Findings from University of Ulsan Advance Knowledge in Public Health (Insurance Fraud in Korea, Its Seriousness, and Policy Implications): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2021 NOV 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily -- Data detailed on public health have been presented. According to news reporting out of Ulsan, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Several characteristics of insurance fraud including its chronic nature justifies the need for identifying feasible proposals which can be expected to bring about significant impacts.”

Our news reporters obtained a quote from the research from University of Ulsan: “Recent statistics show that insurance fraud is now consistently on the increase. However, insurance fraud is highly fragmented and each offence is not significant enough to elicit active interest among the public or interventions from the police. Three problems have been identified and diagnosed. These were a lack of awareness, an absence of a national leadership and also limited attention directed to insurance fraud by the investigating authorities. Based on these, three recommendations have been suggested.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “(1) Embarking on and developing a national initiative by central government, (2) Taking a dynamic concentration approach to send deterrent threats to potential fraudsters, and (3) Using big data technologies to detect clandestine activities by organised groups.”

For more information on this research see: Insurance Fraud in Korea, Its Seriousness, and Policy Implications. Frontiers in Public Health, 2021,9. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health). The publisher for Frontiers in Public Health is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.791820.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Jeyong Jung, Department of Police Science, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Byung-Jik Kim.

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