• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.144-148
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• 2018

Background: The objective of this study is to find temporal trends in the associations between cardiovascular disease and occupational risk factors in the context of the Canadian population. Methods: Population data were analyzed from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) collected between 2001 and 2014 for trends over time between heart disease and various occupational risk factors: hours worked, physical exertion at work, and occupation type (management/arts/education, business/finance, sales/services, trades/transportations, and primary industry/processing). Results: We found no significant difference in the average number of hours worked/wk between individuals who report having heart disease in all years of data except in 2011 ($F_{1,96}=7.02$, p = 0.009) and 2012 ($F_{1,96}=8.86$, p = 0.004). We also found a significant difference in the degree of physical exertion at work in 2001 ($F_{1,79}=7.45$, p = 0.008). There were statistically significant results of occupation type on self-reported heart disease from 2003 to 2014. Conclusion: Canadian data from the CCHS do not exhibit a trend toward an association between heart disease and the number of hours worked/wk. There is an association between heart disease and physical exertion at work, but the trend is inconsistent. The data indicate a trend toward an association between heart disease and occupation type, but further analysis is required to determine which occupation type may be associated with heart disease.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.92-100
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• 2012

Objectives: The French National Occupational Diseases Surveillance and Prevention Network (RNV3P) is a French network of occupational disease specialists, which collects, in standardised coded reports, all cases where a physician of any specialty, referred a patient to a university occupational disease centre, to establish the relation between the disease observed and occupational exposures, independently of statutory considerations related to compensation. The objective is to compare the relevance of disproportionality measures, widely used in pharmacovigilance, for the detection of potentially new disease ${\times}$ exposure associations in RNV3P database (by analogy with the detection of potentially new health event ${\times}$ drug associations in the spontaneous reporting databases from pharmacovigilance). Methods: 2001-2009 data from RNV3P are used (81,132 observations leading to 11,627 disease ${\times}$ exposure associations). The structure of RNV3P database is compared with the ones of pharmacovigilance databases. Seven disproportionality metrics are tested and their results, notably in terms of ranking the disease ${\times}$ exposure associations, are compared. Results: RNV3P and pharmacovigilance databases showed similar structure. Frequentist methods (proportional reporting ratio [PRR], reporting odds ratio [ROR]) and a Bayesian one (known as BCPNN for "Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network") show a rather similar behaviour on our data, conversely to other methods (as Poisson). Finally the PRR method was chosen, because more complex methods did not show a greater value with the RNV3P data. Accordingly, a procedure for detecting signals with PRR method, automatic triage for exclusion of associations already known, and then investigating these signals is suggested. Conclusion: This procedure may be seen as a first step of hypothesis generation before launching epidemiological and/or experimental studies.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.167-176
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• 2020

Recommendation Systems is the top requirements for many people and researchers for the need required by them with the proper suggestion with their personal indeed, sorting and suggesting doctor to the patient. Most of the rating prediction in recommendation systems are based on patient's feedback with their information regarding their treatment. Patient's preferences will be based on the historical behaviour of similar patients. The similarity between the patients is generally measured by the patient's feedback with the information about the doctor with the treatment methods with their success rate. This paper presents a new method of predicting Top Ranked Doctor's in recommendation systems. The proposed Recommendation system starts by identifying the similar doctor based on the patients' health requirements and cluster them using K-Means Efficient Clustering. Our proposed K-Means Clustering with Content Based Doctor Recommendation for Cancer (KMC-CBD) helps users to find an optimal solution. The core component of KMC-CBD Recommended system suggests patients with top recommended doctors similar to the other patients who already treated with that doctor and supports the choice of the doctor and the hospital for the patient requirements and their health condition. The recommendation System first computes K-Means Clustering is an unsupervised learning among Doctors according to their profile and list the Doctors according to their Medical profile. Then the Content based doctor recommendation System generates a Top rated list of doctors for the given patient profile by exploiting health data shared by the crowd internet community. Patients can find the most similar patients, so that they can analyze how they are treated for the similar diseases, and they can send and receive suggestions to solve their health issues. In order to the improve Recommendation system efficiency, the patient can express their health information by a natural-language sentence. The Recommendation system analyze and identifies the most relevant medical area for that specific case and uses this information for the recommendation task. Provided by users as well as the recommended system to suggest the right doctors for a specific health problem. Our proposed system is implemented in Python with necessary functions and dataset.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.148-157
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• 1998

