• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.47-77
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• 2011

Due to the growth of people's use of the Internet as well as interests in health, people's needs of health information have rapidly increased in public libraries. Nevertheless, there are few studies in Korea about users' needs for health information and services that public libraries can offer to support these user groups. In the current study, a comprehensive literature review was conducted in order to understand the role of public libraries and librarians in serving users with health information and to identify the types of consumer health information(CHI) services available to users in public libraries. As for the CHI services that public libraries can offer for users, the current study emphasizes and discusses the directions and guidelines for improving the following six approaches: 1) CHI collection and information resource building, 2) CHI reference services, 3) CHI user education and training program development, 4) CHI services for minority/disability/cultural diversity groups of users, 5) CHI outreach program development, and 6) CHI network development with medical libraries, academic libraries, hospital, and medical institutions and associations. Although most of the discussion in the current study centers on cases and services provided in the United States or other countries, findings would be used to inform the importance of CHI services in public libraries, and to design and develop CHI services in Korea.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.1243-1255
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• 2014

This study is aimed at developing an index and indicator in the light of social factors by analyzing the basic materials on Korean working conditions survey to make it possible to grasp various working environment factors consequent on business type and to judge the industrial safety & health policy of the related area. For the purpose of developing an index, this study was conducted by benchmarking the OECD-suggested index development guidelines and overseas cases of index development. This study suggested indexes related to health by benchmarking OECD's press-state-response model. The press-state health-related indexes specified in Korean working condtions survey were found to consist of physical risk environment, working hours, business environment, and social environment, and its consequent 'state' items were comprised of mental health, physical health, absence from work due to health problems and work satisfaction as health-related items. As a result, it was found that the 'press-state index' for wage worker, regular employee, manager, clerks, expert & related personnel involved, and workers aged under 50 was relatively good; in contrast, the 'press-state index' for people aged over 50, owner-operator, daily job, skilled position in agriculture & fisheries, simple labor service, and apparatus & machines assembly worker was found to be relatively vulnerable.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.397-402
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• 2013

This study suggests considerations for legislation of radiopharmaceutical manufacturing practice according as the Korea Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and guidelines on foreign radiopharmaceutical manufacturing practice. Pharmaceuticals should be verified safety, effectiveness, and uniformity. Therefore, it is expected that the efficiency of the administration of radiopharmaceuticals increase and nation's health promote if rational manufacturing management to consider of radiopharmaceutical properties is legislated.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.339-340
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• 2008

전자계가 인체건강에 미치는 영향에 대해 막연한 불안감을 갖고 있는 실정이다. 그러나 최근까지도 국내외 주요 동물실험 결과에서 어떠한 과학적 근거도 입증할 수 없는 상태이며, 세계보건기구(WHO)의 연구결과는 국제가이드라인을 반드시 지킬 것을 권장하고 있으며, 과학적 사실에 주의를 기울이면서 관련 연구프로그램을 장려하고, 자의적으로 낮은 노출제한치를 적용하는 것은 정당하지 않다고 발표하였다. 본고에서는 주요 동물실험결과, WHO 연구결과, 국내 전력설비별 전자계 노출현황, 대국민 인식조사 및 소송사례에 대해 검토하고 전자계의 안전성에 대해 고찰하고자 한다.

• Food Industry
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• s.209
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• pp.49-91
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• 2009

"어린이 식생활안전관리 특별법"이 2009년 3월 22일부터 시행된다. 특별법은 안전하고 영양을 고루 갖춘 식품을 제공하는 데 필요한 사항을 규정함으로써 어린이 건강증진에 기여함을 목적으로 하고 있다. 이러한 목적을 달성하기 위해 정부에서는 법 시행과 더불어 어린이 식생활 환경 개선을 위한 다양한 정책을 추진하고자 한다. 식품의약품안전청에서는 특별법에 따라 추진되는 정책에 대한 이해를 돕기 위하여 어린이 식생활 안전관리 지침을 마련하였다. 동 지침은 지자체 등 관련 기관이 보다 구체적으로 정책을 수립할 수 있도록 추진 업무의 기본 방향 및 세부 내용을 소개하고 있다. 특히 식품안전보호구역 지정 관리가 보다 체계적으로 진행될 수 있도록 필요한 사항에 대한 가이드라인을 제시하였다. 더불어 고열량 저영양 식품 관리 등 특별법에 따른 주요업무에 대한 개략적인 내용도 함께 제시하였다. 올해는 특별법이 처음으로 시행되는 시기이다. 동 지침의 주요내용을 본지에 나누어 게재하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.292-293
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• 2018

