• The Monthly Diabetes
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• s.151
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• pp.20-23
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• 2002

고혈압과 당뇨병은 성인에서 흔히 볼 수 있는 만성 질환으로서 특히 두 가지 질환을 함께 가지고 있는 경우가 많다. 고혈압과 당뇨병은 둘 다 심장질환, 뇌혈관질환, 신장질환 및 망막질환의 위험 인자로서 조기에 합병증을 발생시켜 유병률과 사망률을 증가시킨다. 통계에 의하면 당뇨병을 가지고 있는 사람은 없는 사람에 비해서 두 배 이상 고혈압이 발생하고 당뇨병 환자의 1/3에서 결국 고혈압이 발생하는데 특히 50세 이전에는 여자보다 남자에서 많이 발생하며, 50세 이후에는 남자보다 여자에서 많이 발생한다. 또한 백인에서 보다 흑인에서 두 가지 병을 가지고 있는 경우가 두 배 이상 많으며 경제적으로 빈곤할 수록 많이 발생한다고 한다. 당뇨병 환자에서는 고혈압이 유병률이나 사망률을 증가시키는 가장 중요한 요인인데 그 이유는 고혈압의 합병증, 즉 관동맥질환, 뇌졸중, 말초혈관질환, 신장질환 등의 발생과 성인 시력장애의 가장 흔한 원인으로 인정되고 있기 때문이다. 또한 당뇨병 환자에서도 고혈압 발생이 두 배로 많은데 당뇨병의 유형 및 기간, 신장질환 유무, 연령, 성별 및 인종에 따라 관련이 있다고 한다. 두 가지 질병이 다 같이 유사한 합병증을 일으켜 표적 장기에 손상을 주므로 두 질환을 가지고 있으면 이러한 합병증의 발병을 더욱 앞당기게 된다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.54
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• pp.295-319
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• 2003

The study starts from the critical thought on why most of female-headed single-parent families are under poverty regardless of their hard working. The study is to explore the lives of low-income single-parent families as working poor and to develop comprehensive policies for them out of poverty and other social vulnerability, using the concept of social exclusion which has been broadly introduced in the field of social science. Specifically, the study aims to analyse the process of social exclusion of low-income single-parent households, by comparing the differential lives in the economic, social, political aspects among male-headed dual-parent household, female-headed single-parent household, and poor female-headed lone-parent household who is under the public poverty line. The study was based on the secondary data analysis. A total of 3182 samples(the first 2508, the second 235, and the third 439) were included. Using SAS 6.12, frequency, chi-square, means, and ANOVA were utilized for the statistical analysis. Results show that single mothers, on the whole, are vulnerable population in terms of employment, housing stability and income. Also, low-income households of single mothers are more negatively affected by the IMF economic crisis and carry more pessimism on their future. In comparison with male-headed households, single mothers have fewer support from social insurance as well as family resources and higher burdens of additional caring need for the old, the disabled, and the chronically ill. These findings identify the reality in which female-headed households with dependent children are exposed to the overall social vulnerability and thus are easily trapped into the social disadvantaged. finally, the study suggests the development of comprehensive policies and counter-measurements for low-income female-headed families to be the primary member in our society.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.259-285
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• 2014

Public policies in regard to developing reading culture programs and the contents, and in running public libraries have been used to overcome existing social issues such as regional self-centeredness and cultural lagging. It means that public libraries are playing an important role to encourage communications within local communities. The purpose of this research is therefore to analyze the concept of local community, and develop reading culture and contents to reinforce the concept. This research also targeted to analyze the required contents in reading culture. Through the case study of "G" city, the research analyzed their citizenship and sense of local community and the requests. As a result, the requited subjects were for economics, unemployment, poverty, aging, and housing order. For the subjects of environment were environment pollution and energy order. For the subjects of human rights, disabilities, and multi-cultural were requested. For the subject of education, school violence, tutoring, and truly teaching were requested. Based on the requirements, 221 items of reading lists, DVD clips, and abstracts are developed as well as 4 programs of reading culture.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.103-118
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• 2010

