한국 역대 정부의 방역행정에 관한 소고

Abstract

This paper aims to comprehensively examine the quarantine administration of successive governments and draw implications. Quarantine administration refers to various measures for diseases that infect humans, and includes identification of causes, prevention, vaccination, treatment, education, publicity, quarantine, and vaccine development activities. Quarantine administration in the meaning of this thesis refers to measures against diseases that infect humans, as distinguished from livestock quarantine. What previous studies have in common is that quarantine is a public sector, emphasizing the role of the government, and the right time is important for prevention and containment of infectious diseases. Quarantine administration has consistently appeared as a social problem since liberation and has acted as a great threat to the daily life of the people. Based on the enactment of the Infectious Disease Prevention Act, the government focused on preventing and treating various infectious diseases, and through government efforts, it was possible to manage infectious diseases in the early 1990s. However, as a new infectious disease was prevalent worldwide and it was introduced into Korea, the quarantine administration had to consider a wider area. The implications that can be gleaned from the change in quarantine administration are essentially the same as the current disease management policy in the era of COVID-19, and the government and individual citizens should also be “alarmed.” Currently, Korea's health and sanitation conditions are at the highest level in the world, and public awareness has improved considerably. However, in the face of infectious diseases, the government must maintain an up-to-date surveillance system, and various measures implemented by the government in the past are important now and in the future. Above all, much attention must be paid to compliance with daily quarantine rules and control of infectious diseases from abroad.