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A man is smoking an electronic cigarette. Hankyoreh material photo
The government plans to raise the price of cigarettes to the average value of the OECD member countries in the next 10 years. In addition, to reduce alcohol consumption, he is also considering a plan to impose a health promotion charge on alcohol. On the 27th, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare announced the ‘V National Comprehensive Health Promotion Plan’ (2021-2030), which includes measures to strengthen regulations on alcohol and tobacco. The goal is to increase life in health from 70.4 years in 2018 to 73.3 years in 2030 through the implementation of various policies to promote people’s health and prevent diseases, and alleviate other income gaps and regions. Healthy living is the life expectancy minus the period of prevalence due to illness or injury. As of 2018, the national average life expectancy is 82.7 years, which is about 12 years less than this. Specifically, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has set itself the objective of reducing the smoking rate of adult men and women from 36.7% and 7.5% in 2018 to 25.0% and 4.05% in 2030. To this end, it will raise cigarette prices to the level of the average ($ 7.36, about 8,130 won) of the OECD member countries 10 years from now. Currently, the price of cigarettes in Korea is about $ 4. Isran, head of health policy at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said: “Currently, we have not specifically decided when and how much (tobacco prices) increase.” Various regulations on electronic cigarettes are also enforced. According to the related law, the definition of cigarettes includes ‘cigarettes and electronic cigarette devices that use synthetic nicotine as all or part of the raw material’, so the regulations applied to cigarette cigarettes also apply to cigarettes electronic. Standard cigarette packs without ads are also introduced. Increase the level of regulation on various prices and not prices of alcohol. First, it is expected that research and social debates will take place on how to impose health promotion fees. Director Isu-ran said: “Since soju is an item that ordinary people use a lot (imposing an impulse in an inappropriate way), there is controversy. Furthermore, he suggested strengthening legislation to regulate alcohol consumption in public places and expanding the means to enforce alcohol advertising bans.For nutrition management, the provision of a nationally recognized database of nutritional components is also promoted, as well as the segmentation of nutrient intake standards for chronic disease and life cycle. We will continue to promote physical activity by introducing a health-friendly company certification system and a health incentive system. This year, a dentist pilot project for 4th graders will be introduced and strengthened visits to oral health services for vulnerable groups, such as long-term care patients The number of centers oral treatment will increase from 12 last year to 18 in 2023. It also includes a plan to identify and manage groups at high risk of suicide predictions and strengthen support for counseling treatment to reduce the number of suicide deaths per 100,000 people from 26.6 in 2018 to 17 in 2030. Prevention and management of major diseases such as dementia, alcohol use disorder, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer will continue to be strengthened. The gap between income and healthy life expectancy regions is also narrowing. As of 2018, the gap between the top 20% and bottom 20% of income level is 8.1 years, and the goal is to reduce it to 7.6 years or less by 2030. The growing gap in useful life of health between the regions is managed from 2.7 years in 2018 to 2.9 years in 2030. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare explained that the average lifespan in health of the 10 main cities, counties and gus is 74.2 years, while the last 10 average 65.2 years and the gap is 8 years. In order to close the gap, support will be promoted such as the expansion of the regional centers for cardiovascular diseases, the introduction and institutionalization of health impact evaluations and consultation bodies for the construction of a healthy city. By Choi Ha-yan, Staff Reporter [email protected]
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