• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제65권2호
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• pp.173-179
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• 2022

Disabilities can emerge due to traumatic spinal fractures. In terms of sacrococcygeal spine, because of its unique anatomic structure with minimal movement, the possibility for it to have a disability is relatively low. In Korea, unlike most disability criteria, private insurance companies acknowledge angular deformities caused by vertebral fractures as disabilities according to their degree, so there were several cases where patients required compensation, arguing angular deformity caused by sacrococcygeal fracture, which in some cases led to legal conflicts. Except the Act Welfare of Persons with Disabilities which recognizes only severe angular deformity affecting internal organs as disability and the industrial accident disability evaluation which does not recognize coccygeal fracture as disability but rarely recognizes sacral vertebra deformity equivalent to compressive deformation, there is little or no case where angular deformity is recognized as disability. Given the impairment evaluation standards in social insurance, McBride system, American Medical Association (AMA) guides, and newly proposed standards by the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences (KAMS), the most contentious point in the general terms and conditions of private insurance is spinal deformity. To overcome controversy over disability evaluation, the private insurance sector is now applying criteria for axial skeleton to sacrococcygeal vertebrae through revision of standards. Under these circumstances, it is fair to recognize sacrococcygeal fracture as impairment in terms of the pelvis only when the fracture leaves serious deformity and neurological symptoms with clear relevancy. Though it may not be easy to develop accurate disability evaluation standards, improvement is necessary to remove any irrationalities and make the standards as objective as possible.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.597-618
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• 2010

This paper discusses American disability theater's representations of disability identity and disability identity politics. Dramatists John Belluso and Lynn Manning, among others, present characters with disabilities who experience oppressions at multiple, interlocking levels of domination on the basis of disability, race, and ethnicity. In Manning's Shoot, the black, blind hero iterates episodes in which he experienced discrimination and insults in encounters with whites who used derogatory racist words or belittled him and with some school children who taunted him for just being blind. This play, as in Manning's solo performance, Weights, presents narratives of a blind person traversing multiple locations of oppression in "a long litany of losses" in a white-dominated and ableist society. Belluso's Gretty Good Time similarly weaves together stories of disabled women, Gretty and Hideko, who bond together to resist the dominant ideology that reduces them into titillating commodities of mass consumption. Hideko's story serves the two-fold function of both affirming the specificity of her individual experience as an ethnic other and espousing the communal experience of stigmatization she shares with other disabled women like Gretty. In these plays, the intersection of the identity categories of disability, race, and ethnicity highlights the diversity of the body and the fluidity of boundaries, foregounding the specificity of disabled bodies, while at the same time overthrowing the hierarchical binarism between disabled and "normal" bodies.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.172-180
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• 2014

Background: People with disabilities have higher prevalence rates and earlier onset of chronic disease than the non-disabled; therefore, their participation in health screening is important. This study evaluates the participation rate and trends in health screening of people with disabilities, and examines the association between their participation rate and disability characteristics, and socioeconomic status. Methods: Data on disability-related characteristics were collected from the National Disability Registry, and participants' corresponding health examination data were taken from the Korean National Health Insurance Corporation between 2002 and 2011. A total of 873,819 participants aged ${\geq}20$ years were analyzed in this study. Results: The rate of participation of people with disabilities in health screening has increased each year, but their participation rate is lower than that of the total population. The participation rate was lower in females than in males; the elderly group than in the younger group; those who live in city areas than rural areas; self-employed for health insurance than employees; those with an internal organ disability than those with an external physical disability; those with a severe disability than those with a mild disability; and those with a short-term disability than for those with a long-term disability. Conclusion: The factors associated with participation rate are age, sex, socioeconomic status, and disability characteristics. These findings indicate that health check-ups of people with disabilities should be promoted using an approach that takes into account the large individual differences in socioeconomic status and disability characteristics in this population.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.539-547
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• 2015

