• 제목/요약/키워드: Data Literacy

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지역사회 재가노인의 인지기능과 관련요인 (Cognitive Function among the Elderly and Its Correlated Factors)

  • 민혜숙
    • 성인간호학회지
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.78-88
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    • 2007
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find out the degree of cognitive function among the elderly and to confirm its correlated factors. Methods: The subjects consisted of 392 elderly people over the age 65 who were living in Busan. Data were collected by the interview method, using a structured questionnaire and the K-MMSE scale. Results: The average points of the elderly's cognitive functions measured by K-MMSE were 23.76(${\pm}4.02$). With the cut-off point for cognitive impairment set as 24 points below using K-MMSE scale, 38.8% of the subjects have cognitive impairments. Among the variables related to cognitive functions, literacy showed the highest correlation with cognitive function(${\beta}=.330$, t=7.249, p<.001), followed in order by educational level, age, depression level, attendance of elderly's college, and religious activity. The total explanatory power of these variables is 36%. Conclusion: In order to prevent cognitive impairment among the elderly, elderly people have to maintain social relationships continuously, and expand the social network by participating in the related programs. Some efforts to prevent the occurrence of depression and to stimulate patients' brain activity need to be recommended.

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의료분야에서 인공지능 현황 및 의학교육의 방향 (Current Status and Future Direction of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medical Education)

  • 정진섭
    • 의학교육논단
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.99-114
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    • 2020
  • The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), including deep learning, has led to the development of technologies that may assist in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, prediction of disease risk and prognosis, health index monitoring, drug development, and healthcare management and administration. However, in order for AI technology to improve the quality of medical care, technical problems and the efficacy of algorithms should be evaluated in real clinical environments rather than the environment in which algorithms are developed. Further consideration should be given to whether these models can improve the quality of medical care and clinical outcomes of patients. In addition, the development of regulatory systems to secure the safety of AI medical technology, the ethical and legal issues related to the proliferation of AI technology, and the impacts on the relationship with patients also need to be addressed. Systematic training of healthcare personnel is needed to enable adaption to the rapid changes in the healthcare environment. An overall review and revision of undergraduate medical curriculum is required to enable extraction of significant information from rapidly expanding medical information, data science literacy, empathy/compassion for patients, and communication among various healthcare providers. Specialized postgraduate AI education programs for each medical specialty are needed to develop proper utilization of AI models in clinical practice.

Global Sex Differences in Cancer Mortality with Age and Country Specific Characteristics

  • Liu, Lee
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • 제17권7호
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    • pp.3469-3476
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    • 2016
  • Background: The cancer research literature suggests that women, especially premenopausal women, have lower cancer mortality rates than men. However, it is unclear if that is true for populations at all age levels in all countries and what factors affect such sex differences. This paper attempts to fill that gap. Materials and Methods: Sex- and country-specific cancer mortality data were statistically analyzed with particular attention to geographic, social, and economic factors that may affect the sex differences. Results: The sex differences were age and country specific, rather than universal. Premenopausal women actually tend to have a disadvantage compared to men or postmenopausal women. Male cancer mortality appears to be the affecting factor in explaining variations in sex differences. Latitude of residence and literacy rate are the affecting factors in cancer mortality and sex differences. African and Latin American countries tend to have a female disadvantage, while East Asian and Eastern European countries are more likely to have a female advantage. Conclusions: The findings challenge the cancer mortality literature and indicate that the sex differences and their possible causes are more complicated than the current literature suggests. They also highlight the urgency of adapting age- and country- specific health systems and policies to better meet the needs of younger women.

Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Economic Growth and Population Health in Malaysia

  • AFROZ, Rafia;MUHIBBULLAH, Md.;MORSHED, Mohammad Niaz
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제7권4호
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 2020
  • The paper aims to examine the association between information and communication technology (ICT), economic growth and population health based on health production model in Malaysia. This theoretical health production function is represented as follows: where the output is an individual health outcome, and the inputs are determinants of health, such as income, education, health care costs, medical facilities, the environment, and lifestyle. The development of information and communication technologies are represented as of mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100) and fixed telephone subscriptions (100) using time series data from 1993-2017 from the World Bank database. Using the bound testing technique of cointegration, this study finds that ICT affects population health significantly and positively in the long- and short-run. This is because ICT inclusion improves human health and longevity. Whereas, economic growth has no significant impact on the population's health both in the short- and long-run. The findings indicate that a weak global economy affects Malaysia's economic growth and reduces the health expenditure per capita. The results of this study suggest that policymakers must develop policies that improves public health by increasing health literacy, disseminating health information and facilitating medical facilities. This study also suggests that health care systems should to concentrate on digital inclusion.

융합시대 공학교양 교육개혁의 방향과 과제 (Direction for the Reform of Liberal Education in Engineering in an Era of Convergence)

  • 한경희;고동현;최문희
    • 공학교육연구
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.14-25
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    • 2016
  • This study deals with how liberal education in engineering could be positioned properly in an era of convergence. Disciplines of Engineering has long been focusing on engineer as a 'technical profession' and the liberal education as an accessory to major study has been left behind. Under this understanding, the topic of 'convergence' in the 21th century engineering is hardly to find its way to the establishment into engineering education. This study suggests a direction for the reform of liberal education in engineering, which is expected to overcome the distinction between professional and non-professional aligned with major education and liberal one. For the reform, introducing and developing contents and methodologies considering convergence would open the door of engineering education to interdisciplinary study and to 'open-profession'. Next, the problem solving model in education will be very effective for learners to define the problem, to utilize various knowledges and to lead to meaningful solution. Lastly, we emphasize the changing context of liberal education and it is necessary to integrate 'technology literacy' into liberal education in relation to major study.

정책인과지도 도출을 위한 인터넷 활용의 동태성 분석: 이용자로서의 정부, 기업, 가정을 중심으로 (A system Dynamics Approach to find the Dynamic interactions and Policy Causal Loops of the Internet utilization)

  • 하원규;최남희;김도훈;문태훈;김동환;홍민기
    • 한국시스템다이내믹스연구
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    • 제1권2호
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    • pp.149-174
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    • 2000
  • In recent years, how to promore the Utilization of Internet is a main issue of national information policy. In this study, we focused our approach to find promoting sttategies for Internet utilization on three sector's users, governments, enterprises, and households. Promoting the Internet utilization of these three sector's users is a very difficult problem, because their information levels are different and information gap among them can be regarded as bottleneck. And since the interactions between user's demands and diverse information seccor's factors are very complex, policy leverages can not find easily. By the system dynamics methodology, this paper examines the interrelationships between three user's demand mechanism and information policy sector. Information policy sector consist of four sectors, infrastruccure policy seccor, application-contents sector, governance sector, and access and price policy sector (free access policy, literacy policy, telecommunication price policy, etc.). To find and investigate policy leverage that will help understanding dynamic behavior of users in using Internet we build a causal loop diagrams and SD models by using survey data obtained from three sectors'specialized users, 488 persons.

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Factors Influencing Technology Adoption in Vietnam's Educational System

  • TRAN, Nga;LE, Thanh;NGUYEN, Lan;HOANG, Linh;NGUYEN, Thuy
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제7권10호
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    • pp.347-357
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    • 2020
  • This research aims to shed light on the technology adoption process and its drivers in the Vietnamese educational system. Research data was collected with an online questionnaire from more than 600 teachers in primary schools, secondary schools, high schools, colleges, and universities in Vietnam in 2020. Based on a holistic literature review, we develop a model of two extrinsic factors (global needs and school-infrastructure), and two intrinsic factors (teachers' technological literacy and their beliefs), which are correlated with the teachers' technological adoption. We measure the dependent variable by asking the teachers' ability and their efficacy to implement technology in teaching according to a Likert scale. With the support of SPSS_22 and STATA_2015, we find that over 70% of changes in technology adoption are explained by the changes in four independent variables and three control variables related to age, gender, and teaching-level of the teachers. Furthermore, these independent variables are significantly and positively associated with two dependent variables. However, a significant difference in technology integration ability can be seen among teachers' gender, age, and school-level. Specifically, male teachers seem to adopt technology at schools than female teachers better, and university teachers have the lowest level of technology adoption compared to other school-level teachers.

