• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.281-308
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• 2022

This study aims to present directions for improving information services of medical libraries in small and medium-sized hospitals by exploring the information use behavior and information needs of nurses, medical technicians, and pharmacists who had not been studied. The research design was conducted based on the reviewing theoretical background studies, and in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with nurses, medical technicians, and pharmacists working in small and medium-sized hospitals. The results show their information needs, information use behavior, and perceptions of the medical library in the hospital. Based on these results, this study suggests ways to improve the information services provided by medical libraries in hospitals. This research is meaningful because it was first to explore the information use behavior and information needs of health care professionals working in small and medium-sized hospitals.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.9-17
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• 2012

본 연구는 미국 소재 T 대학교의 학생아파트를 대상으로 하여 창밖으로 보이는 외부 환경의 차이와 거주자의 환경조절 행태 사이의 관계를 분석하는 관찰연구로 진행되었다. 거주자와 거주환경간에 발생하는 부조화는 환경 스트레스의 한 원인이 된다. 이러한 환경 스트레스에 대한 대응 전략으로 거주자는 그들의 환경을 조정하곤 한다. 본 연구는 실내에서 식물을 키우거나 거주자의 취향에 따라 커튼을 교체하는 등의 환경조절 행태를 분석의 대상으로 한다. 창문과 현관 영역에서 발생하는 환경조절 행태의 정도를 비교 관찰하기 위해 군집형과 일자형으로 되어 있는 두 개의 배치 유형을 연구의 대상으로 선정하였다. 군집형 유형(cluster type: type A)은 상대적으로 도로에 가깝고 거실 창문의 조망이 다른 건물에 가로막혀 있으며, 일자형 유형(parallel type: type B)은 가로막고 있는 건물이 없어 자연경관을 거실 창문을 통해 조망할 수 있는 배치상의 두드러진 차이점이 있다. 관찰연구를 통해 군집형 유형에서 일자형 유형보다 더 높은 빈도로 식물 화분과 개별 커튼 등을 이용한 개인적 환경조절이 이루어진 흔적이 발견되었다. 이러한 결과는 창문을 통해 보이는 외부 경관의 특성이 거주자의 환경조절 행태에 미치는 영향의 정도를 암시하고 있다. 결론적으로 관찰연구에서 나타난 거주자의 환경조정 행태를 반영하여 디자인 고려사항을 제안하였다.

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.32 no.3 s.298
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• pp.215-224
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• 1994

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.143-166
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• 2006

It has been well known that women live longer but suffer more from degenerative diseases than men do, which, in turn, results in frequent utilization of medical care services among women. Previous studies, mostly based on Western society, have discussed that women, particularly married women, are more likely to utilize medical care services than men even after considerations of different health status and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Social interests in women's health and socialization process of caring for health among women are known as causes. This study examines sex differentials in the medical care service utilization in Korean society, particularly focusing on marital status. Feministic perspectives in Korea have argued that sex division of labor within family puts women in a position that has to continuously provide physical and emotional services to other family members, which keeps them from taking care of their own health. This study empirically tests if this feministic perspective holds true in Korea. Results show that Korean women and those with spouse are more likely to utilize medical care services than their men and the spouse-less counterparts, net of other risk factors. However the effect of existence of spouse on the medical care utilization is much smaller among women than men. These results suggest that the feministic perspective is in part applicable to explain sex differentials on medical care service utilization in Korea.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.190-204
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• 2010

This study firstly examined the socioeconomic and health factors associated with infiltration of private health insurance. Secondly, we compared health behavior, outpatient and inpatient use of private health insured with uninsured. The method of this study is that secondary analysis of the 2008 Korea National Health and Nutrition Survey was conducted for 7178 respondents aged 19 over. We use the logistic regression and t-test for data analysis. The first dependent variable was dichotomy which is divided to private health insured or uninsured and the second dependent variable was the presence and frequency of outpatient and inpatient use. The descriptive variables was gender, age, marital status, income, education, occupation, type of national health insurance, residential area, self confidence of health, prevalence rate of common disease, activity limitation, drinking and smoking status. The result of the major findings are as follows. First, 59 under aged person, married person, people in the higher brackets of income, national employee insured were more likely to infiltrate private health insurance. The poor self confidence of health, activity limitation, person with hypertension or allergic rhinitis and smoker were negatively related in infiltrating private health insurance. Second, private health insured did more preventive behavior such as self-paid health examination, cancer screening, regular exercise than uninsured. Third, private health insured was positively related with the presence of outpatient use and frequency of inpatient use

• 한국노년학
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.747-760
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to prepare basic data necessary for the development of services or systems that can enhance the accessibility of health and medical services or enhance the efficiency of health and medical use of senior citizens by identifying factors for predicting health and medical use behavior of senior citizens in Incheon Metropolitan City through the Korea health panel data(version 1.5). Through the structural equation model established through the SPSS and AMOS, it was confirmed that the predisposing factors, health behaviors and needs factors had significant direct and indirect effects on the use of health care services. Since the imbalance in demand and supply of health and medical services is more severe than in other regions, the results of this study can be used as basic data when checking whether the current health and medical system in Incheon Metropolitan City can operate effectively in an aged society and discussing how to provide health and medical services to the elderly in Incheon.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.194-204
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• 2021

