Decision to Establish 'Environment + Health' Big Data System... To Be Used for Monitoring Environment-Related Disease Occurrence

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Joo Sang-don] The Ministry of Environment and the National Health Insurance Service have decided to link various data in the fields of environment and health insurance to build an 'Environmental Health Big Data.' To this end, the two organizations signed a memorandum of understanding at the Government Sejong Complex on the 11th.

Through this agreement, the two organizations plan to build environmental health big data by linking nationwide health information data with regional-level environmental information.

Based on the constructed environmental health big data, joint research will be promoted to create a digital surveillance system for environmental health and environmental diseases that identifies abnormal signs such as predicting the occurrence of environmental diseases at the national and regional levels. In addition, the environmental health big data will be analyzed from multiple perspectives, including ▲correlation analysis between environmental harmful factors and health effects, △current status of environmental diseases, and ▲evaluation of environmental health status, to be utilized for setting goals and evaluating the effectiveness of environmental health policies.

Park Yong-gyu, Director of Environmental Health Policy at the Ministry of Environment, said, "The two organizations have joined forces to strengthen the use of public data in the fields of environment and health to protect public health," adding, "We will actively utilize the environmental health big data to be constructed in the future to establish an environmental health surveillance system and environmental health safety net, and do our best to protect public health through preventive measures."

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