• RED RIBBON
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• s.70
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• pp.16-18
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• 2006

사람이 죽는 방법이 몇 가지나 될까? 각종 질병사, 사고사, 자살…등등 일일이 열거하기 어려울 것이다. 그중에서도, 한국 사람을 많이 죽이는 나쁜 병 상위 4가지는 암/ 중풍/ 심장병/ 당뇨이다. 이 4가지 병으로 사망하는 사람이 전체 사망자의 50%를 넘는다. 그런데 이러한 흔한 사망원인들을 일으키는 위험요소 중 최고로 해로운 놈이 바로 담배다. 금연을 권하면, 담배피고도 오래 사는 옆집 할아버지를 들먹거리는 사람들이 꼭 있다. 물론 담배를 많이 피워도 폐암에 잘 안 걸 리는 사람도 있다. 이런 분들은 유전적으로 폐암에 대한 면역력이 강한 분들이다. 하지만, 당신도 그럴까? 개개인의 면역력에 따라서 흡연의 해독은 더 크게도 좀 약하게도 나타날 수 있다. 안그래도 면역력이 약한 HIV 환우들에게 흡연은 반드시 물리쳐야 하는 적중의 적인 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.498-501
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• 2003

현장이 개설되어 공사가 진행되어지는 중에 발생하는 예상할 수 있는 악재들, 즉 주변민원, 기능인력부족, 자재나 장비 파동, 급격한 기후의 변화(폭설, 폭우 등), 예상보다 긴 장마, 가설물의 붕괴 및 전도 등의 요인들은 그 원인이 현장내부가 아닌 외적인 환경에 의한 것이었고 따라서 단위현장 1개소가 아닌 일정지역에 있는 현장들이 공통으로 겪게되는 일종의 난관이었다. 그러나 현장 내에서 작업 중에 발생하는 사망사고는 일단 현장내 원인으로 발생되고, 타 현장과는 공유할 수 없는 사안이라는 점에서 앞서 밝힌 외적요인들과는 근본적으로 다르다 하겠다.(중략)

• 건강소식
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• v.16 no.5 s.162
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• pp.66-69
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• 1992

각종 심장질환은 세계 사망원인의 1위를 차지하고 있다. 또한 선진국의 병으로만 생각했던 심장병이 여러가지 원인에 의해 이제는 개발도상국에서도 심각한 문제가 되었다. WHO는 이러한 추세에 따라 올해의 보건의 달 슬로건을 "튼튼한 심장, 건강의 상징 (Heartbeat-The Rhythm of Health)" 으로 정하고 "심장병 예방"에 대한 계몽에 나서고 있다. 본 글은, 4월 보건의 달을 맞이하여, 심장질환 예방을 위한 프로그램등을 소개한 WHO의 자료를 번역한 것으로 약 4회에 걸쳐 게재된다.(편집자 주)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Community Living Science Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.137-138
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• 2003

최근 우리나라에서 발병하는 질병의 종류와 사망원인이 과거와는 다른 양상을 보이고있다. 이 양상은 우리의 식생활이 서구화되어 가는 과정에서 야기되는 영양섭취의 불균형과 잘못된 식습관이 그 원인이 되는 것으로 알려져 있다. 그러므로 일반인이나 환자들이 영양에 관한 정확한 정보를 얻는 것은 이와 같은 만성질환의 예방 및 치료에 매우 효과적일 것이다. 특히 진료인으로 부터 얻는 영양정보는 환자에게 큰 영향을 끼치며, 바른 영양정보는 치료효과를 높일 수 있을 것이다. 환자들도 진료인으로 부터 의학적인 정보와 더불어 영양에 대한 정보를 제공받기를 원하고 있는 것으로 알려져 있다.

• 건강소식
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• v.16 no.7 s.164
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• pp.64-67
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• 1992

각종 심장질환은 세계 사망원인의 1위를 차지하고 있다. 또한 선진국의 병으로만 생각했던 심장병이 여러가지 원인에 의해 이제는 개발도상국에서도 심각한 문제가 되었다. WHO는 이러한 추세에 따라 올해의 보건의 달 슬로건을 "튼튼한 심장, 건강의 상징(Hearetbeat-The Rhythm of Health)" 으로 정하고 "심장병 예방"에 대한 계몽에 나서고 있다. 본 글은, 심장질환 예방을 위한 프로그램등을 소개한 WHO의 자료를 번역한 것으로 약 4회에 걸쳐 게재된다.(편집자 주)

• Neonatal Medicine
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.154-162
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• 2009

