Soonman Kwon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3582932 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Soonman Kwon |
| NOMBRES | Soonman |
| APELLIDO | Kwon |
| FIRMA | KWON S |
| AFILIACIONES | Seoul National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2236-2163 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 152 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Housing-Related Factors and Longitudinal Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in One-Person Households
Background Housing is often perceived as a fixed condition that individuals cannot easily change, potentially affecting mental health. One-person households are considered more vulnerable to social isolation than those living with others. This study aims to examine how housing-related factors influence depressive symptoms over time among one-person households. Materials and methods We used data from the Korea Welfare Panel Study (KoWePS) from 201…
Comparing health outcomes and costs of home and community-based services (HCBS) versus institutional care (IC) for long-term care insurance beneficiaries in South Korea
Are long-term care systems aligned with person-centered integrated care? Evidence from the Western Pacific
BACKGROUND: Many Western Pacific countries have established long-term care (LTC) systems to support their rapidly aging populations. However, the extent to which these systems align with integrated care principles that enable individuals to age in place (AIP) remains unclear. Effective integration of LTC with healthcare is essential to enhance continuity of care, improve outcomes, and support AIP. OBJECTIVE: This study examines the alignment of L…
Health Policy – the best evidence for better policies
Has South Korea achieved the goals of national health insurance? Trends in financial protection of households between 2011 and 2018
A decade of public long-term care insurance in South Korea
South Korea proactively introduced public long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 2008 when older people were only about one-tenth of the total population. At that time, Korea switched from a tax-based, local-government-operated LTC program targeting low-income older people to the current universal public LTCI run by the National Health Insurance Service, the single public insurer. The LTCI program provides a comprehensive package of home- and institu…
Systematic assessment of South Korea’s capabilities to control Covid-19
Universal health care in middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: In this paper, we review lessons learned about Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in middle-income countries, with specific reference to achievements and challenges observed during recent years in four middle-income to upper-middle-income countries - Mexico, Turkey, The Republic of Korea and Ukraine. Three of these countries - Mexico, the Republic of Korea, Turkey are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (…
How and why do countries make Universal Health Care policies? Interplay of country and global factors
BACKGROUND: An examination of country policy making tends to reveal more complex processes that reflect domestic as well as external pressures and influences. The paper examines the interplay of external and internal, as well as other, factors in universal health care (UHC) decision-making for a select number of countries spanning the income range from low to high income. METHODS: After developing a conceptual framework to help identify variables…
Social health protection in Cambodia
The Government of Cambodia is implementing ambitious reform initiatives to improve the country's social health protection system. In January 2018, it was announced that the Health Equity Fund (HEF), which is fully subsidized by a joint government‐donor initiative for the reimbursement of user fees for the poor at public health facilities, is to be expanded to some segments of informal workers belonging to associations, as well as to commune and v…
The role of national health insurance for achieving UHC in the Philippines
BACKGROUND: Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has by now become a key health policy goal in many countries and some form of National Health Insurance (NHI) is often used for this. The Philippines has had more than 50 years' experience with social health insurance and in 1995 established PhilHealth, the country's national health insurer. OBJECTIVES: Analyzing the role of the Philippine NHI scheme in moving towards UHC, identifying potentia…
Influence of Highly Accessible Urban Food Environment on Weight Management
We explored the characteristics of the food environment and its influence on weight management in Seoul, Korea. Photo elicitation interviews were conducted with 73 participants who took three photographs per topic related to their food environment and discussed these photographs in groups. Through thematic analysis, we identified four themes concerning participants' perceptions of the food environment and weight management: (1) "convenience comes…
Disability, poverty, and role of the basic livelihood security system on health services utilization among the elderly in South Korea
With rapid aging, many of the elderly suffer from poverty and high healthcare needs. In Korea, there is a means-tested and non-contributory public assistance, the National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS). The purpose of this study is to show older population's condition of disability and poverty, to evaluate the impact of NBLSS on health services utilization, and to examine the differential effect of the NBLSS by disability status among …
Social health insurance development in Mongolia
Mongolia achieved high population coverage under mandatory health insurance relatively quickly. This fact was viewed by policy‐ and decision‐makers as a central issue for health financing reform in Mongolia. Health insurance brought many new features for health service planning, provision, funding and resource management. Based on initial achievements, health insurance came to be strategically considered as the vehicle for achieving universal cov…
Impact of the policy of expanding benefit coverage for cancer patients on catastrophic health expenditure across different income groups in South Korea
