• Health Policy and Management
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.23-45
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• 2003

This study was performed to evaluate economic effect of the water fluoridation program in Cheong-Ju City from 1982 to 2010. To study this economic effect, this study used cost-benefit analysis methodology from eight years old to fourteen years old in Cheong-Ju City. Major findings were as follows; First, total cost of fluoridation program in Cheong-Ju City was 1,384,164,734 korean won and total benefit was 15,057,426,621 Korean won from 1982 to 2010. Second, total cost which was converted by present value 2000 year was 1,687,412,718 won and total benefit which was converted by present value 2000 year was 14,582,548,519 Korean won. Cost-benefit ratio was 8.64. Net present value which happened from 1982 to 2000 was 7,990,710,155 Korean won and cost benefit ratio was 7.47. In conclusion, by the above result, economic impact of the water fluoridation program was very effective for children in some area of Cheong-Ju city.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.13-23
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• 2014

Background: A need arises to efficiently control health expenditure for medical aid due to a sharp increase in medical aid expenditure. This study experimently analyzes the impact of physician behavior on medical use for medical aid beneficiaries using supplier induced demand (SID) theory. Methods: This study looks into analyze SID effect using expenditure factor analysis of medical aid for the years between 2003 and 2010 in comparison with health insurance. Moreover, this study analyzes the existence and scale of SID using econometrics modeling with panel data on 16 cities and provinces's health expenditure data for medical aid from 2003 1/4 to 2010 4/4. Results: This study finds that the growth rate of visit days per capita and treatment amount per visit days for medical aid is higher than health insurance. Furthermore, the result of econometrics modeling analysis shows the existence of SID in general hospital, hospital, clinic, oriental clinic. Conclusion: In order to efficiently control expenditure for medical aid, it is required to reinforce macro polices such as the introduction of 'target management' and micro policies such as the strengthen of management on medical institutes in the perspective of suppliers as well as regulations of demanders.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.14-42
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• 1996

On rationale for government intervention is the failure of competition in the market. Health care markets are characterized by such unique aspects as information asymmetry, prevalence of insurance, and cost-increasing competition based on the adoption of costly medical technology. Therefore, government policy to guarantee a sufficient number of providers in markets may not lead to socially beneficisal outcomes such as higher quantity and lower price. This paper examines the unique nature of health services and its implications for competition, the evidence that competition may not reduce health care ex[enditures, and policy tools that government can use to encourage competition which contributes to supporting a sustainable health care system.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.125-136
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• 2008

Corruption of the bureaucratic society can cause the whole society to corrupt and it can also increase public expense gradually because of the civil society's distrust of the administration. Throughout experience of front-line firefighters, this study lets the entire firefighters take an interest in increasing integrity and make it the primary assignment of fire administration. It is the most important to find out the illogical systems and try to improve them in order to solve the increasingly secret and sophisticated forms of corruption completely. The purpose of this study is to show the ways to improve firefighters' integrity by analyzing and pointing out the main factor and the realities of corruption of firefighters.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.53-69
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• 2005

This study has two different objectives. First of all is to comparing results of size efficiency scoring on Public Corporation Medical Center(PCMC) by years of 1993, 1997 and 2003 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The second is to explore the relationship between revenue and PCMCs' efficiency score, and the relationship between expenses and the efficiency score in 2003. The average efficiency scores were significantly decreased by years of 1993, 1997 and 2003. The revenue per bed(revenue) in 2003 was smaller than the expenses per bed(expenses) in 2003, therefore PCMCs had deficits in 2003. The expenses was negatively related to the efficiency score. Therefore its means was that improving efficiency score decreased expenses. Contrarily, the revenue had any significant relation to the efficiency score. PCMC needs to various endeavors to improve their productivity and efficiency. One of the alternatives is reduce of work load through integration of PCMC and development of new performance index reflecting their situation and future direction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.136-139
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• 2010

