Health Disparities in Contemporary Korean Society: Issues and Subpopulations: Korean Communities across the World Joong-Hwan Oh Lexington Books

Health Disparities in Contemporary Korean Society

Issues and Subpopulations

Health Disparities in Contemporary Korean Society

Issues and Subpopulations

Description

This edited volume unveils diverse issues and factors related to health disparities in contemporary Korean Society. It illustrates how economic and social changes unequally impact different subpopulations, including employees, the elderly, children, and immigrants and describes why health policy and intervention is needed now.

Introduction

Part I: Disparities in Health and Healthcare Utilization

Section 1: Self-Rated Health

Chapter 1: Association between Employment Status and Self-Rated Health: Korean Working Conditions Survey
Kimin Kwon, Jae Bum Park, Kyung-Jong Lee, and Yoon-Sik Cho

Chapter 2: Social Capital and its Association with Health and Well-Being: An Individual-Level Analysis in Seoul, South Korea
Sehee Han, Heaseung Kim, and Hee-Sun Lee

Section 2: Health Insurance & Healthcare Utilization

Chapter 3: Paying Out-of-Pocket for Health Care in Korea: Changes in Catastrophic and Poverty Impact over a Decade of 1996-2005
TaeJin Lee

Chapter 4: Multilevel Analysis of Health Care Service Utilization among Medical Aid Beneficiaries in Korea
Yang Heui Ahn, Ok Kyung Ham, Soo Hyun Kim, and Chang Gi Park

Part II: Health Disparities among Different Population Groups

Section 3: Employee Health

Chapter 5: The Association between Long Working Hours and Self-Rated Health
Jun-Taek Song, Goeun Lee, Jongho

Product details

Published	10 Dec 2020
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	304
ISBN	9781793632104
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	8 b/w illustrations; 64 tables;
Dimensions	241 x 162 mm
Series	Korean Communities across the World
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Sou Hyun Jang

Anthology Editor

Joong-Hwan Oh

Contributor

Joong-Hwan Oh

Contributor

Sou Hyun Jang

Contributor

Kimin Kwon

Contributor

Jae Bum Park

Contributor

Kyung-Jong Lee

Contributor

Yoon-Sik Cho

Contributor

Sehee Han

Contributor

Heaseung Kim

Contributor

Hee-Sun Lee

Contributor

TaeJin Lee

Contributor

Yang Heui Ahn

Contributor

Ok Kyung Ham

Contributor

Soo Hyun Kim

Contributor

Chang Gi Park

Contributor

Jun-Taek Song

Contributor

Goeun Lee

Contributor

Jongho Kwon

Contributor

Jung-Woo Park

Contributor

Hyunrim Choi

Contributor

Sinye Lim

Contributor

Jin-Soo Park

Contributor

Seyoung Kim

Contributor

Chulin Baek

Contributor

Kyungjong Lee

Contributor

Jaehyuk Jung

Contributor

Sujin Hong

Contributor

Harin Jeong

Contributor

Yunjeong Heo

Contributor

Hosun Chun

Contributor

Jongtae Park

Contributor

Daeseong Kim

Contributor

Seonhye Lee

Contributor

Chang Heon Cheong

Contributor

Jimee Kim

Contributor

Jaeeon Yoo

Contributor

Hyoung-Ryoul Kim

Contributor

Kyungwon Choi

Contributor

Hyekyeong Kim

Contributor

Seunghyun Yoo

Contributor

Seon Cho

Contributor

Eun-Joo Kwon

Contributor

Suyoung Kim

Contributor

Ji-Youn Park

Contributor

Yeeun Lee

Contributor

Minji Lee

Contributor

Subin Park

Editors Jang and Oh, both American-trained sociologists, bring together 15 articles that originally appeared in English in a number of journals published in Korea—seven are from Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. With just a couple of exceptions, the contributing authors come from institutions of higher education or government institutes in Korea. Aimed at readers outside Korea who are interested in health disparities, the essays in this collection explore access to health care as well as the health conditions of populations such as shift workers, night workers, on-call workers, the elderly, female marriage immigrants, and minority youth. Each chapter's careful account of the data bases and methods of analysis used may allow experts on health and public policy to integrate information on Korea into their understandings of health disparities. Recommended.

Choice Reviews
The prolonged coronavirus crisis has heightened the global awareness of the significance of healthcare industry in each country. This heightened awareness calls for more active research on medical industry and healthcare system not only by medical scientists, but also by social scientists. Given this newly emerging phenomenon, this edited book is very timely. The book examines healthcare disparities in South Korea based on social class, occupation, ethnicity, gender, and age. I believe the book will be of great help to social scientists who conduct research on healthcare disparities in South Korea.

Pyong Gap Min, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Health consequences of dramatic social and economic changes that Korea has undergone over the past decades are not well understood for non-Korean readers. Health Disparities in Contemporary Korean Society: Issues and Subpopulations, edited by Sou Hyun Jang and Joong-Hwan Oh, successfully compiles 15 essential studies to provide comprehensive understandings of healthcare and healthcare utilization, as well as health differentials across various subgroups in Korea. While most chapters are empirical studies for an academic audience, this book should also be of great interest for a broad audience interested in health and well-being in Korea – a rapidly aging society with growing inequality.

Hyeyoung Woo, Portland State University