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Globalization and Health Policy in KoreaSeoul National University, Korea, kwons{at}snu.ac.kr 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 impacts on health and health care in Korea is a good example of global pressures. More markets or privatization in the health care system, which vested interest groups strongly support, is likely to result in deteriorating solidarity in Korea, for the role of the public sector is very limited — the public share of health care financing is less than 50% and the proportion of public hospitals is less than 10%.
Key Words: globalization • health care reform • health policy • Korea • public—private mix
Global Social Policy, Vol. 2, No. 3,
279-294 (2002) This article has been cited by other articles:
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