• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.42 no.2 s.119
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• pp.177-195
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• 2007

The central aim of this paper is to identify the distributional pattern of poverty and to investigate the spatial relationship between poverty and welfare service providers in Busan, Korea. It is intended to explain how the relationship of service-dependency between impoverished people and social welfare services leads to uneven social geography. Welfare services controlled by public or private agencies may support the impoverished people in different ways, generating social outcomes. By exploiting the spatial variations in the incidence of poverty and the provisions of social welfare services, this paper is to understand the dynamics of the geography of poverty from a local scale so that it can help us understand how various governmental and nongovernmental area-based service providers are spatially uneven when they are compared to the distribution of service dependency group such as impoverished people. From this research, it is finally argued that the implications of locational interdependence between such needed groups and social welfare services for their support demand a paradigm for urban social geography that centers on the changing welfare provision structure and the linkages between population and service-provision.

• Social Workers
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• no.3 s.47
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• pp.10-13
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• 2006

지난해는 본격적인 지역사회 중심의 사회복지서비스 시대의 원년이라는 수식어가 따라다닐 만큼 사회복지서비스 영역에 중대 변화를 예고했던 몇 가지 일들이 있었다. 사회복지서비스 관련 사업의 지방이양과 그에 따른 재정분권, 사회복지사업법 개정에 따른 지역사회복지체계의 구축, 지역복지계획의 수립, 사회복지사무소의 설치 등이 바로 그것이다. 이미 2001-2002년에 전국 15개 지역을 대상으로 지역사회복지협의체 시범사업이 실시되었고, 2003년 6월 사회복지사업법을 개정하여 2005년8월부터 전국234개 기초자치단체를 대상으로 지역사회복지협의체(이하 협의체)를 구성, 운영하도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.217-227
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• 2016

This paper analyzes whether social welfare services converge across the regions. We tested whether local social welfare services converge considering the congestion rate of local social welfare services during the 1985-2013 periods in Korea, using the sixteen higher level local governments panel data. The main findings are as follows. First, the absolute level of local social welfare services converge so that the -convergence exists. Second, the growth rate of local social welfare services increases as the intial level of local social welfare services is lower so that there exists -convergence. The policy implications of our findings are as follows. The local government had better consider the presence of local social welfare services in policy decision making. Also, fundamentally the social welfare policies had better be executed by the central government rather than local governments, since the national minimum welfare must be provided.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.93-120
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• 2016

This study aims to elaborate differences of demand and supply in welfare service delivery upon regions. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 welfare bureaucrats from Dong offices among largest and smallest portions of recipients in Seoul. The results indicated that there were significant differences in the proportion of welfare bureaucrats versus welfare recipients (11-450 households) of the National Basic Livelihood Guarantee System, the amount of available private sector resources, and the difficulty of providing visitation counseling upon regions. Research implications were discussed further to address regional disparities of welfare services.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.213-242
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• 2009

This study examined the factors affecting social welfare service utilization of general group and low-income group. The following influencing variables were selected based on the model developed by Anderson and Newman(1973): predisposing factors, enabling factors, need factors. The result shows that in both group the possibility of service utilization is high in case of having a spouse, more family members, feeling one's health ill, no chronic disease. And service use level is high in case of having no spouse, lower income in general group, higher income in low-income group, more family members, feeling one's health ill, having a chronic disease. In addition, the higher service use level is associated in low-income group with men rather than women, younger age, low education, the unemployed rather than the employed, urban residents, low life satisfaction. These findings provide implications and suggestions that each income group has various characteristics and needs, so it is necessary to provide comprehensive and appropriate services through the investigation for potential service recipients' needs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.402-405
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• 2013

정부 3.0의 패러다임에 맞추어 사회복지서비스의 복지정책과 수요는 폭발적으로 증가할 것이다. 이에 반해 현장에서 정책을 실질적으로 집행 할 수 있는 인력인 사회복지사 등의 부족으로 실제 국민들에게 혜택이 제대로 돌아가지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 문제점을 최소화하기 위해서 복지정책의 수정과 함께 사회복지전달체계의 시스템화는 필수적이라고 할 수 있다. 민 관의 복지서비스 지원 시스템과 흩어져 있던 복지자원을 통합하고 시민과 이웃이 모두 참여 할 수 있는 복지서비스 지워 시스템의 구축은 미래 복지서비스의 새로운 방향을 제시할 것이다. 본 논문은 사각지대에 놓인 복지수요자의 발굴이 용이하고 민 관 복지서비스를 통합해서 제공할 수 있는 새로운 사회복지전달체계 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.303-322
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• 2011

The increased needs for medical cost containment and the quality of life improvement for the low-income elderly with chronic disease require the complementary relationship between hospital care and community health services. This study investigated the current status of the linkage between Korean hospital care and community services using Seoul Welfare Panel Study(SWPS) data. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the effects of experiences of hospitalization and outpatient health services on use and needs of community health services. The analysis results indicated that the elderly with chronic disease who have not experienced outpatient health services were unlikely to receive health and social services in the community. Even those who have experienced hospitalization were not provided complementary health services in the community despite the increasing demand.

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.3-11
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• 2001

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.55
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• pp.283-307
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• 2003

The social services for the elderly have been expending in order to respond to the rapid speed of aging. However, low utilization, exclusion and duplication have been pointed out as significant problems in service utilization of the elderly. This study tried to find out the utilization patterns of social services for the elderly: what kinds of and how many social services the elderly receive from what kinds of and how many organizations, and factors influencing utilization of the social services. It surveyed the entire population of the public assistance recipient elderlies at Kyonggi province in 1999. The results show that duplication is not so significant problem as the low utilization of social services. However, the fact that more than forty five percent of the elderly receives social services from more than two organizations requires the efforts for service linkage and coordination in social service delivery system. The factors, which have relatively big influence on the number of organizations which the elderly use for each social service, were sex and age among the predisposing factors, "living alone" and place for residency among the enabling factors and the number of illness, Activities of Daily Living, Instrumental Activities of Daily Living and inconvenience of housing among the needs factors. These results call for expansion of social services for the elderly especially in the way of achieving distribution balance between the rural and urban area and activation of case management practice and local association of social service delivery agencies for service linkage and coordination.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.290-301
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• 2013

This study aimed to explore the effect of the intimacy with social workers on the use of social welfare services of marriage-based female immigrants. Also, this study verified the effect of the quantity of the welfare service-related information as a mediated variable on the use of social welfare services. For this purpose, this study collected data from a total of 304 immigrant women married to Korean men living in City of Busan, City of Ulsan, and South Gyeongsang Province, and the data was analysed by SPSS 21. As the result of study, the intimacy with social workers had significant influences on the use of social welfare services of the married immigrant women. The results also showed that the intimacy with social workers contributed to the quantity of the welfare service-related information. Based on these results, implications of the important roles of social workers and the directions of their effective roles for the marriage based female immigrants to use the social welfare services were suggested.