Disease Control and Prevention(2004)’ • Strengthening infrastructure for programme: public health centres and human resources development • Performance: to be improved

  7. Challenges • Human resources and funding • Intersectoral collaboration • - inter-ministerial: road safety (traffic, crisis management vs. health), industrial safety (labor vs. health), safe school (education vs. health), home accident (industrial vs. health) • - public and private • Early detection and management: quality of emergency care • Prioritising in resource allocation • more resource to promotive, preventive and rehabilitative activities • Establishing national health promotion programme

  8. Future Strategies (I) ‘Health Promotion Fund’ • Annually US$ 467k will be made by raising the price of tobacco from 2005. • * Price of 20 cigarettes of Marlboro will be increased from KW 2,000(US$1.7) to KW 3,000 (US$2.5). • Will be invested to public health infrastructure and programmes including disability prevention

  9. Future Strategies (II) Reorienting Health Insurance • National Health Insurance revised the mission and changed organisation • Will play an active role in health promotion and medical consumer protection

  10. Future Strategies (III) Emergency Care and Disaster Management • Comprehensive disaster management system • new ‘Disaster Prevention Agency’ • Quality improvement of emergency care and disaster management • monitoring and evaluation • human resource development • revising the fee schedule

  11. Future Strategies (IV) Comprehensive Lifetime Health Promotion Programme • Integrating on-going programmes - maternal and child health, school health, and occupational health and chronic diseases prevention programmes into comprehensive programme • Strengthening programmes and infrastructure

  12. Future Strategies (V) Initiatives of The Presidential Advisory Committee on Ageing and Future Society • Inter-ministerial cooperation • Improving quality of individual programme • Effective and efficient use of resources • Evidence-based prioritizing: large-scale research on accident prevention is planned

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