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Family Welfare Policies and Fertility Rate (가족복지정책과 출산율)

  • Chai, Goo-MooK
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.57 no.3
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    • pp.337-361
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    • 2005

  • This study seeks the implications for the Korean family welfare policies after examining the characteristics of fertility rates and family welfare policies of advanced OECD countries, and comparatively analyzing the fertility rates among clusters of countries having similar family welfare policies. The fertility rates of most advanced OECD countries declined below the population replacement level in the 1970s, and continuously declined slowly after that period. But in the 1990s the fertility rate of some countries increased, on the other hand that of other countries declined. Such a difference of fertility rates suggests that there is some correlation between the fertility rate and the family welfare policy of each country. Advanced countries became concerned about the decline of fertility rate, established the government Population Issues Committee in order to deal with population problems, and increased family welfare supports. But the level and pattern(focusing on maternal employment supports or child-rearing supports) of each country's family welfare policies are differently developed according to its political ideology, cultural and historical background, and economic environments. A comparative assessment of the fertility rate among clusters of countries having similar family welfare policies demonstrates that the higher the level of family welfare supports is and the level of maternal employment supports in comparison with that of maternal child-rearing supports is, the higher of fertility rate is. And a comparative assessment of the fertility rate changes among clusters of countries also shows that the higher the level of family welfare supports is and the level of maternal employment supports in comparison with that of maternal child-rearing supports is, the higher the increase of fertility rate is or the lower the decrease of fertility rate is. The implications for the Korean family welfare policies are summarized as follows. First, it is necessary to establish the government Population Issues Committee which can study systematically fertility rates and population problems, and provide comprehensive population measures. Second, family welfare supports should be expanded through the establishment of family allowances, the prolongation of maternity leave and child-care leave and the upward readjustment of child-care leave benefits, and the extension of public child-care facilities. Third, maternal employment supports such as public child-care facilities and maternity leave should be given more weight than maternal child-rearing supports such as family allowance. Fourth, it is required to prepare social environments which can provide the youth with the hope that child-rearing is not difficult and gives them happiness.

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Health Policy for The Senile Dementia in Korea (치매노인의 건강한 삶을 위한 노인복지정책 방향)

  • 최용민
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.729-736
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    • 1998

  • The purpose of this study is to examine the senile dementia in Korea and then provides policy alternatives for the heal-thy life of the aged. The increaase of life expectancy is the hope for all, accordingly unhealthy life will be misfortune for them including their family. The physiological dysfunction of human body causes diverse problems. Among them, the most serious one is the malfunction of brain to include both Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia. When considering the poor analysis for senile dementia and the non-systematic aspect of national health policy for the aged, this paper has concluded that more planned programs should be developed for the aged in viewpoint of national criteria.

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A Study on the Relationship Between Child Poverty Rate and Family Policy Expenditure of Welfare States -Focused on OECD Countries- (복지국가의 아동·가족복지지출과 아동빈곤율의 관계 -OECD 국가를 중심으로-)

  • Ryu, Yun Kyu;Baek, Seung Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Child Welfare
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    • no.36
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    • pp.65-99
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    • 2011

  • The main purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between child poverty rate and family policy expenditure of welfare states (focusing on OECD countries). We analyzed not only the total social & family policy expenditures but the components of the family policy expenditure. OECD SOCX and calculated data from the LIS & OECD data were utilized for child and family policy expenditures and the poverty rate. One-way correlation and cluster analysis were employed for the analysis. The analytic results are as follows: Southern European and Anglo-Saxon countries' child poverty rates were higher and Scandinavian countries' child poverty rates were lower than any other clusters. The countries with high child poverty rate had higher child poverty rate than the entire nation's poverty rate, but Scandinavian countries' child poverty rate was lower. There was a strong correlation between family policy expenditure and child poverty rate. Especially the service expenditure and leave benefit expenditure were highly correlated with child poverty rate. On the other hand, cash expenditure was not significantly correlated with child poverty rate. We can suggest the policy implications from these results. Based on the analytic results, policy implications that the government should increase the family policy budget, especially the budget for family services and leave benefit to decrease child poverty rate and should make effort to support the employment of parents through policies such as active labor market strategies can be suggested.

Nursing in Family and Welfare: Political Meanings of the 'Pflegeversicherung' (가족내 간병과 간병보험의 복지정책적 함의)

  • 이진숙
    • Korea journal of population studies
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.183-202
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    • 2001

  • Traditionally the women have had responsibility for homework, blinding-up of the children and caring of the aged in the family. But in models society the women would like to take jobs much more than in the past, and therefore women who have jobs are in the condition of mental and physical stress very heavily. So it is urgently needed of the social-political arrangements for caring-worker in the family (generally the women). This paper examines this problem, especially problem of the nursing of the aged in the family, and compares the political arrangements between in Korea and Germany.

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