• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.411-419
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• 2016

This study tried to find the relationship between household income level and medical expense to household income ratio. For data analysis, it used 2010 and 2011 yearly data beta version of Korea Health Panel, co-managed by Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and National Health Insurance Corporation. To find out how the effect of independent variable changes in 2010 and 2011, the interaction effect between year and independent variable was examined, and separating the factors that showed interaction effect into each year, linear regression analysis was conducted using generalized estimating equations method. As a result of reviewing the factors that were related to medical expense to household income ratio among the people who used medical services, it was found that the higher the household income level, the lower the medical expense. It indicates that policy measures are needed to lessen the medical burden of low-income families.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.99 no.6
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• pp.785-790
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• 2010

The paper aims to estimate the external effects of mountaineering on medical expenses within national economy. Though there is no difference in the participation ratio of mountaineering among sexes or income levels, the ratio of the elderly is higher than that of younger. The medical expenses have negative correlation with mountain climbing times and climbing frequencies, but this correlation is insignificant statistically. Without mountaineering, the medical expenses of Korea would increase by 2.8 trillion Won (4.6%). Therefore the policy to support usual mountaineering must save the medical expenses more than other policies. and the increase of public expenditure on mountaineering can decrease the deficit of government budget through the positive external effects on national medical expenses.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2018

This study aims to analyze the regional patterns of user-provider in medical services for spatial improvement of national health care delivery system in south Korea. By using the National Health Insurance Service National Sample Cohort DB, the characteristics and changes in the medical service cases served outside of residing regions are found. In 2013 the rate of the cases served outside of residing regions was declined slightly and users of medical institutions outside of their residing area tended to have high income level relatively and to visit hospitals than clinics. And departments visited have changed from 2002.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.156-163
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• 2013

최근 건강에 대한 관심이 늘면서 의료 환경도 진료 중심 의료에서 예방 중심 의료로, 질병관리 중심에서 건강관리 중심으로 패러다임이 바뀌고 있다. 또한 국민 경제에서 의료비 비중은 점차 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 이러한 이유로 자신의 라이프 스타일 및 건강을 직접 관리하려는 인구가 증가하고 있다. 이를 IT 기술에 접목하여 가정 내에서 질병관리뿐만 아니라 병원 간의 연결을 통한 원격진료 서비스 제공 등을 목표로 하는 웨어러블 헬스케어 분야 동향을 살펴보고 이에 대응하기 위한 DSP 설계 동향에 대해서 살펴보겠다.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.355-360
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine unmet dental care needs and related factors among adults in Korea. The study included a nationally representative sample of Koreans (Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2104). The dependent variable was unmet dental care need and the independent variables were socioeconomic status and oral health status. The chi-square test and logistic regression analysis were performed to identify the associations between explanatory variables and unmet dental care needs. The major causes of unmet dental care needs included economic burden, work life, and academic reasons; in addition, dental treatment was considered to have lower priority. The factors that had statistically significant relationships with unmet dental care needs were sex, age, self-rated oral health status, and difficulty in mastication. The findings of the study, suggest a need for lower dental insurance copayments in keeping with the policies and principles aimed at strengthening the national health insurance system. In addition, groups with limited access to dental services should be identified, and effective health care policies and services should be established for these individuals.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1173-1175
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• 2011

국내의 인구는 고령화와 함께 의료비 지출이 늘어나는 것은 혈압이나 당뇨와 같은 만성질환자 환자 비중이 높아졌기 때문이며 의료비의 절감 및 건강관리 향상을 위하여 본 연구에서는 스마트폰 점유율이 높은 안드로이드 OS를 기반으로 하여 건강관리 콘텐츠를 제공 하는 앱을 설계 하였다. 설계한 앱은 혈압계, 심전도 기기, 혈당계, 전자청진기 등을 이용하여 사용자가 자신의 건강상태를 안드로이드 기기에 전달하여 서버에 저장 하는 구동절차를 가지고 있으며, 서버에서는 LOG 정보를 이용하여 사용자가 원하는 서비스 요청을 통하여 사용자에게 맞는 건강관리 콘텐츠를 전달한다.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.105
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• pp.27-29
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• 2006