This study used qualitative data to examine how low-income families confront the child care needs of their children in the midst of changes in public policy. The data were drawn from in-home interviews conducted every 6 months with 22 mothers who were welfare-dependent at the start of the research. This research depicted several life stories of the circumstances of poor children that have not had much previous attention in the literature: the general flows and the special conditions of child care among the low-income families with or without a disabled child were reported. The results in this study suggested that enabling families, through both social support and public funding, find affordable and quality child care would be one pathway to foster self-sufficiency in these families.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.241-265
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• 2010

This study reviewed the present state and differences of rehabilitation programs of the gambling addiction by comparing with other psychiatric disorder(including psychotic disability and alcohol addiction). This study also intended to suggest necessities, meanings and inherent fields of the rehabilitation in gambling addiction. First of all, the government and a few gambling industries run clinic centers for gamblers and their families, but have been lacked rehabilitation services for social comeback and adaptation or devaluated rehabilitation services than therapies. Gambling addict didn't have impairments of the cognitive function and their daily abilities was better than any other psychiatric disorders. But Damage of social role or function of gambling addiction was severe. And it is caused by nonadaptive nature of gambling behavior, personality/emotional change through gambling addiction process, and previous personality problem etc. There are many severe failure of social role and its attendant bankrupcy, family's problems and social poverty in gambling addiction, Therefore, important fields in the rehabilitation of gambling addiction should be services for basic social comeback support service, credit recovery support, monetary management, support of rehabilitation of family and vocational rehabilitation. Finally, the significance and critical points of the current study has been discussed as well.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.88-91
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• 2006

Land Use Information is the key of the rational decision in urban and regional planning. Although the local and central governments have data related to land use, urban and regional planners can gather the land use information in difficulty. For use the data which the governments have made, they should formally show their needs and applications, On this background, this study try to show the demands of such information for urban planning using questionnaire. Analyzing the result, it can present the hardness of gathering land use information, the high demands, and the needs of the each data field.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2000

이 프로젝트는 미국의 소수민족학생들의 과학과 수학의 수행능력과 흥미를 갖도록 혁신적인 교육전략을 개발하기 위한 준 실험설계연구이다. 연구대상은 중학교 7학년과 8학년 학생으로, 과학과 수학에 흥미가 있고 성적이 우수하며, 신체적으로나 기능적으로 장애가 있고, 소수민족이고, 경제적으로 빈곤한 계층이며 여학생을 우선조건으로 실험집단 52명, 비교집단 28명이 무선표집되었다. 연구대상 대부분(72명)이 흑인이고, 나머지(8명)는 히스파니아인이다. 연구내용은 1) 방과후 학술활동 2) 사회적 기술활동 3) 현장학습 4) 가족지원 프로그램을 실험집단에 실시한 후 실험집단과 비교집단의 학업성취도와 실험집단의 자아개념과 프로젝트 활동에 대한 평가를 분석한 것이며, 다음과 같은 연구결과를 얻었다. 1. 학업성취에 있어서 실험집단의 과학성적(CRT)이 통계적으로 비교집단보다 유의한 증가를 보였고, 프로젝트의 목표를 초과달성하였다. 비교집단도 자연적 성숙효과로 증가를 보였으나 유의도는 실험집단보다 낮았다. 2. 학생들의 프로젝트에 대한 평가는 긍정적이었다. 프로젝트 목적과 명확성, 현장학습의 적절성, 게임이나 학술활동보다 현장학습의 선호, 특히 자아존중감 활동이 많은 도움이 되었다고 보고하였다. 3. 실험집단의 자아개념은 프로젝트 기간동안 통계적으로 유의한 증가를 보였으나 학업 성취와의 상관관계는 유의하지 않았다. 이상의 연구결과를 토대로 이 프로젝트의 한국적 상황의 적용에 대한 시사점을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.271-295
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• 2018

