Influence Factors on Health and Medical of Retirees Expense to Public Pension Recipients / 보건행정학회지

BACKGROUND: This study aims to identify the monthly average medical expenses of public pension recipients, and analyze the determinants of total health and medical expenses and Western and Oriental medicine expenses, medical service expenses, and medical supplies expenses. METHODS: This study used the fifth year data of 2013 out of the raw data of the Korean Retirement and Income Study collected by the National Pension Research Institute. This study conducted t-test, analysis of variance, and linear regression to verify publicly the relevance between pension recipients' general characteristics and health and medical expenses status using IBM SPSS ver. 21.0 for data analysis. RESULTS: It was analyzed that there is a difference in the spending of expenditure and health care costs according to public pension recipients. Medical expenses of the national pensioners was higher compared to the special corporate pensioners. The national pensioner is related expenditure size, education level, family members living together, residential areas, status of spouse, number of chronic illness, and status of limitation in daily life with psychological health status. CONCLUSION: Therefore, fairness does not occur fire to the medical use between the special corporate pensioners and national pensioners, aggressive of government such as health policy and financial support for the retiree pension policy that reflects the reality intervention would be required.

Characteristics and Issues on Japanese Pension Insurance System / 中国康复理论与实践

Japanese pension insurance, consisting of two parts including the national pension insurance and welfare pension insurance, is a public mechanism under direct government operation and management. Just like that in other developed countries in the world, Japanese pension insurance adopted mechanisms of social insurance, price changes, lifetime pensions, taxes, etc., which plays an important role in in-come security for the retired elderly people in Japan. Due to the increasing low birthrate and aging in Japan, Japanese government is en-gaged in continual reforms to establish a national stable and sustainable development system trusted by the public.