공공병원 혁신을 위한 양·한방 협진 도입에 관한 연구 = A study for integrated traditional korean / western medicine to reform public medicine

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is first, to understand the factors of the terms under which public and private hospitals adopt integrated traditional Korean/western medicine; and second, to derive a plan to expand the use of such integrated medicine in public hospitals. The issues of worn-out facilities, labor shortage in public medical institutions, and their shortfall to discriminate themselves from the private medical institutions in their roles and functions to distinct their identity, have been constantly raised. With the current wave of chronic diseases and elderly population,(integrated medicine has been recognized as a useful form of medicine, and even as an alternative reform plan for the public medicine field.
In order to understand the terms public hospitals place for integrated traditional Korean/western medicine, technology-adoption-model, which has been widely used to model new technology or production system adoption, was used. In this study, three factors that effect technology adoption, the uncertainty of technology, uncertainty of strategy, and the characteristics of human capital were discussed; and their influences were further analyzed in the legal and institutional setting.
A mailing survey on the situational analysis of integrated medicine in the nation`s public and private hospitals was conducted; and the perception and attitude toward it was studied through another mailing survey of directors of the hospitals.
The result of the study shows that the current situation usually did not support the hypothesis derived from the technology-adoption-model. The discussion and conclusion parts of the paper deal with detailed explanation on the hypothesis-test result; and based on the results from the perception-attitude survey, discuss further the plans to expand integrated medicine in public hospitals.