Purpose: Death is an important problem for physicians and parents in neonatal intensive care unit. This study was intended to evaluate the mortality rate, causes of death, and the change of mortality rate by year for infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Methods: We retrospectively surveyed the medical records of the infants who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit at Asan Medical Center and who died before discharge between 1998 and 2007. Gestational age, birth weight, gender, time to death and the underlying diseases related to the causes of infant deaths and obtained from the medical records and analyzed according to year. Results: A total of 6,289 infants were admitted and 264 infants died during the study period. The overall mortality rate was 4.2%. For very low and extremely low birth weight infants, the mortality rate was 10.6% and 21.4%, respectively. There was no significant change in the mortality rate during the study period. Prematurity related complications and congenital anomalies were the conditions most frequently associated with death in the neonatal intensive care unit. of the infant deaths 37.1% occurred within the first week of life. Conclusion: Even though a remarkable improvement in neonatal intensive care has been achieved in recent years, the overall mortality rate has not changed. To reduce the mortality rate, it is important to control sepsis and prevent premature births. The first postnatal week is a critical period for deaths in the neonatal intensive care unit.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.197-203
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• 1988

In order to examine cause-specific mortality in Korea by comparing mortality of Japan, various mortality indicators are calculated using 1995 of ficial statistics of twonations. The mortality measures are cause-specific mortality rate by sex, age, andmarital status, cause-specific age-standardized death rate and potential years of lifelost, and their ratios by sex and nation. Items of major causes of death include allcauses (total deaths),tuberculosis, malignant neoplasm, diabetes mellitushypertensive diseases, heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, liver diseasestransport accidents, and suicide. Major characteristics of mortality in Korea are asfollows . (1) Death rates from most causes except suicide are higher in Korea thanJapan and especially death rates from tuberculosis, hypertensive diseases, liverdiseases, and transport accidents are higher for economically active Koreans : (2)Death rates from tuberculosis, liver diseases, transport accidents, and malignantneoplasm are salient for Korean children (3) Sex-differentials in mortality fromliver diseases, tuberculosis , and transport accidents are large for economically activeKoreans, because male mortality is higher than female mortality : (4) Suicide ratesare lower for economically active males, and higher for females aged 10s and 20s inKorea than Japan : (5) Death rates are highest f3r divorced or widowed under 45years of age depending on causes, but death rates from all causes are highest fornever-married of the age 45 and over in Korea : and (6) Sex-differentials inmortality are greatest for widowed in Korea and for divorced in Japan.

• KOREAN POULTRY JOURNAL
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• v.5 no.7 s.45
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• pp.65-65
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• 1973

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.225-237
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• 2024

In the analysis of competing risks data, some of covariates may not be fully observed for some subjects. In such cases, excluding subjects with missing covariate values from the analysis may result in biased estimates and loss of efficiency. In this paper, we studied multiple imputation and the augmented inverse probability weighting method for regression parameter estimation in the cause-specific proportional hazards model with missing covariates. The performance of estimators obtained from multiple imputation and the augmented inverse probability weighting method is evaluated by simulation studies, which show that those methods perform well. Multiple imputation and the augmented inverse probability weighting method were applied to investigate significant risk factors for the risk of death from breast cancer and from other causes for breast cancer data with missing values for tumor size obtained from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screen Trial Study. Under the cause-specific proportional hazards model, the methods show that race, marital status, stage, grade, and tumor size are significant risk factors for breast cancer mortality, and stage has the greatest effect on increasing the risk of breast cancer death. Age at diagnosis and tumor size have significant effects on increasing the risk of other-cause death.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.207-234
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• 2001

Even though the number of Korean Americans has dramatically increased over the last 20 years, there have been very few studies that have examined the health of this population. This paper investigates the contemporary health status of Korean Americans in comparison to Koreans, employing mortality related health measures: life expectance, age-specific death rates, and leading cause of death. Overall, we find that Korean American adults enjoy longer life expectancy and lower age-specific death rates than do their Korean counterparts, suggesting superior health status of the former as compared to the latter. Comparison of leading causes of death indicates that Korean American adults (age of 25-64) are more likely to die from neoplasms than are their Korean counterparts, while Koreans show a dramatically higher probability of death from liver-related diseases than Korean Americans. When these two cause of death are regressed on various demographic and socioeconomic factors, the difference in prevalence of neoplasms between the two populations disappeared, while that of liver-related diseases remains unaffected. Based on the outcomes from this research, we suggest that Korean Americans are a self-selected group in terms of health and socioeconomic status, and they adopt healthy behaviors after immigration. This has resulted in the relatively superior health of Korean Americans as compared to Koreans.