Social inequalities in life expectancy and mortality during the transition period of economic crisis (1993–2010) in Korea
Social inequalities in life expectancy and ASDR of the working age group across socioeconomic status over time were closely related to the widening of the social difference created by the macroeconomic crisis and the expansion of neo-liberalism in Korea
Policy learning and cross‐national diffusion in social long‐term care insurance
Recently, many developed countries have moved toward comprehensive Long‐Term Care (LTC) systems. Along with the conventional explanations of these policy changes based on domestic factors, learning from abroad should be considered. We focus on the social insurance model of LTC, particularly how Japan learned from Germany and the Republic of Korea learned from Japan. Some approaches for how to think about policy learning in general as well as cros…
Thirty years of national health insurance in South Korea
South Korea introduced mandatory social health insurance for industrial workers in large corporations in 1977, and extended it incrementally to the self-employed until it covered the entire population in 1989. Thirty years of national health insurance in Korea can provide valuable lessons on key issues in health care financing policy which now face many low- and middle-income countries aiming to achieve universal health care coverage, such as: ta…
The Fiscal Crisis of National Health Insurance in the Republic of Korea
In 2001, National Health Insurance (NHI) in Korea, the social insurance system for health care with universal population coverage, experienced a serious fiscal crisis as its accumulated surplus was depleted. This fiscal crisis is attributed to its chronic imbalance: health care expenditure has increased more rapidly than have insurance contributions. The recent failure in implementing pharmaceutical reform was a further blow to the deteriorating …
Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies
The Korean welfare state
When the Asian financial crisis took a heavy toll on Korea in the late 1990s, policy makers responded by extending welfare policy. For many analysts, this was a paradoxical move, marking a fundamental reconfiguration of the social policy system. This article contests that interpretation. It examines the changes made to Korean social policy in recent years, and considers their impact on the Korean welfare state. It notes both that welfare extensio…
Development of Social Health Insurance in Mongolia
This paper examines the process of developing social health insurance in Mongolia, and its successes, challenges and lessons. The government of Mongolia introduced social health insurance in 1994, which is compulsory for all public and private sector employees and low‐income and vulnerable population groups. The scheme also provided voluntary insurance for unemployed people of working age. About 95 per cent of the population was covered by health…
Healthcare financing reform and the new single payer system in the Republic of Korea
In July 2000, national health insurance in the Republic of Korea was transformed into a single insurer system. This major reform in healthcare financing resulted from the merger of more than 350 health insurance societies. Inequity in healthcare financing and the chronic financial situation of the health insurance societies for self–employed workers in rural areas have been the driving forces leading to the unified health insurance system. The un…
Pharmaceutical reform and physician strikes in Korea
Health and Health Care
The Korean welfare state
When the Asian financial crisis took a heavy toll on Korea in the late 1990s, policy makers responded by extending welfare policy. For many analysts, this was a paradoxical move, marking a fundamental reconfiguration of the social policy system. This article contests that interpretation. It examines the changes made to Korean social policy in recent years, and considers their impact on the Korean welfare state. It notes both that welfare extensio…
Economic crisis and social policy reform in Korea
The economic crisis that broke out in Korea in December 1997 has had a chilling impact on social development in the country. Today unemployment is the highest that Korea has experienced in the past thirty years. This paper aims to examine the impact of the economic crisis on social development and the role of public policy to mitigate the problems caused by the crisis. The economic crisis has hit vulnerable groups harder, increased the proportion…
Policy learning and cross‐national diffusion in social long‐term care insurance
Recently, many developed countries have moved toward comprehensive Long‐Term Care (LTC) systems. Along with the conventional explanations of these policy changes based on domestic factors, learning from abroad should be considered. We focus on the social insurance model of LTC, particularly how Japan learned from Germany and the Republic of Korea learned from Japan. Some approaches for how to think about policy learning in general as well as cros…
Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies
Pharmaceutical reform and physician strikes in Korea
Thirty years of national health insurance in South Korea
South Korea introduced mandatory social health insurance for industrial workers in large corporations in 1977, and extended it incrementally to the self-employed until it covered the entire population in 1989. Thirty years of national health insurance in Korea can provide valuable lessons on key issues in health care financing policy which now face many low- and middle-income countries aiming to achieve universal health care coverage, such as: ta…
Disability, poverty, and role of the basic livelihood security system on health services utilization among the elderly in South Korea
With rapid aging, many of the elderly suffer from poverty and high healthcare needs. In Korea, there is a means-tested and non-contributory public assistance, the National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS). The purpose of this study is to show older population's condition of disability and poverty, to evaluate the impact of NBLSS on health services utilization, and to examine the differential effect of the NBLSS by disability status among …
Healthcare financing reform and the new single payer system in the Republic of Korea