우리나라 주소는 우편번호를 기준으로 한 주소체계, 법정동을 기준으로 한 주소체계, 행정동을 기준으로 한 주소체계, KT 에서 관리하는 KT 주소체계 등 주소관리가 통합되어 있지 않고, 각 기관, 기업별로 주소 관리를 별도로 하고 있다. 이에 따라 기관과 기업들간의 상이한 주소체계 관리문제로 인해 서로간의 주소체계의 의미가 일치하지 않는 문제가 발생하여 다양한 문제가 유발되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 주소 명칭에 대한 보다 자동화된 맵핑이 가능하도록 KT 주소, 우편번호주소, 행정동/법정동코드를 대상으로 온톨로지를 사용한 모델을 제안하였다. 제안된 모델은 주소정보간의 의미관계성을 유지하여 이기종 주소체계의 의미 불일치를 해결할 수 있으며, 보다 자동화된 데이터관리와 장기적인 비용절감이 가능하다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.18D no.5
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• pp.357-370
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• 2011

The study aims to examine the service preference between the NEIS(National Education Information Systems) and alternatives, based on the benefits, costs and risks of NEIS service for parents, and finally propose the vitalizations plans for that public services. As a part of public services, NEIS has not only provided the educational information for the students, which enables school parents to suffice for information need, and but also leaded in the parents' participation for the various educational policies. However, major NEIS users such as teachers and parents recently began to blame for the various data errors and connection failures of NEIS. Despite of the research importance, most of NEIS studies severely depended on TAM and researches investigating the preference of school parents for NEIS services rarely exist. The study classifies NEIS parents services into benefits, costs, and risks based on ANP BCR model, identifies the preference for the services, compares the NEIS services and alternatives, and provides the results of sensitivity analyses. The analyses identify that NEIS was not frequently used by school parents and that the service preference of the school parents was not considered yet. Consequently, the study stresses the acceptance vitalizations plans for NEIS.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.1-3
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• 2024

Currently, the issue of poor accessibility to essential medical services has been brought to light as a social discontent. In order to strengthen the essential medical service system, the government has announced the "the policy package related to essential medical service" as a comprehensive solution and has vowed to invest more than 10 trillion won by 2028. As it contains crucial elements for changing the framework of the healthcare system, I would like to present several points to consider in policy implementation. Given that this package contains important elements for changing the framework of the healthcare system, there are a few issues to consider in policy implementation. First, a mechanism to prevent politicization should be established when designing the physician training system. Second, changing from a hospital centered on residents to one centered on specialists means that the society bears the cost of training residents, while paying a high price for specialist services. The willingness of society to pay for the costs incurred by such a change should be carefully considered, and an appropriate budget must be prepared. Third, as the operation of shared human resources and inter-organizational networking, among other detailed policy measures, are still at a level of conceptual discussion, various issues should be solidly reviewed and considered for in the mid to long term to suit the conditions of the domestic healthcare system.

• Journal of Cadastre & Land InformatiX
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.237-250
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• 2017

This study focuses on the maintenance of the registration details of the cadastral study (drawings, chiefs) in relation to Uiwang city real estate administration information unification project by the data maintenance business. The purpose of this study is to provide high quality data and improve the efficiency of data maintenance business in the unification of real estate administration information together with the intellectual study diffusion maintenance model in the future. In this study, based on the results of the intellectual study data maintenance project and the effectiveness of institutional, temporal and cost aspects, it was able to show the effect of the data maintenance project. And analyzed the current situation, typed the error shown here, and developed the maintenance plan and maintenance result.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.281-290
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• 2019

This study analyzed the recognition types of the economic burden for cancer treatment and the characteristics of each recognition type by employing Q methodology. For this study, we determined the final 45 Q statements by conducting literature surveys, internet searches and in-depth interviews. The P samples are 35 people of cancer patients, their family members, and experts. The Q statements were classified according to the forced normal distribution method and the collected data was analyzed using the PC QUANL program. For the analysis results, we extracted four recognition types on the economic burden of cancer treatment, and we named them 'uncertain anxiety', 'acceptance by family burden', 'object to challenge with active response' and 'insurance preparation', depending on their characteristics. The results of this study can be used as a basis for preparing the clinical intervention plan and the policies for cancer patients and the families involved in the fields of medicine, nursing and social welfare.