본 논문은 초 중 고등학생을 대상으로 융합적 장애인식 교육 설계를 도출한 연구이다. 연구를 위해 J시 소재 초 중 고등학생 각 100명씩 편의표본을 추출하였다. 장애인식 교육은 장애체험, 이론교육 형태가 년 1회 빈도로 진행되고 있었다. 장애인식 집단 차이분석에서는 여학생, 학교 유형이 낮은 단계, 통합교육 경험에 따라 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 있었다. 장애인식 교육 참여 집단은 장애편견, 관심과 배려, 장애친구 수용에서 미참여 집단보다 평균이 높게 나타났다. 장애인식 교육과 장애인식 간의 관계에서는 장애편견, 장애친구 수용에 영향을 미쳤다. 분석 결과를 바탕으로 생애주기를 반영한 장애인식 교육의 연속성 확보와 융합적 교육 방법 적용, 교육 효과성 검증 매뉴얼 개발 필요성 등의 시사점을 제시하였다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.33-51
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• 2007

The disabled population is a vulnerable group, having very complex medical conditions, but little is known about differences in the level of access by type of disability. This study was performed to investigate the differences of health care utilization by the type of disability. The database was constructed from registry of the disabled and health insurance and medical aid claims data submitted to the Korea Health Insurance Cooperation during in the year 2003. The disability classified three groups according to the Disabled Welfare Act; physically disability with external dysfunction, physically disability with organic disease, and mentally disability. There were huge differences in health care utilization by the type of disability. For the inpatient care, those with a mental disability were more likely to utilize health care services in terms of average visit number of medical facilities and visit days per case, but the treatment amount per case was the highest in physically disabled with organic disease. For the outpatient care, those who the physically disabled with organic disease were more likely to utilize health care services in terms of average visit number of medical facilities, treatment amount per case, and the treatment days per case. Also, those who physically disabled with organic disease were more likely to utilize general hospital for both inpatient and outpatient care, and spent more out-of-pocket expenditure. As the number of persons with disabilities rises, the need to consider new approaches to protecting their health grows increasingly. Especially, Korean health care system should be refined to be more responsive to the needs of the type of disability.

• 한국인구학
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.147-173
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• 2003

정보기술은 장애인에게 많은 영향을 미치고 있는데, 장애인은 하나의 집단으로 묶기에는 너무나 다양한 특성을 지닌다. 털 연구는 장애의 유형과 정도에 따라 정보 접근성에 상당한 차이가 있음을 분석함으로써 장애인 집단 내부의 정보 접근성 격차를 확인하고자 하였다. 분석 결과 장애 유형별 정보 접근성 수준은 지체장애, 신장장애가 높은 편이고 정신장애, 언어장애가 낮은 편으로 나타났으며, 국가간 차이가 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 장애 정도에 따라 정보 접근성 수준이 크게 달라져서 장애 유형뿐만 아니라 장애 정도도 매우 중요한 변수임이 확인되었다. 그런데 장애 정도와 정보 접근성 수준의 관계는 여러 장애 유형에서 비선형관계로 나타나 장애정도가 심할수록 정보 접근성이 낮을 것이라는 가설이 기각되었다. 또한 이는 장애 유형으로만 정보 접근성을 측정할 경우 장애의 설명력이 축소될 수 있음을 의미한다. 이러한 결과를 토대로 '장애의 정보 접근성 점수'를 산출하였는데, 중도의 신장장애가 43.0%로 29점, 중등도 정신장애가 0.5%로 1점으로 나타났다. 특히 신체 장애인보다 정신 장애인의 정보 접근성 수준이 낮은것으로 분석되어 정신 장애인을 위한 정책이 절실함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.211-218
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• 2012

