The Current State of Correctional Health Care and the Prisoner’s Right to Healthcare in South Korea

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ㆍ발행기관 : 한국융합인문학회 ㆍ수록지정보 : Asian-Pacific Journal of Social Quality / 1권
ㆍ저자명 : So-young LEE

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INTRODUCTION
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS OF CORRECTIONALHEALTHCARE
ICESCR and General Comment 14
Making Standards Work
WHO Guidelines
OVERVIEW OF CORRECTIONAL HEALTH IN SOUTHKOREA
Organization of Korea Correctional Service
Correctional Healthcare Related Laws
Applying International Standards to Prison Healthcare in Korea
ISSUES OF THE CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEMIN SOUTH KOREA
Correctional Service Environment
Correctional Medical Resources
Health Care Delivery and Financing System
Health Promotion and Mental Health
CONCLUSION
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There is increased recognition of prisoners’ rights to healthcare and the right to be protectedagainst inhumane and degrading treatment. A prisoner has a right to the healthcare equivalent of any person in their community. This trend has encouraged many correctionalpolicymakers to engage in efforts to improve the levels of correctional healthcare in thecontext of human rights and to establish international standards of correctional healthcare,such as those cited in ‘Making Standard Work’ and ‘Health in Prisons’. This study compressed the issues of the right to healthcare into four parts and applied to the correctional healthcare system in Korea. In Korea, according to the results of the study,the right to healthcare of inmates in correctional institutions is guaranteed to some extent, but the gap between the normative frame and the reality is prominent. First, in the living conditions at correctional institutions, the problem of overcrowding is remarkably noticeable. With respect to ensuring correctional medical resources, a shortage of medicalpersonnel and the inferior state of the sickrooms that do not meet the criteria were found.Particularly, focusing on outside medical care, the issue of correctional medical expenditurehas been highlighted, due to the continuous increase in medical costs. Finally, the efforts for health promotion and treatment of mental health care are merely formalities. In orderto reduce the gap between international standards and actual conditions of correctionalinstitutions and to promote these rights effectively, close cooperation between the responsiblebodies is required.

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