[Health pick] The higher the income, the longer you live healthy? "We need to come up with a strategy to resolve inequality."

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Every Friday, 'Health Pick' starts.Studies have shown that the higher the income of

, the longer you live healthy.This is the result of an analysis based on health insurance data from 2008 to 2020 by a research team led by Professor Yoon Seok-joon of Korea University's School of Medicine. According to the healthy life expectancy of spending healthy without getting sick, the highest income group was 74.88 years old and the lowest income group was 66.22 years old, which was more than eight years apart. The research team emphasized that a strategy to resolve health inequality should be prepared based on these results.

The number of people eligible for medical expenses support projects that reduce out-of-pocket expenses for rare patients has been expanded since this year. In addition, income standards for low-income health insurance subscribers have been relaxed, and more patients have been benefited by adding more than 60 target diseases. In addition, the medical certificate submitted when applying for medical expenses was improved to the final diagnosis name, regardless of whether it was a columnar or injured disease, and in addition to the existing visit application, mail and fax were added.

The health insurance coverage rate in 2023 was 64.9%, down 0.8 percentage points from the previous year. This means that when a health insurance patient incurred 1 million won in medical expenses, 649,000 won was paid by health insurance and 351,000 won was paid by the patient himself. The main reason is that the coverage rate has fallen due to the rapid increase in non-payment of flu treatment injections and respiratory disease tests. However, it was found that the coverage rate of the top 30 severe diseases and severe and high medical expenses per person increased slightly from the previous year.

Tightening regulations are continuing in Europe to reduce the smoking population. Following Belgium's first ban on the sale of disposable e-cigarettes in Europe, the UK has also decided to ban them entirely from June. The reason why governments in each country are strengthening regulations one after another is because of the judgment that the spread of disposable e-cigarettes is serious. This is because it is no different from regular cigarettes in terms of adverse effects on health, and the burden on waste is also high.However, as the tobacco industry is strongly opposed, it is expected that it will remain to be seen whether the tightening of regulations will lead to practical effects.

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