A Study on Legal Problems and Proposal for an Enactment Regarding MERS in the Republic of Korea

박미정,; 이종구,

doi:10.17215/kaml.2015.12.23.2.191

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“…In Article 2, Clause 8-12 of the Act, the legal subject is infectious diseases notified by the MOHW, leading to understanding infectious diseases as an administrative measure with general and abstract characteristics, so that it may be unable to conduct rapid diagnosis and report in a timely manner [ 21 ]. Regarding the legal aspects, notification is an administrative measure that an administrative agency publicly announces to unspecified individuals, only playing a role of spreading information, whereas notification itself has no legal effect related to the people’s rights and duties.…”

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Infectious disease-related laws: prevention and control measures

Park¹

2017

Epidemiol Health

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OBJECTIVESThis study examines recently revised Korean government legislation addressing global infectious disease control for public health emergency situations, with the aim of proposing more rational, effective and realistic interpretations and applications for improvement of law.METHODSThe Korea reported its first laboratory-confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus on May 20, 2015. Since the first indexed case, Korean public health authorities enforced many public health measures that were not authorized in the law; the scope of the current law was too limited to cover MERS. Korea has three levels of government: the central government, special self-governing provinces, and si/gun/gu. Unfortunately, the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act does not designate the specific roles of each level of government, and does not state how these governmental branches should be vertically integrated in a state of emergency.RESULTSWhen thinking about these policy questions, we should be especially concerned about introducing a new act that deals with all matters relevant to emerging infectious diseases. The aim would be to develop a structure that specifies the roles of each level of government, and facilitates the close collaboration among them, then enacting this in law for the prevention and response of infectious disease.CONCLUSIONSTo address this problem, after analyzing the national healthcare infrastructure along with the characteristics of emerging infectious diseases, we propose the revision of the relevant law(s) in terms of governance aspects, emergency medical countermeasure aspects, and the human rights aspect.

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Infectious disease-related laws: prevention and control measures

Park¹

2017

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“…He argued that the healthcare resources, their organization, healthcare management, provision of healthcare service and the measures to policy problems of financial support in relation to the management of infectious diseases were urgently needed (Lee, 2014). Park and Lee (2015) pointed out the issues of quarantine and isolation, the nonfeasance of administrative authorities, national compensation, and immunity of public officials given that most of infected patients were visitors to medical institutions and patients in the emergency room or ward. Therefore, they suggested that legal improvements would be necessary, including protection of rights according to international rules, delegation of authority to administrative jurisdiction and application of public law principles to national compensation (Park and Lee, 2015).…”

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“…Park and Lee (2015) pointed out the issues of quarantine and isolation, the nonfeasance of administrative authorities, national compensation, and immunity of public officials given that most of infected patients were visitors to medical institutions and patients in the emergency room or ward. Therefore, they suggested that legal improvements would be necessary, including protection of rights according to international rules, delegation of authority to administrative jurisdiction and application of public law principles to national compensation (Park and Lee, 2015). Heo (2015) pointed out that the infection within hospitals by which a few initial confirmed patients transmitted the disease to dozens of patients could be attributed to ventilation conditions within the hospital, and mentioned the importance of the management of the hospital indoor air quality (Heo, 2015).…”

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Analysis of Infectious Diseases Spreading Process and ICT-Based Management System

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Lee

2016

International Journal of Management and Sustainability

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Recently, as an interest in strongly contagious infectious diseases such as MERS increases, proper infectious disease management system in which ICT is incorporated into each process of the spread of infectious diseases. The scope of analysis is limited to the infectious diseases that flow from a country into the other country through air transportation. The process encompassing from the entry to the eradication of an infectious disease is classified into 5 stages (airport, transportation of patients, medical institutions, self-isolation, and waste disposal), and a journey map is suggested. Subsequently, an efficient infectious disease management system in which ICT is introduced to each stage is proposed. This study has significance in that it has unprecedentedly analyzed the entire spreading process of infectious disease from the process-centered perspective, and is expected to suggest a new convergence direction of ICT.Keywords: ICT, IoT, Infectious disease management system, Health care system, Convergence, Journey map. Contribution/ OriginalityThis study contributes to construct the effective infectious disease management system and provide a new direction for the convergence of ICT in future.

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2016

International Journal of Management and Sustainability

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Recently, as an interest in strongly contagious infectious diseases such as MERS increases, proper infectious disease management systems using ICT have been discussed. Particularly in Korea, the process-centered measures on the basis of ICT infrastructure and the internet of things are under discussion. However, studies on these are very rare. This study aims to propose an infectious disease management system in which ICT is incorporated into each process of the spread of infectious diseases. The scope of analysis is limited to the infectious diseases that flow from a country into the other country through air transportation. The process encompassing from the entry to the eradication of an infectious disease is classified into 5 stages (airport, transportation of patients, medical institutions, self-isolation, and waste disposal), and a journey map is suggested. Subsequently, an efficient infectious disease management system in which ICT is introduced to each stage is proposed. This study has significance in that it has unprecedentedly analyzed the entire spreading process of infectious disease from the process-centered perspective, and is expected to suggest a new convergence direction of ICT.

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A Study on Legal Problems and Proposal for an Enactment Regarding MERS in the Republic of Korea

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