레이저 광선이 가져다준 많은 장점과 편리함에 비하면 레이저의 위험성이라는 부정적인 요소가 차지하는 비중은 미미하다고 볼 수 있다. 그러나 우려되는 것은 레이저를 생산하거나 이용하는 공장의 작업장을 비롯하여, 수술 또는 치료용으로 사용하는 의료기관의 수가 지속적으로 늘어나고 있음을 감안할 때, 이러한 장소에서 레이저를 동작시키는 사용자를 포함한 주변사람이 레이저광선에 직접 또는 간접적으로 노출되어 사고를 당할 확률도 그만큼 높아지고 있다는 점이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1210-1215
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• 2009

The domestic medical device industry compared by advanced nations continues a quick growth, also the level of technique is gradually improving. However, the high import percentage, low investment, shortage of professional manpower and etc. are remained as weaknesses in the competitive circumstance. In this paper I researched world medical device market and industry, and tried to find the development plan of the domestic medical device. The approach could be in mid-long term rather than short-term, The institutional improvement and support of the government, the production complex, the market segmentation and overseas marketing reinforcement and etc. are necessary for export expansion plan.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.5-35
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• 2004

This research is about the change of the occupation and the income of the subscriber of the medical expenditure due to the economic influence on them. The data of this study are based on 4,215 of medical cost payers among respondents of the survey on "Health and Retirement", which was the fourth additional research of Korea Labor and Income Panel Survey. The main findings of this study are as follows: First, the average medical cost is 5.5% of the income. The ratio of the medical cost to an earned income is highly different between low-income group and high income group. For the low income group, the medical cost reaches up to 1/3 of the total family income. That proves that the medical cost si a heavy burden on them. The group with the high medical expenditure seems to be supported by their own private property and other family members whenever it is needed. But it doesn't show the exact sources of the property, which includes the fund from the interests and real estates. On the other hand, only 14.4% of the subscribers changed their job status on the 5th year, and 85.6% of those kept their job status until the 5th year from the 4th year. This shows that the amount of the medical cost could be the important factor for them to change their job; for example, it is crucial whether the medical expenditure is over the average rate or not. Furthermore, the change of the occupation caused by the medical cost has the negative influence on the gross income. It makes the economic conditions of the family get worse. Therefore, the health insurance in Korea is lack of the compensational function, which substitutes the family income reduced by the change of the job status due to the high medical cost.

• 한국노년학
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.705-723
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• 2018

In this study we review the selected articles on elderly health and medical care published in the Journal of the Korea Gerontological Society (JKGS) in the last 40 years, and make suggestions for future research directions for gerontological health and medical care issues. Of all the 40 year publications from volume 1 (1980) to 38 (2017), we first examined the 30th anniversary review on the subject of gerontological nursing care and healthcare policies published in JKGS from 1980 (vol. 1, No. 1) to 2008 (vol. 28, No. 2), and reviewed recent 237 researches of this decade (out of all 655 articles from 2008, vol. 28, No. 3 to 2017, vol. 38, No. 4). We could find the following trends. Firstly, the analysis of the primary authors in the past 10 years revealed that those in public health, nursing and other health-related including physical education areas have dealt the subjects focusing on physical health while those in social welfare mostly on mental health. That is, physical health has been the prime subject of researches in the health and medical care area. Secondly, in the same period quantitative researches were accounted for 89.9%, which is similar to the trend of the first 30 years 81.5 %. On the other hand, qualitative studies were only 11 cases and the focus group interview were the most frequently used method comprising 33.3% among them. Thirdly, the non-experimental researches in the past 10 years comprise 65.4%, which was 82.7% in 1980 2008 period, indicating the increasing trend in experimental researches to deal with the issues in medical and healthcare fields. Lastly, the subjects of the researches were mostly the elders who are healthy, residents of city areas, or home dwellers, and 60% of them were over 65 years old in the past 10 years while the proportion was 42.7% in the previous review period. 81.6 % of the researches in the past 10 years was dealing both genders, slightly decreased trend compared to 88.5% of the previous review period. This study reveals that the researches in non-experimental physical health remains the main stream of JKGS despite the efforts by some researchers to diversify the methods and subjects. Systematic and in-depth researches employing multidisciplinary, qualitative, longitudinal and meta-analytical approaches are called for to guide the gerontolgical health issues with preventive and proactive perspectives.