[Silver Bridge] Volume 2 · Chapter 11 · Two countries speed up the gate: neighbourhood clinics and a walk through the dunes

1. A column compares how South Korea and China are each trying to manage chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes before they become serious.
2. South Korea lowered the outpatient co-payment rate from 30% to 20% through its neighbourhood clinic project, which became a nationwide full-scale programme in August 2024, while China has pursued a family doctor signing service since 2016.
3. The author cites hypertension control rates of 50.4% in South Korea and 16.8% in China, and argues that community-level management has become important in both countries as their populations age.

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