Health Care Spending Increases and Value in South Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health care spending in South Korea (hereafter Korea) nearly doubled from 2010 to 2019. However, little is known about the drivers and effectiveness of these spending increases in terms of changes in disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs).

Objectives

To evaluate the factors contributing to changes in health care spending and DALYs and estimate the value of health care spending from 2010 to 2019 in Korea.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study of the population of Korea used 2010 and 2019 data from the National Health Insurance Service for health care spending, and from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 for DALYs. Changes from 2010 to 2019 were decomposed into changes in several factors, including population size, aging, and per-person

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11762226 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature