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Disaster Victims' Post-trauma Risk, Posttraumatic Growth and Subjective Well-being - Social Support as a Mediator and Income as a Moderator - (재난피해자의 외상 후 위기와 외상 후 성장, 주관적 안녕감 간의 관계 - 사회적 지지의 매개효과, 소득의 조절효과 -)

  • Sim, Olivia S.;Sohn, Young Woo;Park, Sang Hyun;Yoon, Ji Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2016
  • The current study examined the relationships between disaster victims' post-trauma risk and posttraumatic growth, and the mediational role of social support for this relationships. In addition, we tested the hypothesis that income status would moderate the relationship between post-trauma risk and subjective well-being. Two hundred disaster victims completed Post-trauma Risk Checklist (PRC), Posttraumatic growth scale, Social support scale and Concise Measure of Subjective Well-Being (COMOSWB) as well as questions about their demographic characteristics. Results showed that those with high post-trauma risk demonstrated significantly higher levels of posttraumatic growth as compared to those with low post-trauma risk and social support partially mediated this relationship. Also, high levels of post-trauma risk predicted low levels of recent subjective well-being. Participants with high income obtained higher subjective well-being than did those with low income among high post-trauma risk groups. Implications for post-trauma risk and posttraumatic growth are discussed.

Disaster Preparation of Visiting Nurses in Public Health Centers (보건소 방문간호사의 재난대비 및 재난간호핵심능력 영향요인)

  • Uhm, Dongchoon;Park, Youngim;Oh, Hyunjin
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.240-249
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing personal disaster preparation and disaster nursing core competency among visiting nurses in public health centers. Methods: A descriptive survey study was adopted. A convenience sample was taken from 277 subjects in three regions. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, correlation, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. Results: The mean personal disaster preparation and disaster nursing core competency scores were 11.13 and 76.87, respectively. Personal disaster preparation was statistically significant by experience of disaster victims and disaster management guideline. Disaster nursing core competency was statistically significant by participation in future disaster recovery. As a result of multiple regression analysis, personal disaster preparation accounted for 14.9 of the variance by experience of disaster victims and disaster management guidelines; disaster nursing core competency accounted for 8.9 of the variance by perception of disaster nursing. Conclusion: Although visiting nurses are ill-prepared for disaster, global natural and man-made disasters can occur regardless of time and place. Disaster education and training should therefore be included in nurses' fundamental education.

A Disaster Victim Management System Using Geographic Information System (지리정보시스템을 활용한 재난피해자 관리시스템)

  • Hwang, Hyun-Suk;Choi, Eun-Hye;Kim, Chang-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.59-72
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    • 2011
  • The research of psychological supporting systems as safety and welfare for disaster victims damaged psychologically as well as physically by a sudden disaster to return to effectively their social life has been carried. The domestic National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) is operating the Disaster Victim Psychology Support Center that helps with curing damaged psychology and studies the transmission system of psychology management services, the classification of victims for disaster psychology support, and emergency consultation method to systemically support disaster psychology management. However, current psychology supporting centers provide the simple information for supporting centers such as medical and social welfare organizations. The development research of IT-based management systems to obtain needed information to construct the proposed systems curing psychological damage is still primitive step. Therefore, this paper shall propose a GIS-based integrated management system for victims and managers to effectively share related information one another and to return to victims' social life as soon as possible. Also, we implement a simple prototype system based on the Web. The proposed system supports the spatial search and statistical analysis based on map as well as keyword search, because having the location information on disaster victims, damage occurrence places, welfare and medical institutions, and psychological supporting centers. In addition, this system has the advantage reducing the frequency of disaster damage by providing aids in making efficient policy systems for the managers.

Comparative Analysis of Earthquake Management in Pohang and Japan (포항 지진과 일본 지진관리 업무 비교·분석)

  • Kim, Su Ran;Kim, Hye Won
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.193-199
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to create a disaster management system after an earthquake. Japan's earthquake disaster management system, including the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Act, addresses all of the disaster phases of prevention, mitigation, preparedness and emergency response as well as recovery and reconstruction with roles and responsibilities among the national and local governments clearly defined. Korea's earthquake disaster management system are including the Disaster Countermeasures Basic, but when the 9.12 earthquake occurred, problems such as insufficient early response, study on the earthquake lack were revealed. This study conducted a field survey and analyzed coping process after Po Hang earthquake. Therefore, this study have found that Disaster Management Headquarters are operated rapidly. They are coped with urgent safety inspection for damage facilities and soil liquefaction with advanced equipment. And The headquarters interviewed with victims. So they found out What the victims needed. However, when carrying out relief activities, Research of temporary housing and allocation of donations was not rapid. Further, this study have found that earthquake specialists were lack and disaster information transfer was not working. This study will be utilized as fundamental data in planning disaster management system after an earthquake.

A multi-dimensional approach to disaster mental health and the roles and contributions of social work field (재난 정신건강서비스에서 사회복지분야의 역할과 개입전략 : 다차원적 접근 모델)

  • Kim, Yeunhee
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.5-34
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    • 2011
  • There have been increasing incidents of natural and social disasters that claimed many lives and caused financial calamities worldwide, which call for an attention to mental health issues affecting disaster victims. This study reviewed the findings of the empirical research on the effects of disaster on the victims, the prevalence and determinants of the mental health problems. The disaster tends to disproportionately affect the socio-economically disadvantaged population and their mental health problems and recovery seemed to be heavily influenced by post-disaster experiences such as restoration of physical environment, prospect of economic recovery and resumption of normalcy in their lives, opportunities for participation in decision-making that affect their lives. Such findings suggest that the disaster mental health should shift from its traditional approach that focuses on short-term clinical interventions to alleviate acute mental distress for the victims to a public health approach that involve medical, social and economic interventions as well as community empowerment to prevent chronicity of the mental health problems and to improve the general quality of life of the individuals and the community adversely affected by the disaster. Implications for the social work research, policy making, education and practice were discussed.

A Study on the Plan for the Recycled Use of Temporary Housing applied 3R Concept (3R 개념을 적용한 임시주거의 재사용 활용방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Eun-Young;Wang, Woo-Chul;Lim, Seok-Ho;Hwang, Eun-Kyoung
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2015
  • In South Korea, a certain number of temporary housings are pre-produced and stored in a warehouse, which are later relocated and installed in the areas damaged by disasters. Through the supply of temporary housings upon the occurrence of a disaster, disaster victims are able to rapidly go back to their everyday lives, and the social confusion formed after the occurrence of a disaster is reduced. Although temporary housings can be used for various purposes, they are currently being used only for helping disaster victims and are thus facing the difficulty of continuing technology development due to their low marketability. To increase the use of temporary housings, this study was conducted to formulate a plan for the recycled use of temporary housings in non-disaster situations. This study intended to open wide the possibility of operating temporary housings regardless of the type, period, and scale of the disaster, and to propose a plan for the reuse of temporary housings in non-disaster situations.

A Study on the Optimal Routing Planning Algorithm for Rescue of Multiple Victims in Disaster Area (재난 지역 다수 조난자 구조를 위한 최적 경로 계획 알고리즘 연구)

  • Kim, Ki-Tae;Cho, Sung-Jin;Jeon, Geon-Wook
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2010
  • The large-scale disasters occur to unexpected accidents such as natural disasters(earthquake, typhoon, tsunami, etc.), and human-caused accidents(fire, collapse, terror etc.). Rescue teams perform rescue activities to save many lives in large-scale disaster area. The main purpose of this study is to compose a optimal routing planning for rescue of multiple victims in disaster area. A realistic routing planning with rescue limit time which considers rehabilitation and reconstruction will be suggested in this study. A mathematical programming model and a hybrid genetic algorithm will be suggested to minimize the total spending time. By comparing the result, the suggested algorithm gives a better solution than existing algorithms.

Measurement of Severity of Hazards and Investment in Occupational Safety & Health According to Ship Types Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP를 이용한 조선업 선종별 위험도 및 안전관리 수요 예산에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Bin;Chang, Seong-Rok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.105-110
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    • 2012
  • Although reinforcement of work intensity caused by the recent prosperity of shipbuilding businesses and the steady increasing of results which produces orders has difficulties with heavy workload, unique work circumstance in shipbuilding industry where main and subcontractor do the job together is not easy to manage its safety systematically. According to KOSHA(Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency), there were 2, 587 deaths of 95,806 disaster victims a year on average for late 6 years(2003-2008), therein 36,605 disaster victims and 646 death in manufacture where shipbuilding have 2,287 victims, 6.25% of total disaster victims and 45 deaths, 6.97%. Moreover it shows much higher accident rate in shipbuilding industry in Korea than well developed countries in this industry as Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and so it does about 3 to 10 times higher in case of death. Compared to Japan with a shipbuilding competition of orders received system, 2 times and 2.3 times higher for each and it is more than 2 times higher than accident rate of all domestic industries. These increasing of disaster result in a labor-management dispute and it is necessary that more positive efforts and investments because there occurs blind spot, neglected industry safety and health management by lack of them, Therefore this study, for the effective safety and health management of shipbuilding industry, attempts to analyze risk on kinds of ships and budget needed in safety management through classifying ships that are being made recently by three dominate major companies. For this, we carried out a survey and interview targeting experts related to shipbuilding industry and used AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) for result analysis. It is considered that cost of safety and health management will be spent more effectively on the results about risk on kinds of ships and budget needed in safety management in the study and that this study can contribute to decreasing disasters in shipbuilding industry.

A Study on the Evaluation and Improvement of Relief Goods by IPA analysis - Focus on the Flood Victims of Gyeonggi-Do - (IPA분석을 통한 재해구호물품 평가 및 개선 - 경기도 수해 이재민을 대상으로 -)

  • Yoon, Sanghoon;Lee, Seunghee;Lee, Eunae
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.346-355
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    • 2015
  • The study is to understand the needs of flood victims of Korea through the analysis of relief goods, and to assess extent of support-service efficiencies. According to the analysis, both emergency relief kit and cooking relief kit are possibly labelled 'the primary' and 'the secondary necessaries' respectively. Here the former includes those items directly related with basic living condition for the victims while the latter does some of items for more convenience lifestyle. The results of the study would be substantial in the sense that they could provide some useful clues upon which improvement policies or programs associated with relief goods for flood victims are derived.

Media Reporting of Natural Disaster: the Case of Typhoon Rusa (자연재난 보도의 특성 분석: 태풍 루사의 사례 연구)

  • Kim, Man-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.5 no.3 s.18
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2005
  • The primary source of disaster information for victims as well as ordinary people is mass media. In spite of their importance, the media often inaccurately portrays reality, which has stimulated academic debates. In Korea, however, media reporting patters of disaster have been hardly addressed. Therefore, the paper analyzes how newspaper and television news have reported typhoon Rusa between August 29 and October 1 in 2002 by using KINDS(Korean Integrated News Database System). The results show that television news tend to present more soft news stories emphasizing human interest stories than newspaper articles, relying on victims as primary interviewees. It is also pointed out that the Korean media do not play a significant role in providing disaster information to public regarding how to lessen the effects of impact through preparation. Disaster mythology representing wrong beliefs about human behavior in disaster is found in Korean media reporting, too. Unlike their western counterparts, however, Korean media seem to use the dependency image of helpless victims in order to stimulate donations. Analyses of disaster reporting patterns suggest that, in make disaster warning messages associated with behavioral responses, credible and official sources should provide clear and precise warning messages to the media, and the media also need to stress individual responsibilities in protecting his or her own properties not to make victims heavily dependent on public supports, while inducing donations.