Preface ⅲ

Chapter 1.
Overview of History of Healthcare Policy in Korea
Section 1. Before 1945; Historical Background of Healthcare Policy 3
Section 2. From 1945 to 1960s; Birth of Healthcare Policy 9
Section 3. From 1970s to 1980s; Expanding Healthcare Policies 13
Section 4. From 1990s to 2000s; Ongoing Efforts to Improve theQuality of Life for the Public 19

Chapter 2.
Changes in policies for providing medical services in Korea
Section 1. Establishment of Public Health System 29
Section 2. Current Status and Future Development of HealthcareResources 35
Section 3. Changes in Health Care Organizations and the Present 45
Section 4. Aspects of the Development of Changes in the HealthInsurance System 57
Section 5. Changes in Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Industry 65
Section 6. Changes in Health Promotion Policies 81
Section 7. Promotion of Maternal and Child Health andImplementation of Family Planning 89
Section 8. Changes in Policies for Disease Control and Eradication 101

Chapter 3.
Discussion of major issues with respect to changes in healthcare policy
Section 1. Beginning of the Debate on Bioethics and Safetyand the Transition Process 115
Section 2. Discussion on the institution of induced abortion 125
Section 3. Attempts to Introduce For-Profit Medical Corporations 135
Section 4. Conflicts of Various Issues Following Separation ofPrescribing and Dispending 147
Section 5. Traditional Korean Medicine Policy and Conflict betweenTraditional Korean Medicine Doctors and Pharmacists 161
Section 6. Response to New Infectious Diseases and PublicHealth Crisis 173

Reference 193
Table
〈Table 1〉 Annual Trends of Public Health Centers and CommunityHealth Posts 30
〈Table 2〉 Maternal and child health projects by life cycle 98
〈Table 3〉 Main areas of debate on inclusion in the Bioethics Act 118
〈Table 4〉 Types of medical corporation 138
〈Table 5〉 Comparison between for-profit and nonprofit medicalcorporations 139

Figure
〈Figure 1〉 Health Care System from Medical Insurance Act 16
〈Figure 2〉 Development objectives of Korea’s health industryin stages 21
〈Figure 3〉 Number of outpatients visits per capita (2018) 22
〈Figure 4〉 Public Health Delivery System 31
〈Figure 5〉 Medical insurance system (July 1977-November 1998) 60
〈Figure 6〉 The first Western-style hospital, Jejungwon 66