What is the Global Health Security Index of South Korea? According to the 2019 Global Health and Safety Index of Johns Hopkins University, Korea scored 70.2 points in full 100 points, ranking ninth among 195 countries. Among Asian countries, it is second next to Thailand, which receives 73.2 points. The country with the highest Global Health Security index recorded 83.5 for the United States, while Britain came in second with 77.9.
Among the top 10 countries, Korea and Thailand are the only Asian countries, while the rest are all North American and Western European countries. Of the six evaluation categories, Korea scored 92.1 points in disease detection, the highest rating, but we scored 57.3 points in prevention categories, the lowest score.
According to an assessment by Johns Hopkins University, the nation’s health and safety system is comparable to that of Western advanced countries. As long as the nation’s quarantine system works properly, chances are not likely that the Novel coronavirus will spread rapidly like China.
Johns Hopkins University and the Economist said the importance of international cooperation to prevent the spread of contagious diseases has increased since the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa in 2014. As a result, they will develop the Global Health Security Index with the aim of raising alarm in the international community through objective evaluation of medical health systems from around the world,” the official said.
The Global Health Security Index is an evaluation index released annually by 21 experts from 13 countries and international organizations to evaluate individual countries’ ability to prevent and respond to infectious diseases according to more than 80 criteria in six areas.