Objectives: The objective of this study was to identify the differences in obesity rates among people with and without disabilities, and evaluate the relationship between obesity rates and the existence of disabilities or characteristics of disabilities. Methods: Mass screening data from 2008 from the National Disability Registry and National Health Insurance (NHI) are used. For analysis, we classified physical disability into three subtypes: upper limb disability, lower limb disability, and spinal cord injury. For a control group, we extracted people without disabilities by each subtype. To adjust for the participation rate in the NHI mass screening, we calculated and adopted the weight stratified by sex, age, and grade of disability. Differences in obesity rates between people with and without disabilities were examined by a chi-squared test. In addition, the effect of the existence of disabilities and grade of disabilities on obesity was examined by multiple logistic regression analysis. Results: People with disabilities were found to have a higher obesity rate than those without disabilities. The obesity rates were 35.2% and 35.0% (people with disabilities vs. without disabilities) in the upper limb disability, 44.5% and 34.8% in the lower limb disability, 43.4% and 34.6% in the spinal cord injury. The odds for existence of physical disability and grade of disability are higher than the nondisabilities. Conclusions: These results show that people with physical disability have a higher vulnerability to obesity.

• 사회복지연구
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.39-63
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• 2010

본 연구는 영국에서 태동한 장애에 대한 사회적모델과 미국에서 발현된 자립생활모델을 이론적으로 비교함으로써 각 모델이 갖는 정체성을 뚜렷하게 부각시키는데 있다. 연구결과, 상이점으로 사회적모델은 거시적인 이념적 수준에서 장애의 원인에 대한 패러다임의 변화를 추구한 반면, 자립생활모델은 자조모임과 활동보조서비스라는 구체적인 사회변화 양상을 요구하는 자립생활실천의 미시적 관점에서 당사자의 서비스에 대한 통제권을 강조한다. 유사성으로서는 당사자주의, 장애에 대한 사회적 책임, 초기단계에서의 지적장애인의 소외, 장애인차별금지법 제정에의 추동력 제공 등을 들 수 있다. 이러한 연구결과는 양 모델의 정체성을 보다 뚜렷하게 하는 장점과 함께, 향후 서비스 실천현장에서, 장애운동계에서 어떻게 이들을 이해하고 있으며 실제 관련 법률의 개정, 장애인장기요양제도 등의 도입·전개에 있어 실제 어떠한 영향을 미쳤는지를 살펴볼 수 있는 이론적 틀을 제시했다는데 그 의의가 있다.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.308-321
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• 2016

Purpose:This phenomenological study was to describe and to understand nurses' experiences of caring for woman with disability during pregnancy and childbirth. Methods: Participants were 13 nurses from 3 hospitals and 2 local clinics in J city, and were selected through snow-balling method. Data were collected two face to face, semi-structured interviews. The researcher used MP3 player and smart phone for recording as well as transcription process. As for the data analysis, Colaizzi's method was applied. Results: Nurses' experiences were structured as four theme clusters: 'Communicating between/among nurses', 'Recognizing pregnancy and childbirth of woman with disability', 'Taking care of woman with disability based on their differences' and 'Reflecting on nursing care for woman with disability'. Conclusion: It seemed that nurses' recognition to woman with disability and her pregnancy and childbirth was related their nursing care for woman with disability.

• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.52-60
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• 2007

Purpose: Perceived stigma may disrupt the ability of people with physical disability to successfully adapt to their situation. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between perceived stigma and self-esteem among adults with physically disabled. Method: The sample was drawn from August to October of 2006 at the rehabilitation centers and public health centers in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do, Korea. The data were collected from 314 persons with physical difficulty. Self-esteem was measured using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Perceived stigma was measured using the Perceived Stigma Scale for the person with physical disability developed by Lee. Result: There were significant differences of perceived stigma of the person with physical disability according to marital status and economic status. There was a statistically significant negative correlation between perceived stigma and self-esteem of the person with physical disability. Conclusion: The Findings of this study suggest that using nursing intervention to decrease the perceived stigma may promote self-esteem among persons with physical disability.