Aging Risk and Health Care Cost in Korea

Private health insurance in South Korea: An international comparison

“…In line with Gerdtham et al [30] and Tchoe and Nam [31], we speculate that total health care expenditure is determined by socioeconomic and health-related factors. In our model, aggregate socioeconomic factors are the national per capita income (gdp), total population in thousand (pop), and the percentage of persons aged 65 or more out of the total population (r elderly).…”