SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Across the globe, concern over public health is growing as the World Health Organization (WHO) recently pronounced the coronavirus as a global pandemic. As such, interest has been piqued in novel ways to prevent and treat COVID-19. In the meantime, a clinical trial in China using vitamin C to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans differ on self-perception about health depending on the amount of income they receive, a recent study revealed. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a survey of 13,000 members of 6,000 households over 15 years of age, 53.9 percent of whom regarded themselves as ‘healthy’. Only 30.9 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — There is a clear difference in the way health care is managed according to different age groups. The National Health Insurance Service unveiled their recent survey of some 2,000 health insurance subscribers, including dependents, between the ages of 19 and 69. In the survey, 9 out of 10 respondents, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 80 percent of office workers experience health problems after starting work, according to a recent survey. The results can be interpreted as an indication that even healthy individuals get sick once they start work. According to the survey of 671 office workers conducted by the job portal [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Insurance services will provide point benefits on a trial basis within this year if companion animals achieve their target health goals. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) said Thursday it has designated five more innovative financial services, including point benefits for companion animals. To that end, insurtech startup SmallTicket will [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1 in 2 children in South Korea have experienced health issues caused by fine dust, and 3 out of 10 have missed official outdoor events, such as going to school or going on school trips, when fine dust levels were severely high. The Korea Institute for Health and [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced a package of measures Tuesday to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) from the country by 2030. South Korea has the highest TB prevalence among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Slightly over 70 in 100,000 South Koreans were infected with the disease in 2017, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate for young South Korean students swelled to 25 percent last year from 21.2 percent in 2014, marking the fifth straight annual increase, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday. The overall health statistics of elementary, middle and high school students were also found to have deteriorated in [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean babies born in 2017 are expected to live more than 82 years, government data showed Monday, as a growing number of people take care of their health by receiving regular medical checkups and treatment. Life expectancy at birth averaged 82.7 years in 2017, three months longer than [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the prolonged international sanctions on North Korea, the health of the North’s infants and pregnant women is in a very vulnerable state, a South Korean government think tank said Tuesday. The Seoul-based Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs said in a report that North Korea’s maternal mortality [...]