Since 1970, over 2,000 students in the master’s program have enrolled in the course “Community Health Field Training” at the CCHRC, resulting in the publication of biennial reports and over 200 papers.

To promote voluntary participation of the community in the Center’s programs, public health research and projects are carried out in cooperation with government authorities. Research and projects provided by the center cover areas including maternal and child health services, family planning, environmental health services, health education and dental hygiene. In June 1974, an experimental community health insurance plan was initiated in Shindong Myun and was fully adopted by the city of Chuncheon in 1977. The plan was successfully operated and, with the voluntary participation of over 40,000 people, it became the model for the national health insurance program until its merging into the national program in 1990.The clinic at the Center provides primary medical care to an average of 80 community people a day.

Professors of the GSPH have been involved in the Center’s research and projects, and based on the evaluation of research results, they have offered information for national health care policies and programs. Ongoing CCHRC research and services concern: industrial health, custodial care in institutions, training for students and men/women in public health, community education on health topics, mental health and elderly care, such as eye care, and disease dentification and control, i.e. hypertension.