• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.593-602
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• 2019

The healthcare industry, a high-value-added business, continues to grow with the aging of the population and the development of convergence medical technology. In particular, the medical tourism industry is being pushed by advanced countries. Korea is also actively supporting projects to attract international patients. However, there is a lack of prior research on Korea's medical interpreter policy. This study analyzes the current status and problems of medical interpreter policy for international patients, and presents the task. Problems include insufficient policy control towers, lack of links with local governments, lack of expertise of medical interpreters, poor quality of medical interpreting services, and poor treatment of medical interpreters. As improvement measures, it is proposed to establish a policy control tower, strengthen the link with local governments, switch to a medical interpreter system, diversify the language of medical interpreting qualification test, improve the quality of medical interpreting service, internalize the training process for medical interpreter, give preferential treatment to medical interpreters, utilize the nurse, and train multicultural medical personnel. I hope that this study will contribute to the development of the medical tourism industry.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.571-581
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• 2020

There are large, medium, and small items in the evaluation test for medical interpreter professionals personnel and the criteria and level are not clear, which may cause confusion for those preparing for the test. Therefore, we would like to suggest that the qualification requirements for the medical translation ability test and the criteria for the evaluation items are consistent with the medical system in Korea. The survey on the medical interpreter competency test conducted was collected from domestic and foreign data, compared with similar test and overseas test. We also examined the perception of the test by experts with experience in developing and interpreting the medical interpretation test. As a result, in the 'International Culture' evaluation category, 'Language-oriented culture' was changed to 'Medical-oriented culture' and 'Interpretation ethics' was changed to 'Medical interpretation ethics'. In the evaluation items of the hospital system, the 'Medical Dispute Mediation Act', which is 「ACT ON MEDIATION OF MEDICAL DISPUTES」 of the middle item was changed the 「ACT ON REMEDIES FOR INJURIES FROM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND MEDIATION OF MEDICAL DISPUTES」 and the Act also reduced the four items related to the 'Medical Tourism Law' to two and added the 「ACT ON SUPPORTING THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL OVERSEAS AND ATTRACTING FOREIGN PATIENTS」. If the Medical Interpretation Proficiency Test is prepared in accordance with the medical culture of Korea, it is expected that there will be a stable opportunity for professionals who pass the examination to act as experts.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.505-516
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to develop sign language interpreting content in the medical setting that facilitates Deaf people's access to medical services in situations where professional and accurate medical sign language interpreting is insufficient. To achieve the purpose of this study, we conducted a literature review, individual interviews for Deaf people, on-site requirement surveys of sign language interpreters and sign language experts, and medical and sign language expert consultations. Based on this, we developed sign language interpreting content such as main care contextual scenarios, basic medical terms, and medical term descriptions. Through this study, we developed medical sign language content considering the situation and medical importance of Deaf people to promote expertise in the medial sign language area and developed a responsive website of sign language medical dictionary that effectively and efficiently delivers information to Deaf people and sign language interpreters; we realized the need and importance of sign language translation for Deaf people to be the main bodies.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1517-1523
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• 2016

The global medical tourism industry including Asian market has been activating recently. That is as medical tourists are motivated to seek the higher quality of healthcare with lower costs, as well as of travel. The consumers in this field tend to need customized services of medical tourism. It is needed that the consumers get customized information on medical services and traveling, the clinics and hospitals resolve the issues of offering translation and luring medical tourists from overseas, and the guides, who offer tour and translation service, provide the consumers and the clinics with customized services so that they get the services needed for one another. This research studies the Offline to Online, called O2O, matching platform based on global clinics, which connects medical facilities, patients, and guides for traveling and language services. It presents the customized marketing plans by utilizing customers' experiences from medical services and traveling they use.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.391-397
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• 2014

