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<p><span>This edited volume unveils diverse issues and factors related to health disparities in contemporary Korean Society. It illustrates how economic and social changes unequally impact different subpopulations, including employees, the elderly, children, and immigrants and describes why health policy and intervention is needed now.</span></p>

<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
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<p><span>Part I: Disparities in Health and Healthcare Utilization</span></p>
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<p><span>Section 1:</span><a><span> Self-Rated Health </span></a></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 1: </span><span>Association between Employment Status and Self-Rated Health: Korean Working Conditions Survey</span></p>
<p><span>Kimin Kwon, Jae Bum Park, Kyung-Jong Lee, and Yoon-Sik Cho</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 2: Social Capital and its Association with Health and Well-Being: An Individual-Level Analysis in Seoul, South Korea</span><a></a></p>
<p><span>Sehee Han, Heaseung Kim, and Hee-Sun Lee</span></p>
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<p><span>Section 2: Health Insurance &amp; Healthcare Utilization</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 3: </span><span>Paying Out-of-Pocket for Health Care in Korea: Changes in Catastrophic and Poverty Impact over a Decade of 1996-2005</span></p>
<p><span>TaeJin Lee</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 4: Multilevel Analysis of Health Care Service Utilization among Medical Aid Beneficiaries in Korea</span></p>
<p><span>Yang Heui Ahn, Ok Kyung Ham, Soo Hyun Kim, and Chang Gi Park</span></p>
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<p><span>Part II: Health Disparities among Different Population Groups</span></p>
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<p><span>Section 3: Employee Health </span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 5: The Association between Long Working Hours and Self-Rated Health </span></p>
<p><span>Jun-Taek Song, Goeun Lee, Jongho Kwon, Jung-Woo Park, Hyunrim Choi, and Sinye Lim</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 6: </span><a><span>The Relationship between Night Work and Involuntary Weight Change: Data from the Fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES 2010–2012)</span></a></p>
<p><span>Jongho Kwon, Jung-Woo Park, Jin-Soo Park, Seyoung Kim, Hyunrim Choi, and Sinye Lim</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 7: The Association between Korean Employed Workers’ On-Call Work and Health Problems, Injuries</span></p>
<p><span>Chulin Baek, Jae Bum Park, Kyungjong Lee, and Jaehyuk Jung</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 8: </span><span>Factors Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life in Korean Older Workers </span><a></a></p>
<p><span>Sujin Hong, Harin Jeong, Yunjeong Heo, Hosun Chun, Jongtae Park, and Daeseong Kim</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 9: Hazards and Health Problems in Occupations Dominated by Aged Workers in South Korea </span></p>
<p><span>Jungsun Park, Soo Geun Kim, Jong-shik Park, Boyoung Han, Kab Bae Kim, and Yangho Kim</span></p>
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<p><span>Section 4: Elderly Health</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 10: Relation between Overall Health Status and Environmental Satisfaction of Community Elders</span></p>
<p><span>Seonhye Lee, Chang Heon Cheong, and Jimee Kim</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 11: The Effect of Health and Functional Limitation on Sexual Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Elderly Korean Couples </span></p>
<p><span>Jaeeon Yoo</span></p>
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<p><span>Section 5: Children/Adolescents Health </span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 12: </span><span>Mothers’ Working Hours and Children’s Obesity: Data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2008–2010</span></p>
<p><span>Goeun Lee and Hyoung-Ryoul Kim</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 13: Subjective and Objective Indicators of Socioeconomic Status and Self-Rated Health in Korean Adolescents </span></p>
<p><span>Kyungwon Choi</span></p>
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<p><span>Section 6: Immigrant and Minority Health </span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 14: </span><span>Health Status and Associated Health Risks among Female Marriage Immigrants in Korea </span></p>
<p><span>Hyekyeong Kim, Seunghyun Yoo, Seon Cho, Eun-Joo Kwon, Suyoung Kim, and Ji-Youn Park</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 15: The Mental Health of Ethnic Minority Youths in South Korea and its Related Environmental Factors: A Literature Review </span></p>
<p><span>Yeeun Lee, Minji Lee, and Subin Park</span></p>

<p><span>Sou Hyun Jang</span><span> is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan University.</span></p>
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<p><span>Joong-Hwan Oh</span><span> is professor of sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York (CUNY).</span></p>