교정의료전달체계와 수용자 인권

Abstract

In recent several decades, we have concentrated on the human rights, making every effort for improving them. Although inmates and prisoners' fundamental rights can be reserved by the laws following due processes, the human rights should be universally applicable to them. In many fields, Korea has competitive capacities with other nations included in OECD, but needs to do it's best to protect the human rights for inmates and prisoners, as well as for minorities. In this paper, we review the international standards and guidelines for the correctional health care related to inmates and prisoners. According to many reports, the Korean correctional health care system is not enough to protect the human rights of inmates and prisoners and has a lot of problems in medical care. We approach, however, to this system with other different view of points. The established studies have focused on the correctional medicine, but we intend to review the inmates and prisoners' health not only in correctional medicine simply, but also the health care system for them. Therefore, we can understand the basic relations between the correction and the health more properly, provide the better solutions on the correctional health care, and improve it on the basis of the human rights. The guarantee of the better health care to inmates and prisoners seems to be irony and very strange, but these approaches and understandings can produce the cost-effective answers in national health care system. Finally, the improvement of correctional health care system can give the safety and the stability to national health care system.