In July 2000, national health insurance in the Republic of Korea was transformed into a single insurer system. This major reform in healthcare financing resulted from the merger of more than 350 health insurance societies. Inequity in healthcare financing and the chronic financial situation of the health insurance societies for self–employed workers in rural areas have been the driving forces leading to the unified health insurance system. The un…
Social health protection in Cambodia
The Government of Cambodia is implementing ambitious reform initiatives to improve the country's social health protection system. In January 2018, it was announced that the Health Equity Fund (HEF), which is fully subsidized by a joint government‐donor initiative for the reimbursement of user fees for the poor at public health facilities, is to be expanded to some segments of informal workers belonging to associations, as well as to commune and v…
The Fiscal Crisis of National Health Insurance in the Republic of Korea
In 2001, National Health Insurance (NHI) in Korea, the social insurance system for health care with universal population coverage, experienced a serious fiscal crisis as its accumulated surplus was depleted. This fiscal crisis is attributed to its chronic imbalance: health care expenditure has increased more rapidly than have insurance contributions. The recent failure in implementing pharmaceutical reform was a further blow to the deteriorating …
Health and Health Care
Impact of the policy of expanding benefit coverage for cancer patients on catastrophic health expenditure across different income groups in South Korea
Development of Social Health Insurance in Mongolia
This paper examines the process of developing social health insurance in Mongolia, and its successes, challenges and lessons. The government of Mongolia introduced social health insurance in 1994, which is compulsory for all public and private sector employees and low‐income and vulnerable population groups. The scheme also provided voluntary insurance for unemployed people of working age. About 95 per cent of the population was covered by health…
Globalization and Health Policy in Korea
Globalization provides both opportunities and challenges to health policy in Korea. Through the diffusion of policy innovations, other countries' experience provides important lessons for health care reform in Korea. However, when globalization provides an external pressure toward more competition and market mechanisms without taking into account the unique institutional context of Korea, it becomes a challenge. Recent economic crisis and its imp…
Has South Korea achieved the goals of national health insurance? Trends in financial protection of households between 2011 and 2018
Social health insurance development in Mongolia
Mongolia achieved high population coverage under mandatory health insurance relatively quickly. This fact was viewed by policy‐ and decision‐makers as a central issue for health financing reform in Mongolia. Health insurance brought many new features for health service planning, provision, funding and resource management. Based on initial achievements, health insurance came to be strategically considered as the vehicle for achieving universal cov…
Economic crisis and social policy reform in Korea
The economic crisis that broke out in Korea in December 1997 has had a chilling impact on social development in the country. Today unemployment is the highest that Korea has experienced in the past thirty years. This paper aims to examine the impact of the economic crisis on social development and the role of public policy to mitigate the problems caused by the crisis. The economic crisis has hit vulnerable groups harder, increased the proportion…
Globalization and Health Policy in Korea
Globalization provides both opportunities and challenges to health policy in Korea. Through the diffusion of policy innovations, other countries' experience provides important lessons for health care reform in Korea. However, when globalization provides an external pressure toward more competition and market mechanisms without taking into account the unique institutional context of Korea, it becomes a challenge. Recent economic crisis and its imp…
Healthcare financing reform and the new single payer system in the Republic of Korea
In July 2000, national health insurance in the Republic of Korea was transformed into a single insurer system. This major reform in healthcare financing resulted from the merger of more than 350 health insurance societies. Inequity in healthcare financing and the chronic financial situation of the health insurance societies for self–employed workers in rural areas have been the driving forces leading to the unified health insurance system. The un…
Pharmaceutical reform and physician strikes in Korea
Health and Health Care
Development of Social Health Insurance in Mongolia
This paper examines the process of developing social health insurance in Mongolia, and its successes, challenges and lessons. The government of Mongolia introduced social health insurance in 1994, which is compulsory for all public and private sector employees and low‐income and vulnerable population groups. The scheme also provided voluntary insurance for unemployed people of working age. About 95 per cent of the population was covered by health…
The Korean welfare state
When the Asian financial crisis took a heavy toll on Korea in the late 1990s, policy makers responded by extending welfare policy. For many analysts, this was a paradoxical move, marking a fundamental reconfiguration of the social policy system. This article contests that interpretation. It examines the changes made to Korean social policy in recent years, and considers their impact on the Korean welfare state. It notes both that welfare extensio…
The Fiscal Crisis of National Health Insurance in the Republic of Korea
In 2001, National Health Insurance (NHI) in Korea, the social insurance system for health care with universal population coverage, experienced a serious fiscal crisis as its accumulated surplus was depleted. This fiscal crisis is attributed to its chronic imbalance: health care expenditure has increased more rapidly than have insurance contributions. The recent failure in implementing pharmaceutical reform was a further blow to the deteriorating …
Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies
Thirty years of national health insurance in South Korea
South Korea introduced mandatory social health insurance for industrial workers in large corporations in 1977, and extended it incrementally to the self-employed until it covered the entire population in 1989. Thirty years of national health insurance in Korea can provide valuable lessons on key issues in health care financing policy which now face many low- and middle-income countries aiming to achieve universal health care coverage, such as: ta…
Policy learning and cross‐national diffusion in social long‐term care insurance
Recently, many developed countries have moved toward comprehensive Long‐Term Care (LTC) systems. Along with the conventional explanations of these policy changes based on domestic factors, learning from abroad should be considered. We focus on the social insurance model of LTC, particularly how Japan learned from Germany and the Republic of Korea learned from Japan. Some approaches for how to think about policy learning in general as well as cros…
Social inequalities in life expectancy and mortality during the transition period of economic crisis (1993–2010) in Korea
Social inequalities in life expectancy and ASDR of the working age group across socioeconomic status over time were closely related to the widening of the social difference created by the macroeconomic crisis and the expansion of neo-liberalism in Korea
Social health insurance development in Mongolia
Mongolia achieved high population coverage under mandatory health insurance relatively quickly. This fact was viewed by policy‐ and decision‐makers as a central issue for health financing reform in Mongolia. Health insurance brought many new features for health service planning, provision, funding and resource management. Based on initial achievements, health insurance came to be strategically considered as the vehicle for achieving universal cov…
Impact of the policy of expanding benefit coverage for cancer patients on catastrophic health expenditure across different income groups in South Korea
Disability, poverty, and role of the basic livelihood security system on health services utilization among the elderly in South Korea
With rapid aging, many of the elderly suffer from poverty and high healthcare needs. In Korea, there is a means-tested and non-contributory public assistance, the National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS). The purpose of this study is to show older population's condition of disability and poverty, to evaluate the impact of NBLSS on health services utilization, and to examine the differential effect of the NBLSS by disability status among …
The role of national health insurance for achieving UHC in the Philippines
BACKGROUND: Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has by now become a key health policy goal in many countries and some form of National Health Insurance (NHI) is often used for this. The Philippines has had more than 50 years' experience with social health insurance and in 1995 established PhilHealth, the country's national health insurer. OBJECTIVES: Analyzing the role of the Philippine NHI scheme in moving towards UHC, identifying potentia…
Influence of Highly Accessible Urban Food Environment on Weight Management
We explored the characteristics of the food environment and its influence on weight management in Seoul, Korea. Photo elicitation interviews were conducted with 73 participants who took three photographs per topic related to their food environment and discussed these photographs in groups. Through thematic analysis, we identified four themes concerning participants' perceptions of the food environment and weight management: (1) "convenience comes…
Social health protection in Cambodia
The Government of Cambodia is implementing ambitious reform initiatives to improve the country's social health protection system. In January 2018, it was announced that the Health Equity Fund (HEF), which is fully subsidized by a joint government‐donor initiative for the reimbursement of user fees for the poor at public health facilities, is to be expanded to some segments of informal workers belonging to associations, as well as to commune and v…
A decade of public long-term care insurance in South Korea
South Korea proactively introduced public long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 2008 when older people were only about one-tenth of the total population. At that time, Korea switched from a tax-based, local-government-operated LTC program targeting low-income older people to the current universal public LTCI run by the National Health Insurance Service, the single public insurer. The LTCI program provides a comprehensive package of home- and institu…
Systematic assessment of South Korea’s capabilities to control Covid-19
Universal health care in middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: In this paper, we review lessons learned about Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in middle-income countries, with specific reference to achievements and challenges observed during recent years in four middle-income to upper-middle-income countries - Mexico, Turkey, The Republic of Korea and Ukraine. Three of these countries - Mexico, the Republic of Korea, Turkey are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (…
How and why do countries make Universal Health Care policies? Interplay of country and global factors
BACKGROUND: An examination of country policy making tends to reveal more complex processes that reflect domestic as well as external pressures and influences. The paper examines the interplay of external and internal, as well as other, factors in universal health care (UHC) decision-making for a select number of countries spanning the income range from low to high income. METHODS: After developing a conceptual framework to help identify variables…
Health Policy – the best evidence for better policies
Has South Korea achieved the goals of national health insurance? Trends in financial protection of households between 2011 and 2018
Comparing health outcomes and costs of home and community-based services (HCBS) versus institutional care (IC) for long-term care insurance beneficiaries in South Korea
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