• Health Policy and Management
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.88-94
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• 2017

The aim of this study was to investigate the current and trend of healthcare status of South Korea compared to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. We used the position value for relative comparison (PARC) method for measuring the healthcare status of South Korea by five parts of healthcare policy (demand, supply, accessibility, quality, and cost). Additionally, we conducted Mann-Kendall test for analyzing the trend of PARC from 2000 to the present. Demand, supply, accessibility, and quality of healthcare of Korea were located upon the average of OECD countries, and showed an increasing trend from 2000 to the present. However, primary care and screening for cervical cancer were placed at a lower level compared the OECD average. In conclusion, the current state of healthcare in Korea seems to be generally beyond the average among OECD countries. However, some parts, including primary care, need to be improved.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.53-60
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• 2004

This paper is the study for the automatic pulse-power diagnostic system to discriminate the four constitutions with the piezo-sensor module and digital signal processing hardware attached on the patient arm-neck and the statistical decision software instead of the fingers and intelligence of a traditional korean doctor. This system can be used as a important medical equipment because this automatically diagnostic system has shown the excellent performance of the 65∼76% correctness against the 50∼66% correctness which the general korean doctors with knowledge and experiences have shown. Additionally, this paper has discussed the excellent characteristics of the automatic discrimination algorithm of the four constitutions.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.131-138
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to compare the health status of South Korea with those of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and examine the trends. Position vAlue for Relative Comparison (PARC) was used as a gauge for comparison, and five sectors of the health care system were measured: demand, supply, accessibility, quality, and cost. The Mann-Kendall test was used as a statistical analysis method to examine trend of PARC values obtained from 2000 to recent years. According to the results, the demand, supply, accessibility, and quality sectors were higher than the OECD average, while the cost was lower than the average. However, there is a recent trend of sharp increases in health care costs. Some indicators: health employment, quality of primary care and mental health care were lower than the OECD average, and health determinants showed a worsening trend. Therefore, policy-makers need to take this into account and make efforts for sustainable health care.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05b
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• pp.837-840
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• 2010

본 연구는 급변하는 의료환경에 대비하여 간호의 질 향상 및 증진을 통한 환자 만족도 증진을 위해 간호전달체계를 기능적 간호방법에서 팀간호제 방법으로 전환을 하면서 이에 따른 간호활동 및 직무 만족도를 조사하였다. 간접간호 수행률 조사를 살펴보면 기록간호, 확인업무, 물품관리, 간접소통, 전달 업무 등 모두에서 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 영양간호, 전적인 식사보조 등은 간호직무만족도가 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 간호사 직무만족도는 어려움이 있을 때 동료나 상사에게 의논하는 것으로 나타났다. 안전간호, 화재예방 등이 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 간호사 업무성과 병동의 시설과 기구를 적절히 관리한다. 간호사 업무성과, 환자에게 적절한 휴식 및 안정을 위한 간호를 제공하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과 간호사들이 역할을 명확히 규명하고 세분화하여 이를 수행하는 직무내용을 명확하게 파악하고 작업표준 지침서를 작성하여 활용한다면 간호사들의 자가 관리 증진은 물론 환자와 보호자에게도 만족감을 높여 줄 수 있는 계기가 될 것이며, 이를 통한 다양한 팀제 운영이 될 것이라 생각된다. 또한, 향후 다양한 업무 개선 활동이 가능할 것이라 생각된다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.9-19
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• 2010

Recently, Korea is constantly increasing its elderly care hospitals, and requires establishment of general evacuation plan considering old people's behavioral characteristics and physical states in emergency situations such as fire, and etc. In addition, because most of the facility users are patients under serious dementia and stroke, they feel difficulty evacuating by themselves, with differing evacuation time according to each walking status (bed, wheel chair, and various supplementary instruments), which is why it makes it difficult to have them all evacuate. This paper, in order to suggest data reference for designing on the basis of functionality, used various collected data utilizing Simulex to measure evacuation time through the model of elderly care hospital, a medical facility. During the study, several problems were found.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.197-203
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• 2014

