This edited volume unveils diverse issues and factors related to health disparities in contemporary Korean Society. It illustrates how economic and social changes unequally impact different subpopulations, including employees, the elderly, children, and immigrants and describes why health policy and intervention is needed now.

This edited volume unveils diverse issues and factors related to health disparities in contemporary Korean Society. It illustrates how economic and social changes unequally impact different subpopulations, including employees, the elderly, children, and immigrants and describes why health policy and intervention is needed now.

Introduction

Part I: Disparities in Health and Healthcare Utilization

Section 1: Self-Rated Health

Chapter 1: Association between Employment Status and Self-Rated Health: Korean Working Conditions Survey

Kimin Kwon, Jae Bum Park, Kyung-Jong Lee, and Yoon-Sik Cho

Chapter 2: Social Capital and its Association with Health and Well-Being: An Individual-Level Analysis in Seoul, South Korea

Sehee Han, Heaseung Kim, and Hee-Sun Lee

Section 2: Health Insurance & Healthcare Utilization

Chapter 3: Paying Out-of-Pocket for Health Care in Korea: Changes in Catastrophic and Poverty Impact over a Decade of 1996-2005

TaeJin Lee

Chapter 4: Multilevel Analysis of Health Care Service Utilization among Medical Aid Beneficiaries in Korea

Yang Heui Ahn, Ok Kyung Ham, Soo Hyun Kim, and Chang Gi Park

Part II: Health Disparities among Different Population Groups

Section 3: Employee Health

Chapter 5: The Association between Long Working Hours and Self-Rated Health

Jun-Taek Song, Goeun Lee, Jongho Kwon, Jung-Woo Park, Hyunrim Choi, and Sinye Lim

Chapter 6: The Relationship between Night Work and Involuntary Weight Change: Data from the Fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES 2010–2012)

Jongho Kwon, Jung-Woo Park, Jin-Soo Park, Seyoung Kim, Hyunrim Choi, and Sinye Lim

Chapter 7: The Association between Korean Employed Workers’ On-Call Work and Health Problems, Injuries

Chulin Baek, Jae Bum Park, Kyungjong Lee, and Jaehyuk Jung

Chapter 8: Factors Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life in Korean Older Workers

Sujin Hong, Harin Jeong, Yunjeong Heo, Hosun Chun, Jongtae Park, and Daeseong Kim

Chapter 9: Hazards and Health Problems in Occupations Dominated by Aged Workers in South Korea

Jungsun Park, Soo Geun Kim, Jong-shik Park, Boyoung Han, Kab Bae Kim, and Yangho Kim

Section 4: Elderly Health

Chapter 10: Relation between Overall Health Status and Environmental Satisfaction of Community Elders

Seonhye Lee, Chang Heon Cheong, and Jimee Kim

Chapter 11: The Effect of Health and Functional Limitation on Sexual Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Elderly Korean Couples

Jaeeon Yoo

Section 5: Children/Adolescents Health

Chapter 12: Mothers’ Working Hours and Children’s Obesity: Data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2008–2010

Goeun Lee and Hyoung-Ryoul Kim

Chapter 13: Subjective and Objective Indicators of Socioeconomic Status and Self-Rated Health in Korean Adolescents

Kyungwon Choi

Section 6: Immigrant and Minority Health

Chapter 14: Health Status and Associated Health Risks among Female Marriage Immigrants in Korea

Hyekyeong Kim, Seunghyun Yoo, Seon Cho, Eun-Joo Kwon, Suyoung Kim, and Ji-Youn Park

Chapter 15: The Mental Health of Ethnic Minority Youths in South Korea and its Related Environmental Factors: A Literature Review

Yeeun Lee, Minji Lee, and Subin Park