Social Policy & Health Insurance
in South Korea & Taiwan
Proceedings of the Fifth International Petrozavodsk Conference

By Annette H.K. Son
December 2002
Uppsala University Press
ISBN: 91-554-5489-5
200 pages, 6 ½ x 9 ½"
$46.50 Paper Original


This doctoral dissertation discusses mutual aid in the welfare systems in the Republic of Korea; modernization of medical care in Korea, 1876-1990; construction of the medical insurance system in Korea 1963-1989; Taiwan's path to national health insurance, 1950-1995; social insurance programs in South Korea & Taiwan; and the extension of entitlement to health insurance in South Korea & Taiwan.



Economic History; Social Welfare
Uppsala Studies in Economic History, No. 62

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