• 한국노년학
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.593-610
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• 2009

The Purpose of this study are to examine the middle-age and old worker's employment rates by age and gender at economic depression and recovery periods after the economic crisis, to identify the main 3causes of the change of the middle-age and old worker's employment rates between two periods, and to analyze whether the determinants affecting the middle-age and old worker's employment may be different by age and gender. For this study, The Annual Korean Labor Panel data(from 1st to 7th) are used. The results show that the employment rates are increased in the economic recovery period, and the difference between male and female employment rates decrease as ages go up. As we predicted, the determinants affecting the middle-age and old worker's employment are different by age and gender. For example, the existence of partner has positive effect on the male employment, but negative effect on female employment. The increases of the middle and old age worker's employment rates in the recovery period are mainly caused by the extension of the individualism(that is, the increases of the middle and upper class workers' employment), rather than the increases of the poor workers' employment rates due to the poverty(that is, the increases of the lower and poor class workers' employment). In the recovery period, comparing to the economic depression periods, the middle-age and old workers in the high class were likely to remain his(her) a good job while those in lower class are more difficult to get a job. This results show that the polarization of middle-age and old worker's employment has been appeared in the recovery periods(after 2001).

• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.63-72
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• 2009

고령 근로자의 작업환경 실태와 건강검진 자료를 분석하여 그들의 건강한 생활과 삶의 질을 향상시킬 수 있는 정책의 기초자료를 마련하고자 시도되었다. 대상자는 부산, 경남지역에 소재하는 41개 사업장에서 유해인자에 노출되어 작업하는 공정에 있는 50세 이상 근로자 112명(남성 91명, 여성 21명)을 대상으로 소음, 분진, 유기용제, 중금속, 작업형태 및 작업강도 등을 측정, 분석하였으며, 건강검진 자료는 일반건강진단표를 이용하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 대상자의 평균연령은 54.9(남성 55세, 여성 54.7세) 세였으며, 평균근무기간은 8.7년이 였으며, 조사대상 사업장중 71.5%가 50인 이하의 근로자를 고용하고 있는 사업장이 였다. 2. 소음에 폭로 대상자 중 31.3%가 90dB(A)인 노출기준치을 초과하였으며, 그 외의 분진, 유기용제, 중금속 등의 노출기준치를 초과한 대상자는 없었다. 3. 조사대상자 중 9%는 청력이 비정상이였으며, 78.6%의 대상자는 경작업과 중등작업을 하였으며, 52.7%는 전신을 이용하여 작업하는 형태였다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.66 no.1
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• pp.61-85
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• 2014

Lately, as the problem of the aged poverty becomes a big social issue, this paper studies the problem of financial stability with respect to the income and consumption of before-and-after retirement generations. After dividing the data in Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing(KLoSA) into retired and non-retired groups, this study compares the difference among ageing groups by cross analysis and t-test. First, the result tells that the total personal income of retired group is lower than the one of non-retired group. Second, the public pension income benefit ratio of retired group is only 30% of it's total income, and the amount of public pension appears to be 40% of the total pension income. The benefit ratio of the personal pension income is low as about 1% in both groups, The private transfer income of the retired group takes relatively large portion in its total personal income. Third, as people gets older, financial stability gets worse because consumption does not decrease as much as the income decreases. Fourth, it is turned out that the expectation of old life supporting from nation is low in both groups. Fifth, the factors that affects the income of the public pension in the retired group are gender, age, education, and health status, when compared with the factors to the personal total income of the non-retired group. In terms of policy, this paper emphasizes the needs of the intensification of the public pension and the support for the revitalization of the personal pension.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.29-36
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• 2023

In order to prevent industrial accidents, this study presented a methodology to ensure that risk aggravating factors are reflected in risk assessments at manufacturing sites and demonstrated it by applying it to actual manufacturing sites. As a result of a statistical analysis of all 242,906 accidents that occurred in the manufacturing industry over the past 10 years, new workers less than 6 months old, foreign workers, older workers over 55 years old, and jobs where hands and arms are exposed to risk areas, Non-routine work performed from 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock showed a significantly high accident rate. In addition, a weighted value was applied to estimate the possibility of an accident at the risk determination stage through focus group interviews. Through the results of this study, risk weighting factors can be quantitatively reflected in risk assessment, which is meaningful in preventing accidents by evaluating the size of the identified risk closer.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.1-11
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• 2013

The adult guardianship system took effect from July 2013, to protect adults who need protection due to insufficient ability to judge. Even though many problems are founded in countries like France and Japan which perform Adult guardianship system, they are promoting practical settlement of system and protection of the adults requiring protection through continuous supplementation of system. It is essential to solve cost problem for successful establishment of adult guardianship system because reasonable control of social security expenditure, in an aging society, is a common task for all countries. Therefore, in this study, cost problem occurred in the enforcement of adult guardianship system is to be examined and through these findings, several strategies were suggested to solve it in Korea.