정보취약계층을 위한 공공도서관 서비스 강화 방안 연구 - 부산지역 공공도서관을 중심으로 - (A Study on the Public Library Service Agenda for the Core Information-Poor in Busan Metro Area)

  • 장덕현
    • 한국비블리아학회지
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    • 제23권3호
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    • pp.193-210
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    • 2012
  • 정보화의 진행과 함께 정보활용 역량이 낮은 '정보취약계층'에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있는데, 공공도서관은 정보이용과 접근이 상대적으로 어려운 사회적 취약계층의 정보화를 위한 정책과 문화적 경험의 확장을 위한 서비스 모두를 구현할 수 있는 매우 좋은 위치에 있다. 이러한 차원에서 본 연구에서는 부산지역을 중심으로 사회적 취약성으로 인해 주류사회에서 차단될 가능성이 높은 3대 지식정보취약계층을 대상으로 이루어지는 공공도서관 서비스의 현황과 활성화 방안에 대하여 살펴보았다. 구체적으로 이 연구는 부산지역을 대상으로 저소득가정, 장애인, 고령층 등 취약계층을 대상으로 이루어지고 있는 공공도서관 서비스의 현황을 조사하고 이들을 위한 서비스 강화 방안을 모색하고자 하였다.

The Development of Information Science in Ibero-America

  • Araujo, Carlos Alberto Avila
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • 제7권4호
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    • pp.6-19
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this article is to problematize the existence of a possible Ibero-American informational thinking. It was initially observed that a relative absence of Ibero-America in the international presentations and mappings of information science exists. Below, the reality of the 22 countries that compose Ibero-America is discussed, a region that can be understood from a sociocultural and geopolitical perspective. Then, a mapping of the information science research in these countries is made. The main research topics found are: epistemological studies, relationships with library science, information literacy, representation and organization, bibliometric studies, information management, user studies, technological dimensions, and relationships with archival science and museum studies. Finally, a general epistemological configuration of information science is presented at a global level, highlighting the great trends of study of information that marked the decades of the 1960s and 1970s (physical model), 1980s and 1990s (cognitive model), and the 21st century (sociocultural model), and which manifested themselves in the different subareas that make up the field. The most recent research in information science, in addition to addressing information transfer (physical dimension) and its relationship with data and knowledge (cognitive dimension), has also incorporated aspects related to the social effects of information, its role in the constitution of identities and culture, and the importance of its material conformations. Such expansion reflects attempts to address the complexity of informational phenomena. Therefore, it is concluded that it is important to place the specific contributions of Ibero-America in this context.

SNS의 사회적자본이 건강정보 활용수준에 미치는 구조적 영향력 (Structural Influence of SNS Social Capital on SNS Health Information Utilization Level)

  • 박재성;김경나
    • 보건의료산업학회지
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2020
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study was to test fitness of the structured model of SNS activities for health information. Methods : A structured questionnaire were administered to 500 subjects. A structural equation model was applied to collected data. Results : The response rate was 73.9%. The respondents mostly used Facebook and KakaoStory. They spent 70 minutes per day and 21~30% of this usage was taken by health information. In the variances, those who has religion more actively exchanged information about diseases and medical institutions. The goodness-of-fit of the model was .81(GFI) and .90(CFI). The main path was bridging capital -> bonding capital -> credibility -> SNS activities for health information. The path from quality of sharing information to SNS activities was not significant. It could be explained by the restriction of digital literacy. Conclusions : SNS activities for health information were determined by credibility, currency and bonding social capital. Bridging social capital, indirectly, influenced SNS activities through bonding social capital. Thus building bonding social capital would be a critical success factor for SNS.