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Korean Experience,
Reproductive Health

AHN, Myoung-Ock MD, PhD, DrPH, MPH

(Dr. amo)
 My identity
⚫ Most of all, Woman
⚫ MD, Clinician
OB(MFM) & Gyn
⚫ PhD (Researcher)
⚫ DrPH, MPH (in MCH)
⚫ Preventive Medicine
(Professor)
⚫ Parliamentarian
⚫ Administrator,
National Medical Ctr
 “Medicine is a social
science and medicine
is nothing but politics
on a grand scale”

Rudolf Virchow, (1821-1902)

Prussian physician, one of the

originators of the cell theory, worked
out the mechanism of
pulmonary thromboembolism, writing
about the 1848 typhus epidemic in
Upper Silesia
 Common Good
Happiness
Comprehensive
Health for All
Aristotle
(BC 384-BC 322)
Good Governance
 Health
Alma Ata Declaration(1978)
: ‘Health for All’ by year 2000

‘Health in All Policies’ (2013, Finland)

‘Universal Health Coverage’

: Inclusive Health, SDGs (2016-2030)
 Health
Social in All Policies
Determinants of Health
 Health
WHO Constitution:
Definition of Health (1946)

“…a state of complete physical, mental,

and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease…”
 RAINBOW Health
Health?
- Physical Well-being
- Mental Well-being
- Social Well-being
- Economical Well-being
- Intellectual Well-being
- Spiritual Well-being
+ Cultural Well-being
Healthy People, Healthy City, Healthy State
Ref) J Korean Soc Matern Child Health 2014;18(1): 1-12
Health Promoting Hospital & Health Service, 2017
RAINBOW Health
Campaign
Health & Prevention

Prevention = Risk Reduction

• Primary Prevention
• Secondary Prevention
• Tertiary Prevention
• Quaternary Prevention
(Health Promotion)
 Health Promotion?
…Deals with techniques that
- Foster physical and emotional
well-being
- Increase length of life
- Increase quality of life
Also Health Outcome
Social Determinants of Health

Determinants that influence health

Source: Dahlgren, G. and Whitehead, M.,1993
Health Care System; Complex System

Not only UHC, but also Universal Health

(Salutogenic Comprehensive Health for All)
 Salutogenesis
Aaron Antonovsky (1923-1994)
 Inclusiveness,
Solidarity

Achieve gender
equality and
empower all
women and girls
Women & Children(Girls):
Gender, Lifecycle Specific Aspect

Future Vision Committee of Women

& Children for the Speaker of
National Assembly
• Chairwoman
• 2013. Jan- June
• Policy Research & advocacy for Rights of
Women & Children
• Women (7 subjects, 33 indicators)
Children (8 subjects, 42 indicators)
• Final Reports (pp. 260 Abstracts)
(+ 1447 pp in detail Report)
: CD + App.
 Well Woman Clinic
( Health Promotion Clinic )
Reproductive Health (WWC)

Woman : Changing body

Through Her Lifetime

Age specific health management

through woman’s lifecycle
Reproductive Health (WWC)

Lifetime Health Management

- From the Cradle to the Tomb –
- From Birth to Death –
- from the Womb to the Tomb-

- From the Conception to the Heaven –

 삶, 인생

From the Womb to the Tomb

(From the Conception to the Heaven)
Reproductive Health (WWC)
▪ Lifecycle Specific Health Management
1. Childhood & Adolescence(Teenager)
2. Premarital Period
3. Preconceptional Period
4. Pregnancy
5. Reproductive Age
6. Perimenopausal Period
7. Post menopausal Period
Reproductive Health (WWC)
- From the Conception to the Heaven
: 7 (RAINBOW) generation
1. Nymph (요정) : fetus
2. Angel (천사) : neonate-12y.o. menarche
3. Princess (공주) : girl
4. Miss (미혼여성) : young lady
5. Ms (청장녀기) : reproductive age
6. Madam (마담) : peri & post menopause
7. Queen (여왕) : elderly women
Life Long Education
 1985-
1986

ASPO/
Lamaze

Childbirth
Education
1986
 1989
CHA Women’s Hospital
Korea
1989
1990
1991
Well Woman Clinic
1991
CHA Ctr open (1993)
Comprehensive
Health (for)
All
 Reproductive Health (WWC)
1991
⚫ Well Woman clinic could be a age-
specific health care operating system for
women through their special lifecycle in
various health care setting.
⚫ Well Woman clinic could be a gate of
qualified healthy life for all women.
Girls’ Health Promotion Clinic (WWC)
- Online & Offline , 2002 -
Girls’ Health Promotion Clinic (WWC)
Sexuality Education Material
Girls’ Health Promotion Clinic (WWC)
Girls’ Health Promotion Clinic (WWC)
Girls’ Health Promotion Clinic (WWC)
- Online, 2012 -
 Love (Universal Fraternity):

-Publius Vergilius Maro(Virgil)

(70 BC - 19 BC)
Dr. amo (Dr. Love) : Roman Poet
Dr. Ahn, Myoung Ock
Dr. amo (Dr. Love) Characters
- Ahn, Myoung Ock -
 Cartoon Book: Luna Llena’s Secret Letter
- 닥터아모 (Dr. amo: Dr. Love) -

루나레나의 비밀편 루나레나의 비밀편 루나레나의 비밀편 루나레나의 비밀편지, 루나레나의 비밀편
루나레나의 비밀편 지, 영어판
지 1판 지, 대만판 지, 중국판 지, 2판 태국판

2002 2004 2004 2005, 2nd ed. 2006 2007

Korea Taiwan China Korea Thailand English

아라의 프린세스 다
이어리

2012
Korea
 Books for General Women’s Health

건강한 가정만들기 여성종합병원

알기쉬운 응급처치법 알기쉬운 영양
1996 1996
1992, 1995 1994
 Books for Pregnant Women

라마즈 분만법 사랑의 태교 행복한 임신 280일

첫울음소리
1991 2001 2001
1985
 Books for Pregnant Women

너를 사랑한단다 당당한 임신, 똑똑한 태교 사랑의 태교일기

2003 2005 2005

 Books for Perimenopausal Women

아름다운 중년 건강한 중년, 날개를 달다 36시간 : 길고도 아픈 치매가족의

시간
2003 2012
2012
 Do No Harm!!!

“…the very
first
‘Hippoctatic requirement
Oath’ in a hospital
includes the [is] that it
promise "to should do
abstain the sick no
from harm.”
doing
harm" – Notes on
Hospitals,
1863

Hippocrates of Kos Florence Nightingale

(BC 460-377) (1820-1910)
 Thanks !

• Dr. AHN, Myoung Ock

• (Dr. amo)
• MD, PhD, DrPH, MPH