여가생활과 건강에 대한 관심이 증대함에 따라 웰니스와 휴양과 관련한 컨텐츠가 요구되면서 산림치유, 해양치유와 같은 헬스 투어리즘에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 산과 바다를 모두 갖고 있는 우리나라의 경우 치유산업의 발전가능성이 충분하고 치유자원 발굴, 효능에 관련된 연구도 진행되고 있다. 해양치유시설은 프로그램에 맞게 제어 가능한 실내에 비해 옥외활동에는 가능한 시간, 기후가 한정되어 있으며 지역특성에 따라 달리 적용되어야 함에도 불구하고 아직 명확한 기준이 미비하다. 이에 본 연구는 해양치유 옥외활동에 적합한 기후환경 가이드라인 개발을 위해 온열환경, 풍환경, 공기환경 및 체감온도, 불쾌지수와 같은 생활지수와 같은 항목을 정리하고 해당 데이터를 활용하여 옥외활동을 할 수 있는 시간, 기후 등 판단기준을 작성하고자 한다.

• Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
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• v.57 no.4
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• pp.287-300
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• 2018

Of the different phases of bipolar disorder, bipolar depression is more prevailing and is more difficult to treat. However, there is a deficit in systemic research on the pharmacological treatment of acute bipolar depression. Therefore, consensuses on the pharmacological treatment strategies of acute bipolar depression has yet to be made. Currently, there are only three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for acute bipolar depression : quetiapine, olanzapine-fluoxetine complex, and lurasidone. In clinical practice, other drugs such as mood stabilizers (lamotrigine, lithium, valproate) and/or the other atypical antipsychotics (aripiprazole, risperidone, ziprasidone) are frequently prescribed. There remains controversy on the use of antidepressants in bipolar depression. Here, we summarized the evidence of current pharmacological treatment options and reviewed treatment guidelines of acute bipolar depression from recently published studies.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1-6
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• 2012

In modern society, the amount of information has been significantly increased according to the development of IT convergence technology. That leads to develop information obtaining and searching technologies from lots of data. However, they don't seem to have been actually effective for users' health care and promotion not only for limitations of Web-based information and but for lack of personalization. Health information support services have been generally developed in a format of inputting data on bio-information acquired into the computer for the existing network-based transmission. In this paper, a life habits disease system that uses the existing medical data and Framingham risk factor(FRS) performs neural network is proposed. Based on the proposed system, it is possible to provide the fundamental data and guideline to doctors for recognizing the life habits disease diagnosis of patients and that represents increases in the welfare of patients.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.1017-1023
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• 2003

Recently, the use an electric apparatus has brought into concerns about health risks from exposure to electromagnetic fields. During the last 2 decades, a number of epidemiological studies have explored the association between childhood leukaemia and residential exposure to power-frequency electromagnetic fields. Several studies have suggested that there is a small excess leukaemia risk with magnetic field exposure above 2 mG. A number of governmental and international organizations have developed exposure gudelines. The most rigid regulation with exposure levels for the elementary school and hospital has been enacted by Switzerland. Although there is no convincing supportive laboratory evidence, and the absence of a plausible biological mechanism of disease causation limits, governments are increasingly called on to adopt precautionary approaches to regulating electromagnetic field exposures. The government would need to establish the policy for electromagnetic fields and continually to be concerned about possible health risks from exposure to electromagnetic fields.

• Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.51-55
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• 2020

In this paper, we reviewed domestic and foreign cases and evaluation methods for validation of sleep products for development of the domestic sleep industry. Foreign companies and organizations are trying to verify products relatively systematically for demonstration purposes, but they are using different methods depending on the institution, and standardized validation guidelines have not been established. In Korea, there has been little evaluation including objective verification for sleep products. Sleep-wake evaluation for validation of sleep products requires expert evaluation of the product and of the product effectiveness by users, and subjective and objective sleep-wake evaluations and circadian rhythm evaluation methods can be used. For more accurate verification, experimental designs such as randomization method, control product utilization method, and cross-experiment design can be used.