This study was conducted to find out the status and factors of private health insurance subscriptions by life cycle and to identify differences in medical usage behavior by life cycle. Using the SPSS 26 program as the 12th-15th (2016-2019) data of the Korea Welfare Panel, the difference subscriptions was identified as Chi-square by demo social and health characteristics of 58,223 people, and the factors affecting subscription were analyzed by polynomial logistic analysis and average analysis was performed for medical use behavior. As a result of the analysis, the biggest factor in purchasing private health insurance was household income, private health insurance coverage is the highest in growth period, and multiple subscriptions were made depending on household income. In youth, household income, spouse, and no disability, and middle age, household income, economic activities, spouses, and health levels were largely influential factors. The rate of private health insurance coverage in old age was the lowest, and low-income households, poor health levels, and people with disabilities were lower. The increase in medical use by private health insurance subscribers also occurred during growth and youth. It is necessary to strengthen the national health insurance coverage, and the role of private health insurance to supplement it should be established in time for the life cycle to complement each other, eliminating blind spots of medical security and maximizing people's health and well-being.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.195-206
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• 2004

Objectives: This study was conducted to investigate the patterns of medical utilization and factors affecting medical utilization of population living in islands of province of ChungCheongNam-Do. Methods: Demographic and socioeconomic state, medical utilization of 447 persons were surveyed from Sept. 9th to Sept. 18th, 2002. Results: In elder age group and lower educational group, the rate of medical utilization was high. As subjective health states get lower, the group used medical institution more(p<0.05). The group having more number of chronic diseases showed more medical utilization. And the group who needs 2 to 3 hours to reach to the medical institution showed high medical utilization(p<0.05). The factors having negative effect on using medical institution were economic concern and lack of proper clinic in the neighborhood. Conclusions: The lower economic level and the insufficiency of medical facilities on islands affect the utilization rate negatively. More accessible and effective medical systems for these population are expected.

• 한국노년학
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.837-851
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• 2018

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between frailty and health care utilization in a cross-sectional design of a population-based sample of community-dwelling older adults. We used the data of 516 participants who dwell in Daejon, aged between 65 and 84 years old. Using K-frailty index, frailty status were measured and categorized as three groups: robust, prefrail, and frail. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine if frailty affects emergency department(ED) visit or hospitalization. In addition, negative binomial regression was used to examine the association between outpatient visits and frailty. Our results showed that the frail elderly increased the ED visit and the number of outpatient visit significantly after controlling for demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, the number of chronic diseases, and self-rated health status. Considering that frailty is an important independent factor affecting health care utilization, more attention is required to prevent the frailty in our health care system.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.326-330
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• 2009

본 연구는 일반 성인남성과 직업군인의 건강형태 및 의료이용에 대해서 2005년도 국민건강 영양조사의 자료를 질병관리본부로부터 획득하여 분석하였고 그 결과를 보면 전체조사 대상자는 8,384명으로 21세~55세의 일반성인남성과 직업군인만을 선정하였으며, 직업군인은 76명, 일반 성인 남자는 8,308명이었다. 보건의식 행태 분포에서 보면 현재 흡연상태는 일반인에 비해 직업군인이 높고, 주관적 체격인식은 일반인의 경우 비만 또는 매우 비만이라 인지하는 비율이 직업군인에 비하여 높게 나타났지만, 실제로 지난 1년간 체중조절 여부는 일반인이 오히려 직업군인에 비해 높게 나타났다. 또한 직업군인의 보건의식 행태는 평균 연령(p<0.05)에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 월간 침상와병일수는 직업군인이 상대적으로 높았으나 월간 결석, 결근일수는 오히려 낮게 나타났다. 더불어 월간 결석, 결근일수(p<0.05)는 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 나타났다. 연간 입원이용율은 일반인이 높았으며, 평균 재원일수, 건당 평균 입원기간은 일반인에 비해 직업군인이 길었다. 2주간 외래 이용율은 일반인이 17.2%, 직업군인이 21.6%로 직업 군인의 외래이용이 많았고, 평균 외래이용 횟수에서도 일반인이 1.92, 직업군인이 2.44로 직업군인이 많았다. 이용한 보건의료기관의 종류에서는 일반인은 의원급이, 직업군인은 병원급의 외래이용이 많았고 2주간 약국 이용율은 직업군인이 16.2%로 일반인 22.0% 에 비하여 낮았다. 연간 사고 및 중독 발생자율은 직업군인이 9.5로 일반인 7.9에 비하여 높게 나타 났으며, 사고 및 중독 발생횟수에서는 일반인이 직업군인에 비하여 높았다. 의도성별 분포(p<0.05), 주치료기관(p<0.05)은 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 본 연구를 통해 일반적 특성, 보건의식행태, 건강수준의 분석 및 일반적 특성을 보정한 상태에서 일반 성인남성과 직업군인의 보건의식 행태와 의료이용 분포를 비교 분석한 것으로 향후 직업군인의 건강 증진을 위한 효과적인 교육과 정책수립에 필요한 기초자료가 될 수 있을 것으로 기대해 본다.