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. 2014 Jun 24;26:17. doi: 10.1186/2052-4374-26-17

Table 3.

Health care system in social security of Korea and Japan

  Korea Japan
Expenditures on health by type of funding (%)
 
 
GG/SS/POP/PI
11/46/37/6
9/73/15/2
Share of hospital inpatient expenditures for MSD (%)
9
6
Health care system
 
 
Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures as a share of total household consumption (%)
4.6
2.2
Sickness leave
No
66.7% of average daily basic wage up to 18 months
Share of WMSD in workers’ compensation (%)
 
 
WMSD/total compensated diseases
71.5
66.6
WMSD/total compensated injury and diseases 5.8 4.3

GS: general governmental, SS: social security, POP: private out-of-pocket, PI: private insurance, MSD: musculoskeletal disorder, WMSD: work-related musculoskeletal disorder.