Kyung Hee University · Medicine
Professor Bo-Hyoung Jang's research lab specializes in health services research with a focus on the integration and utilization of traditional and complementary medicine within national health care systems. The lab investigates the role of traditional medicine in primary health care and universal health coverage, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, as well as in national health insurance systems such as those in South Korea and Taiwan. Key research directions include health policy evaluation, disease burden assessment incorporating traditional medicine diagnoses, and health system-level analysis of utilization patterns and health insurance impacts. The lab employs large-scale national health insurance data to inform evidence-based policy making and health system strengthening.
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This paper reports the findings from the first systematic review of the utilization of traditional medicine (TM) in primary health care (PHC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). PHC is an important component of health care and essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). For countries where there is a gap in PHC, TM plays a vital role. It is widely used and has the potential to increase the coverage of PHC and UHC. Hence in situations where TM is recognized in a considerable
According to the National Health Insurance database, about one fourth of the NHI beneficiaries of South Korea and Taiwan had TM use in 2011. Different TM utilization patterns existed between South Korea and Taiwan, which might be due to the differences in insurance coverage between the two countries.
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Background. Korean medicine was incorporated into the Korean Classification of Diseases (KCD) 6 through the development of U codes (U20-U99). Studies of the burden of disease have used summary measures such as disability-adjusted life years. Although Korean medicine is included in the official health care system, studies of the burden of disease that include Korean medicine are lacking. Methods. A data-based approach was used with National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort data for
An analysis of the National Health Insurance database of South Korea and Taiwan revealed different utilization patterns of traditional medicine in adult patients with allergic rhinitis between the two countries. We believe these phenomena are due to the difference in the national healthcare systems in both countries.
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