On the 28th, the Promotion Committee for participation from all walks of life was launched.
For those over 65 years old and children in towns and villages
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The Jeju-style health doctor pilot project promotion committee was launched on the 28th. Provided by Jeju Island
Jeju Island is promoting the introduction of a Jeju-style health doctor system with the goal of implementing a pilot project in July next year.
Jeju Island announced on the morning of the 28th that the Jeju-style health doctor pilot project promotion committee, composed of 24 people from the medical community, academia, provincial council, health care community, and civil society organizations, was launched at Halla Hall in the provincial office.
The Promotion Committee will be active for the next two years and will play an advisory role, including reviewing and discussing plans to introduce a pilot project for health care doctors, suggesting and evaluating opinions on introduction models, and presenting policy directions.
The primary care physician system is a method in which community residents use medical services while maintaining an ongoing relationship with their primary care physician. The attending physician is responsible for the overall health of the resident, from chronic disease management to disease prevention.
The health doctor system envisioned by Jeju Island is a plan to designate a primary care doctor for the elderly and children over 65 years old and living in rural areas, which are medically underserved areas, so that they can receive medical care and treatment. If a doctor from a clinic-level medical institution who wants to become a health doctor meets the conditions and reports and registers with the relevant government agency in Jeju Island, residents can select their doctor from that medical institution.
However, Jeju Island will carry out services in the first half of next year to derive a more specific health care doctor model and promote a pilot project starting in July of next year. The pilot project area will start in some rural towns and villages and gradually expand to the entire province.
Jeju Island hopes that once the health doctor system is introduced, systematic medical services such as health risk assessment, chronic disease management, health checkups, vaccinations, health education, and home visits will be possible even in rural areas, which are medically vulnerable areas.
Jeju Island announced that it has decided to push for the introduction of health doctors under the judgment that it is necessary to transform services centered on primary care to respond to changing disease patterns centered on complex chronic diseases ahead of entering a super-aging society. Jeju Governor Oh Young-hoon attended the Jeju Provincial Council last September and said, “There are many neighborhood clinics, but there is a lack of a community primary health care system that provides disease prevention and management, health promotion, health education, and home visit treatment,” and said, “We are running a Jeju-style health doctor pilot project.” announced its intention to pursue .
On the 21st, Jeju Island held a citizen debate at the Jeju Sun Hotel to explore ways to introduce health doctors and gathered opinions from all walks of life. At this event, Lee Sang-i, a professor at Jeju National University College of Medicine, said, “If we introduce Jeju-style health doctors, we will be able to effectively respond to rapid aging, increase in complex chronic diseases, weakening of health equity between regions and classes, regional extinction crisis, infectious disease crisis, and medical crisis.” “He claimed.
Jeju Island will also hold a debate at the National Assembly on the 8th of next month on the necessity and measures to introduce a Jeju-style health doctor system.
An official from Jeju Island said, “We are also conducting practical discussions with the government, including the Ministry of Health and Welfare, to promote a pilot project for health care doctors.”