Information inequality has been differently conceptualized and defined in national laws. While the information inequality increases, library policy and informational service has lagged behind in meeting the needs of the society and the state. This paper aims to provide a preliminary research on information inequality, in terms of conceptualization, the legal base, terminology, index development based on the level of digital information. The paper also highlights cases on library services for solution of the difference. It compares library services designed for the disabled, ethnic minorities and the aged. The paper reviews the existing literature and project data. As a result, there are a number of processes and tasks that needs to be developed, including policy development, supporting organization, human capital, cooperating network, supporting facilities and service, and data.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.117-131
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• 2014

This study aims to explore the reexperience of trauma caused by experience of discrimination and stigma from South Korean. For this purpose of this study, focus group interview methods are used. The participants are five women who escaped from North Korea and they were from 20s to 50s. From the outcomes of this study, I find out that they had experienced to put in prison, to let arrest to let human traffic, and sexual or physical assault. Now they have PTSD(Post Trauma Stress Symptom) of nightmare related with past trauma, avoidance of interpersonal relationships and similar situations, and retrospection and memorization of negative experiences. In that situation, they also have experienced discrimination caused by lack of understanding of their suffering in South Korea. And almost of them suffer from poor situation economically and physically. Participants regret their entry to South Korea and perceive that their hope has gone. And they have anger of Korean's discrimination and stigma and they feel suicide impulse after experiencing very difficult situation. These negative experiences affect their PTSD and make reemergence of trauma experience. In conclusion, the outcomes of this study are discussed and I proposed the practical suggestions which have affected decreasing the PTSD.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.53
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• pp.129-153
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• 2003

This study examines the socio-economic impacts of recent welfare reform in the United States. Based on the neo-conservative critique to the traditional public assistance system for low-income families, the 1996 welfare reform has given greater emphases on reducing welfare dependency and increasing work effort and self-sufficiency among welfare recipients. In particular, the welfare reform legislation instituted 60-month lifetime limits on cash assistance, expanded mandatory work requirements, and placed financial penalties for noncompliance. With the well-timed economic boom in the second half of the 1990s, the welfare reform seems to achieve considerable progress; welfare caseload has declined sharply to reach less than 50% of its 1994 peak, single mothers' labor force participation has increased substantially, and child poverty has decreased. In spite of these good signals, the welfare reform also has several potential problems. Many welfare leavers participate in the labor market, but not all (or most) of them. The economic well being of working welfare leavers did not increased significantly, because earnings increase was canceled out by parallel decrease in welfare benefits. Furthermore, most of working welfare leavers are employed in jobs with poor employment stability and low wages, making them highly vulnerable to frequent layoff, long-time joblessness, persistent poverty, and welfare recidivism. Another serious problem of the welfare reform is that a substantial number of welfare recipients are faced with extreme difficulties in finding jobs, because they have severe barriers to employment. The new welfare system with 5-year time limit can severely threaten the livelihoods of these people. The welfare reform presupposes that welfare recipients can achieve self-reliance by increasing their labor market activities. However, empirical evidences suggest that many people are unable to respond to the new, work-oriented welfare strategy. It may be a very difficult task to achieve both objectives of the welfare reform((1) providing adequate income security for low-income families and (2) promoting self-sufficiency) at the same time, because sometimes they are conflicting each other. With this in mind, a possible solution can be to distinguish welfare recipients into "(Very)-Hard-to-Employ" group and "(Relatively)-Ready-to-Work" group, based on elaborate examinations of a wide range of personal conditions. For the former group, the primary objective of welfare policies should be the first one(providing income security). For the "Ready-to-Work" group, follow-up services to promote job retention and advancement, as well as skill-training and job-search services, are very important. The U. S. experiences of the welfare reform provide some useful implications for newly developing Korean public assistance policies for the able-bodied low-income population.