• 한국노년학
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.393-408
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• 2007

This study examines the impact of retirement on psychological well-being of the elderly and identifies whether associative factors of psychological well-being differ between retired and non-retired persons. Psychological well-being is measured by the PGCMS developed by Lawton. The sample includes 1,625 older adults aged 60 and over, which derived from the cross-sectional data of the "Aging and the Quality of Life of the Elderly in Korea: A Longitudinal Study" living in Seoul and Chuncheon in 2003. Multivariate OLS regression results show that retirement is not associated with psychological well-being after controlling socio-demographic characteristics, economic status, health status, family and social relations, participation in social activities, and satisfaction with hobbies and learning needs. Also, associative factors of psychological well-being differ between retired and non-retired persons. For retired persons, greater social activities and higher satisfaction with hobbies are associated with the higher level of psychological well-being whereas higher satisfaction with learning needs has a positive relationship with the higher level of psychological well-being for non-retired persons. Discussion and implications of the findings are presented, and limitations of this study are acknowledged.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.424-434
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• 2021

People who face retirement in aging society experience changes in resilience and psychological depression. As the baby boomer generation, which has played a central role in Korea's economic and social sectors, begins retiring, interest in their post-retirement lives has also increased. Thus, this study investigates the effects of a forest healing program using forest healing factors of ecological forests on the resilience and depression of baby-boomer retirees. This experiment divided 58 subjects in the baby boomer generation into three groups and examined differences among the groups. The result showed that the subjects in the forest healing program group (FHPG) had a very significant increase in resilience and a statistically significant decrease in depression compared to those in the forest healing program non-participation group (FHNG) and the daily life group (DLG). Therefore, it can be said participating in the forest healing program is more effective for retirees than voluntary forest activities. The results of this study can be used as basic data for research on the resilience and depression of retirees.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.798-801
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• 2009

인구의 고령화와 정보통신 기술의 발전이 맞물리면서 의료비 지출에 대한 절감의 필요성과 편리한 의료 서비스를 이용하고자 하는 소비자의 욕구, 병원에 구축된 IT인프라의 효과를 극대화 시키고자하는 공급자의 욕구 등이 부합되면서 그 기반이 조성된 것으로 볼 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 u-health 소프트웨어의 분야의 기반 기술을 조사하고 u-health 소프트웨어 시장과 표준화 동향을 조사하며 u-health 소프트웨어 신뢰성의 품질평가 메트릭을 개발하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.146-153
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• 2010

The objectives of this study were to explore food-related lifestyle segments of the older consumers, to identify its socio-demographic characteristics, and to investigate the differences in variables regarding health beliefs. A survey was conducted of adults 55 years of age and older living in Seoul, South Korea from March 28 to April 10, 2007. Out of the 500 distributed questionnaires, 361 were retained for final analysis: a response rate of 72.2%. As a result of cluster analysis, five consumer segments were identified; health-managing group, diet-unconcerned group, convenience-oriented group, taste-oriented group, unpracticed group. Significant differences were found among the five segments in terms of socio-demographic characteristics and variables regarding health beliefs (i.e., perceived self-efficacy, perceived barriers, perceived benefits). In the health-managing group and taste-oriented group, mean scores of perceived self-efficacy (p<0.001) and perceived benefits (p<0.001) were significantly higher than other groups. However, in the diet-unconcerned group and convenience-oriented group, the mean scores of perceived barriers (p<0.01) were significantly high. This study shows that foodservice operators targeting the older consumers should consider characteristics of each segment to develop a customized program.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.167-193
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• 1995

사망원인통계연보는 사망발생 당년에 신고된 사망 자료만 수록하고 있는데, 본 연구에서는 사망원인통계연보에 수록된 사망(당년신고, 또는 비지연신고)은 물론 수록되지 아니한 사망(지연신고)의 사인구조를 파악하고자 한다. 부차적으로, 사인구조를 평가하기 위해서 지연신고의 다양한 특성을 검토하고 있다. 1983년부터 1993년까지 신고된 모든 사망신고를 기초로, 지연신고와 당년신고라는 신고행태에 따라 사인별 사망구성비, 사망률, 사망률성비를 구하였다. 지연신고율이 지속적으로 감소하고 있지만, 지연신고율은 다른 집단보다 여성, 젊은층, 의사진단사망자, 병원사망자에게서 더 높다. 당년신고 사망자의 성별 사인구조와 비교해 볼 때, 지연신고 사망자의 주요 사인구조는 성별에 따라 달라지는데, 남성에게는 감염성질환, 순환기계질환, 호흡기계질환의 비중이 더 커지고, 여성에게는 감염성질환, 호흡기계질환 및 소화기계질환의 비중이 더 커진다. 1983~1993년 동안 신고된 모든 사망에 대한 주요 발견은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 순환기계질환, 악성 종양, 손상 및 중독이 남녀 모두에게 주요 3대 사인이다. 둘째, 만성 간질환, 각종 사고, 폐암, 자살은 남성에게 치명적인 사인으로서 남녀의 성별 사망력 차이를 넓혀주는 원인이다. 세째, 손상 및 중독, 특히 교통사고는 45세 이하의 젊은 층에게 중요한 사인이 되는데 반해, 순환기계질환, 악성 종양, 소화기계질환은 고령층에게 중요한 사인이 된다.