Overview of healthcare system in North Korea

Autor:	Hannah Kim, Mijin Lee, Danbi Cho, So Yoon Kim
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Government Economic growth business.industry media_common.quotation_subject General Medicine Economic support Healthcare delivery Family medicine Health care medicine Delivery system business Function (engineering) Healthcare system media_common Preventive healthcare
Zdroj:	Journal of the Korean Medical Association. 56:358
ISSN:	2093-5951 1975-8456
Popis:	In this study, we analyzed the healthcare system of North Korea using Kleczkowski’s model which categorizes national healthcare infrastructure into five components: health resources, organization, healthcare delivery system, economic support, and management. It was found that the healthcare system in North Korea, which provides clinical medicine, Koryo medicine and preventive medicine, is constituted of a physician system of independent geographic sectors and centralized delivery system while maintaining free universal health coverage. These systems are all managed by the government and the People’s Committee Party. However, North Korea has been confronted with severe economic difficulties since the 1990s, such that we question whether the healthcare system has been able to function properly despite of the lack of resources in general throughout the country.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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