In this paper, we develop an attachable head of bed(HOB) monitoring system, which can prevent ventilator associated pneumonia(VAP), and analyze the performance of the developed HOB monitoring system. The main purpose of the HOB monitoring system is to support visible HOB display for keeping patients' position effectively and collect data for analysis of the relation between HOB elevation and patients' symptom. The HOB monitoring system is developed in attached-type and uses an FIR filter with heuristic logic to remove the unwanted noise. The optical encoder is used for the performance analysis of the developed HOB monitoring system.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2009

대부분의 사람들은 의식하지 못하지만 세상은 오른손잡이 중심으로 이뤄져 있기 때문에 왼손잡이가 일상적으로 겪는 불편은 상상외로 많다. 우리가 일상에서 많이 사용하는 연장, 주방기구, 사무용품, 가전제품, 가구, 의류, 악기, 의료기기, 스포츠용품, 공공시설 등 이들 대부분이 오른손잡이에게 맞춰져 있어 왼손잡이들은 자신들의 왼팔을 비틀어서 사용하거나 주손이 아닌 오른손으로 부자연스런 자세로 사용할 수밖에 없다. 이에 따라 왼손잡이는 일상생활에 있어서의 상당한 불편을 느낄 뿐만 아니라 작업 능률의 저하, 재해나 상해를 입을 가능성이 높아질 수 있다. 본 연구는 무작위로 선정된 피설문자에 대한 설문 조사를 통하여 손잡이(handedness)와 관련된 통계수치를 제공하고 왼손잡이인 경우 왼손잡이로서 일상생활에서의 불편함, 작업능률의 저하여부, 오른손잡이 전용제품을 사용하여 상해를 입은 경험 등에 대해 조사하였다. 또한 왼손잡이도 편리하게 사용할 수 있으면 하는 제품이나 공공시설 등에 대한 이들의 주관적인 견해에 대해서도 조사하였다. 이를 토대로 왼손잡이를 위한 공구, 주방용품, 문구용품, 스포츠용품, 사무용품 등에 대하여 현재 적용되어 있는 상품에 대한 고찰과 향후 적용 가능 상품 및 공공시설에 대해 제안하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.554-560
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• 1999

In this paper, a vibration suppression method using an energy stored in winding inductance and an induced v voltage of the Linear Stepping Motor(LSM) is shown, and it is applied to a new one-phase excitation method A And a magnetic equivalent circuit is based on the structure of the LSM, and then the electric equivalent circuit of the LSM is derived by solving equations for the magnetic equivalent circuit. Several dynamic characteristics of the LSM are analyzed by the ACSL with the voltage equations, the force equations and the kinetic equation, a and are measured by experimental system.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.98-103
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• 2018

This study aims to evaluate the status of Korean healthcare among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and to monitor the trend of health care status since 2000. The position value for relative comparison (PARC) index was selected to gauge the level of healthcare status in demand, supply, accessibility, quality, and cost as per healthcare policy aspects. The Mann-Kendall test was conducted to allocate healthcare status of Korea since 2000. The PARC values indicate strength and weakness of Korean healthcare system by the mathematical comparisons. Korea positioned higher in demand, supply, accessibility, and quality. Yet, there are shortages in human resources and primary care. In conclusion, we suggest utilizing this study provides evidence to prioritize health care problems that can lead to establishing healthcare policy.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.217-224
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• 2021

The objective of this study is to investigate the healthcare status of South Korea and other member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) using OECD health statistics 2020. We employed the position value for relative comparison index to measure the healthcare status in five following components: demand, supply, accessibility, quality, and cost. The Mann-Kendall test was used to analyze for increasing or decreasing trend of the position value for relative comparison values from 2000 to the recent year. Results showed that Korea was positioned above than the OECD median values in most of components, but lower than the median values in certain indices including healthcare employment, primary care, and mental health care. This study sheds some light on healthcare issues to be improved and the policy-makes can take into account for prior setting process.