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Health Disparities in Contemporary Korean Society -

Health Disparities in Contemporary Korean Society

Issues and Subpopulations

Sou Hyun Jang, Joong-Hwan Oh (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3210-4 (ISBN)
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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.

Sou Hyun Jang is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan University. Joong-Hwan Oh is professor of sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York (CUNY).

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Korean Communities across the World
Co-Autor Joong-Hwan Oh, Sou Hyun Jang, Kimin Kwon
Zusatzinfo 8 b/w illustrations; 64 tables;
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 241 mm
Gewicht 653 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-7936-3210-3 / 1793632103
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-3210-4 / 9781793632104
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