Seoul City-Korea National Health Insurance Corporation, Accompaniment Service for Group Health Checkups for Single-Person Households and Vulnerable Groups

Health Checkup + Hospital Accompaniment Collaboration... Service Starting from July

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 13th that it will support a group health check-up hospital accompaniment service for health promotion targeting vulnerable single-person households and others in collaboration with the National Health Insurance Service from this month until December.

According to the 2020 statistics from the National Health Insurance Service, the examination rate (32.3%) of the health management vulnerable group who are medical aid beneficiaries is more than twice lower than that of general health insurance subscribers (67.8%). In particular, this rate has dropped by about 6 percentage points compared to 2019, before COVID-19.

For single-person households, the prevalence rate of chronic diseases in 2021 was 31.5%, an increase of 10.2 percentage points from 21.3% in 2017. Especially among elderly single-person households, 7 out of 10 have experienced a diagnosis of one or more chronic diseases. To support these vulnerable groups such as single-person households who require prior health management, the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the National Health Insurance Service have joined forces.

The National Health Insurance Service is responsible for discovering and recruiting participating institutions and recruiting participants for the ‘Group Health Check-up Accompaniment Service for Health Management Vulnerable Groups’ targeting vulnerable groups managed and supported by those institutions. Seoul City will dispatch accompaniment managers free of charge for the ‘Single-Person Household Hospital Safe Accompaniment Service’ to assist with health check-ups.

Furthermore, after supporting the ‘Group Health Check-up Accompaniment Service for Health Management Vulnerable Groups,’ Seoul City plans to continuously manage the health of single-person households and vulnerable groups in collaboration with the Service by linking with existing health management projects.

Ahn Soo-min, head of the Seoul-Gangwon Regional Headquarters of the National Health Insurance Service, said, "This will be a great help to vulnerable groups in medical blind spots who wanted to get health check-ups but could not go alone," and added, "We hope many citizens participate in this service to receive health check-ups, prevent diseases in advance, and improve healthy life expectancy through health management."

Lee Hae-seon, head of the Special Task Force for Single-Person Households, said, "We will continue to make efforts to discover various health management support projects to protect the health of single-person household citizens."

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