WHO Palliative Care → Korea Hospice & Life-Sustaining Treatment Act
Echo patterns are similarity-based hypotheses, not proof of causation. Open the sources and evaluate the linkage yourself.
Evidence Scorecard
Three lenses — wording, timing, documented link. Not a single proof score.
Computed with intfloat/multilingual-e5-small multilingual embeddings. Display score is a calibrated mapping of the raw cross-lingual cosine (0.788); higher means closer meaning. Reflects semantic similarity, not proof of causation.
Could also be…show
- •Parallel domestic policy development is possible.
- •Industry or market pressure may have driven similar language.
- •A common external shock (e.g., financial crisis, pandemic) could explain parallel adoption.
Timeline of the echo
2 year lagFrom date field: 2014 global instrument → 2016 Korean enactment · 2014 global instrument → 2016 Korean enactment
Interrogate the Evidence
Answers are rendered directly from this record’s own curated fields — nothing is generated.
Bprobable echo · 78%
- SemanticStrong semantic alignment
- TemporalGlobal precedent precedes Korea
- LinkageOfficial Korean agency source + concept alignment (no explicit citation recorded)
Matched concepts: palliative care ↔ 호스피스; hospice ↔ 완화의료; end of life ↔ 임종
Cross-lingual similarity 36/100 (multilingual e5 embedding) — a computed signal, not proof.
Similarity type: policy integration emulation
Matched Concepts
3 pairsAgenda Arc
CuratedGlobal purpose, Korean purpose, and precursor stages. Reasoning echo is discourse observation — not proof of coordination.
Carry WHO rules into domestic effect: align Korea Hospice & Life-Sustaining Treatment Act under WHO Palliative Care.
한국은 2016년 2월 3일 「호스피스·완화의료 및 임종과정에 있는 환자의 연명의료결정에 관한 법률」(법률 제14013호)을 제정하여(시행 2018. 2.
국가법령정보센터 · 호스피스·완화의료 및 임종과정에 있는 환자의 연명의료결정에 관한 법률 — 한국은 2016년 2월 3일 「호스피스·완화의료 및 임종과정에 있는 환자의 연명의료결정에 관한 법률」(법률 제14013호)을 제정하여(시행 2018. 2.
Observed framing link: policy integration emulation. Not a claim of coordination.
WHO
2014 global instrument → 2016 Korean enactment
- Soft lawGlobal2014WHOglobal instrument
2014 global instrument
Primary source - LegislationKorea2016KoreaKorean enactment
2016 Korean enactment
Primary source
The WHO Global Atlas of Palliative Care① (1st ed. 2014, 2nd ed. 2020), produced jointly with the Worldwide Hospice② Palliative Care Alliance, provides country-level data and policy guidance on integrating palliative care into health systems; it is underpinned by WHA resolution 67.19 (May 2014), which called on all member states to embed palliative care as a core component of universal health coverage, with emphasis on home- and community-based care and advance care planning.
한국은 2016년 2월 3일 「호스피스①·완화의료② 및 임종③과정에 있는 환자의 연명의료결정에 관한 법률」(법률 제14013호)을 제정하여(시행 2018. 2. 4.), 입원형·가정형·자문형 호스피스 3가지 유형을 법제화하고(제25조), 사전연명의료의향서 등록·관리 체계를 도입하였으며(제12조), 보건복지부가 5개년 종합계획 수립(제7조) 및 중앙호스피스센터 운영(제23조)을 통해 WHO 완화의료 통합 지침을 국내 정책으로 구현하고 있다.
Echo Strength
2014 global instrument → 2016 Korean enactment
policy integration emulation
Sources
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