Abstract
The aim of present study was to analyze the system, infrastructure, finance, human resources and recent trends and tasks of Korea's health promotion services and the trends of health education specialists using HP-Source.net, a capacity mapping tool.
A law for the national health promotion was enacted in1995 in Korea. After that, the health promotion services are administratively and financially supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, The Korea health promotion fund was also established based on the law.In 2002, Health Plan 2010 was established to reduce diseases and deaths caused by lifestyle-related diseases. In 2004, a Healthy City project was started. In addition, the nation has conducted various types of services regarding new public health sectors by executing a Healthy City project to create a healthy environment. In 2010, Korea executed national certification (1st-3rdclass) of health education specialistsfor the first time. 18 persons, or 25.7 percent, acquired second-class certifications, and2,246 persons, or 42.7 percent, acquired third-class certifications.
Korea needs to establish evidence about the efficiency of its health promotion services by conducting a health impact assessment. Moreover, it is important that new scientific health promotion services should be tried and continued in Korea.
