All issues > Volume 51(12); 2008

Erratum

Korean J Pediatr. 2008;51(12):1275-1281. Published online December 15, 2008.

An overview and preparation of Korean pediatrician according to the expansion of national immunization program coverage

In Sung IS Cho¹

¹Member of Social Relation Committee of the Korean Pediatric Society and Director of Policy of the Korean Private Pediatrician Association

Correspondence In Sung IS Cho ,Email: pedrcho@pednet.co.kr

Abstract

National Immunization Program (NIP) in korea is regulated by government for effective prevention of infectious diseases since 1954. But the program is only performed in public health center, so many people had various complaints such as inconvenience to use public center, high cost when vaccinated in private medical organization and lack of speciality and registration etc. In this reason, it was very difficult to raise the vaccination rate to 95 percent, infectious disease preventable rate. With this background national assembly and government try to expand the NIP coverage both public health center and private medical organization with increasing budget from 2009. So in this paper an overview and preparation of Korean pediatrician according to the expanding plan of NIP are described.

Keywords :NIP, 9 5 percent, Korean pediatrician