This paper is concerned with medical tourism, which is expected to become the new growth engine of the 21st century. Medical tourism is a collaborative and synergistic composition of Healthcare and Tourism, and has led to a remarkable growth in 2012 since the year 2009, exhibiting huge growth potential. This paper reviews the emerging market of the medical tourism with five major hospitals in Korea from the perspective of medical tourists, and makes suggestions for the global health care and the sustainable development in Korean medical tourism as a growth market: the construction of websites for active services and transparent management of medical expenses with proper arrangement of medical consulting and advices, cooperation of the health care center and the medical tourism industry, and the activation of healthcare communication. For the smooth progress of medical tourism, this paper suggests two separate communication channels: one for the patient tourists and the other for the medical tourism coordinators. The former needs accuracy with professional knowledge on the healthcare and communication, which should be classified as medical interpreters working with disease-oriented medical tourists. The latter refers to international medical coordinators dedicated to the smooth progress of medical tourism and services. This paper also points out the creative efforts to improve the relatively poor infrastructure of tourism industry to accommodate the medical tourists, and improve the medical tourism industry.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.491-500
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to examine the health status of marriage immigrants and naturalized people, their health service utilization and barriers to that in an effort to seek ways of getting rid of their difficulties in health service utilization. The raw data of a 2012 Survey on the State of Multicultural Families were used, and a survey was conducted on 15,001 marriage immigrants and naturalized people from July 10 to July 31, 2012. As a result, the marriage immigrants and the naturalized people got a mean of 3.96 in subjective health status, which showed that they were in good health. The main medical institutions that they used in times of sickness were hospitals and clinics(82.7%). 39.1 percent of the respondents answered they had difficulties in using health service, and the most dominant difficulty they faced at that time was communication problems(52.0%), followed by high expense(28.9%). The respondents who answered they found it most difficult to use health service due to communication lagged behind the others in terms of Korean proficiency, and the respondents who cited expense as the biggest difficulty fell behind the others in terms of living standard. To make health service more accessible to marriage immigrants and naturalized people, the government should take measures to ensure their right of health. Specifically, how to relieve their financial burden should carefully be devised, and medical institutions should provide interpretation service to guarantee their easier health service utilization.

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.227-235
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• 1994

본 프로젝트는 1993년 6월부터 9월까지 태국의 International Community Maternal and Child Health Nursing Training Program에서 이루어진 것으로 17개국 참석자 중 8개국 참가자들이 태국의 권케지역(태국 북동부)중 한 농촌지역을 택해 1개월간의 가정방문과 Group Work을 통해 지역사회 진단후 진단내용을 근거로 사업계획을 시행한 것이다. 조사지역 -Ban Nang Loob Village-은 우리나라의 일차보건의료를 수행하는 가장 말단지역인 이(里)에 해당하며, 이 중 5세 미만의 영유아가 있는 어머니들을 조사대상으로 하였다. 조사가구는 75가구였으며, 자료수집도구는 일반적인 특성, 환경상태, 지역사회 조직, 모자보건에 대한 지식, 태도, 실천과 관련된 내용으로 총 52개 문항이었다. 자료수집은 면접과 관찰을 통해 이루어졌으며 면접은 통역을 위해 태국 권켄대학의 간호대학 교수들과 함께 시행하였다. 본인이 참석한 그룹에서는 모자보건사업 중 모성건강에 관한 조사만 이루어졌으므로 이 지면에 소개된 프로젝트는 모성건강문제에 국한된다. 본 조사에서는 3가지 모성 건강과 관련된 문제가 나타났는데 이를 문제의 정도, 심각성, 예방가능성, 지역사회의 관심정도로 점수화하여 총계를 낸 후, 가장 커다란 문제점으로 '모성의 임신과 산욕기 동안의 합병증에 대한 지식부족'이 제기되어 이를 기초로 Master Plan, Operational Plan, Time Frame, Budget이 제시되었다. 본 프로젝트에서 제시된 사업계획은 담당지역의 Health Center, 권켄 간호대학, 지역사회 주민조직의 협조로 지역주민의 모자보건사업 활성화를 위해 실제로 시행될 계획이다.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.443-451
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine the views of dental hygiene students about the possible countermeasure of domestic hospitals for the opening of the medical market. The subjects in this study were 269 dental hygiene sophomores, juniors and seniors at two different colleges in the region of Busan. The findings of the study were as follows: The opening of the medical market and views of possible countermove, whether they agreed to that or not made a statistically significant difference to their opinions on the necessity of customer-oriented marketing strategy(p=0.023), analysis of foreign medical markets/attempt to make inroads into the markets(p<0.000) and the improvement of the quality of medical services/the diversification of the services(p=0.025). As to an intention of going to a foreign hospital, they had a statistically significantly different intention about whether to go to a foreign hospital regardless of medical bills(p<0.000), whether to consult a doctor in a foreign hospital after going to a domestic hospital first (p<0.000), whether to consider the distance between their houses and a foreign hospital(p=0.05) and whether to take considerations on the assistance of an interpreter(p=0.023). In regard to preference for foreign hospitals, American hospitals ranked first(41.9), followed by Australian hospitals(19.9) and Canadian ones(14.2).

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.343-350
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• 2016

To prepare a method for improving the oral health-related quality of life for Chinese foreign students by examining the oral health care behavior affecting the oral health-related quality of life, a self-administered survey was conducted with 236 Chinese foreign students at an university located in Jeonbuk during April 2 -May 5, 2013. The results showed that 65.3% had not visited the dentist within one year, 82.6% had not received scaling within one year, and 68.2% had not received oral health education. In regards to the OHIP-14 according to the general characteristics, there was a significant difference in the school year, health insurance enrollment status and overseas study life satisfaction (p<0.05). In regards to the OHIP-14 according to the oral health care behavior, there was a significant difference in the subjective oral health condition, the experience of having visited a dentist within one year and an experience of having received scaling (p<0.05). As for the influencing factors on the oral health-related quality of life, they were found to be the subjective oral health condition and the experience of having received scaling within one year (p<0.05). For the purpose of helping Chinese foreign students to conveniently use medical institutions when oral health-related problems arise, there is a need for a translated version of the guidebook in their native language, the availability of medical professional interpreters, the availability of a university level oral health service center, and practical oral health education to enhance oral health.

• Korean Journal of Cleft Lip And Palate
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 2010

한국얼굴기형환자 후원회 의료봉사팀은 2010년 2월 6일에서 12일까지 라오스의 수도인 Vientiane을 방문하여 구순구개열 무료수술을 무사히 마쳤다. 의료봉사팀은 총 11명으로 구성되었다. 구강악안면외과의 6명과 간호사 2명, 학생 3명이었다. 수술은 라오스 비엔찬의 Mahosot 병원에서 수술장 한개에 수술 침대를 두개 놓고, 두팀을 구성하여 수술을 진행하였다. 당시 서울대학교 치과대학 예방치학교실 백대일 교수님께서 안식년을 맞아 라오스에서 라오스인 구강건강에 관한 national survey를 수행하고 계셨는데 수술팀에게 많은 도움을 주셨다. 2월 7일 토요일 예진 때는 한국국제협력단에서 파견한 국제협력의사 박병원 선생님(내과 전문의)께서 통역으로 도와 주셨다. 총 30명의 환자가(남:여=14:16) 수술을 받았으며, 환자들의 평균 나이는 9.7세였다. 수술 종류는 cheiloplasty, palatoplasty, rhinoplasty, scar revision, lip reconstruction로 구분 지을 수 있었으며, 모든 수술은 합병증 없이 마무리되었다. 이번 자선수술을 통해 30명의 환자를 수술하였고, 라오스 의사들에게 구순구개열 진료에 대한 기술을 교육할 수 있었다. 또 라오스 치과대학과 자매결연을 맺는 등 한국-라오스 우호증진에 많은 기여를 한바 이를 보고한다.