Leachate is a result of the percolation of precipitation, uncontrolled runoff, and irrigation water into the landfill and can also include water initially contained in the waste as well as infiltrating groundwater. Behaviour of leachate by rainfall was studied to evaluate the variation of leachate generation and contaminants by rainfall in Sudokwon Landfill from January 1998 to October 1998. The quantity of leachate generated was measured with a flow meter, and the concentrations $BOD_5$, CODcr, T-N, $NE_3-N$, SS of leachate were also measured. Principal outcome obtained in this study are as follows : the quantity of leachate generated was the highest on August, the highest leachate generation volume in this period was 11,913㎥ and the lowest was $6,261m^3$. Although the similar amount of precipitation of 80mm applied to the two samples, there were difference in leachate generation due to precipitation duration, precipitation frequency, wet condition of solid wastes. As the result of regression analysis, the correlation coefficients(r) between the quantity of leachate generated and precipitation were 0.823, 0.976 between $BOD_5$ and CODcr, 0.992 between T-N and $NE_3-N$. As the quantity of leachate generated increased 48%, the concentration of $BOD_5$ and CODcr decreased 51% and 50% respectively. Therefore it was showed that the pollutant concentrations in leachate were diluted by precipitation. The concentrations of $BOD_5$ and COBcr in the rainy season were 2000~4000mg/1, 4000~6000mg/1 respectively, and 1000~3000 mg/1, 3000~5000 mg/l in the dry season. The loading of SS, $BOD_5$, CODcr(kg/month) on July was increased by 2.9 times, 2.8 times, 2.2 times with a basis on March. Therefore countermeasure of treatment facilities according to increase of loading by rainfall in summer is necessary.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.6465-6468
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• 2013

This study aimed to assess body features, and alimentary and lifestyle behavior related to cancer prevention among Romanian adults having relatives with cancer. The study was performed in 2010/2011 in an oncological hospital in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It involved 320 adults who had relatives with cancer. An anonymous questionnaire was filled in by each participants; their weights and heights were measured and body mass index (BMI) was calculated, 56.6% of the participants having a value higher than 24.9. Almost all subjects ate less than 400g of fruits and vegetables daily and 56% of the participants consumed more than 500 g of red meat weekly. One quarter of the study sample was performing less than 30 minutes of moderate physical activity daily. Some 28.1% of the subjects were smokers. These data call for comprehensive actions to help Romanian cancer patient relatives to respect the recommendations regarding healthy lifestyle promotion and cancer prevention. Health professionals should periodically assess body composition and lifestyle components of adults who have relatives with cancer in order to identify unhealthy behavior and offer them personalized education and counseling.

• 한국보건교육건강증진학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국보건교육건강증진학회 2004년도 국제학술대회
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• pp.111-129
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• 2004

이 논문은 공식적으로 건강한 공동체로 지정된 "건강한 공동체 접근"의 반경에 확장된 논쟁을 발전시켰으며 영국과국가적 정책에 건강을 증진시키기 위한 노력을 더욱 더 폭넓게 한 요소들을 제시하였다. 그것은 영국 북부의 주요 도시 Leeds에서 나온 예에서 나왔다. 특히 그것은 더 넓은 결정을 가진 자들에게 시민 건강의 향상시키기 위한 노력을 제시하였고, 그것은 또한 지역 사회의 참여와 다양한 요소들이 포함된 집합적인 대응이 요구된다. 불평등은 주요 문제로 인식되었으며, 빈곤 지역의 색출 및 그들을 향한 즉각적인 도움이 강조되었다. 어린 시절 가난과 빈곤에 대한 순화적 타파의 중요성이 언급되었다. 학교의 역할은 건강한 공동체와 위에서 언급된 건강증진 학교들간의 적합성과 일반적으로 건강에 기여하므로 그 중요한 요소로 보여진다. 건강 증진 학교는 젊은이들의 건강을 향상시킬 뿐만 아니라 그들 또한 지역 사회의 건강을 증진시킬 수 있는 동기유발과 인식, 그 기술들을 향상시킬 수 있다. 어린이 보행자 상해를 한 예로 사용하면, 이 논문은 그 문제와 원인은 단지 좁은 의미에서만 이해해서는 안 된다고 주장한다. 건강한 사회 운동은 우리에게 그 답은 가르쳐 주었고, 만약 그것이 효과적이라면 정책 결정 자들은 이에 주시하고 지역 환경에 적용시켜야 할 것이다. 단지 전통적인 건강 교육을 통한 행동 변화의 시도 대신에, 환경 그 자체가 건강이며 건강한 행동을 지지한다는데 인식이 필요하다. 이것을 성취하기 위해 우리는 정책 수립자들, 전문 직업인들 그리고 공동체 사이에 동기유발과 기술, 인지력을 발전시킬 필요가 있다. 이 "새로운 건강"교육은 더욱 전통적인 형식에서 제기된 건강 교육의 형태를 구별하기 위한 용어로 제시되었다.를 구별하기 위한 용어로 제시되었다.에 이르기까지 개략적인 계획이 개발되어 있다. 특히 취약계층의 건강권 보호와 건강증진을 위하여 취약계층이 주로 찾는 보건소 등 공공보건기관을 확충하고 기능을 강화시키는 것을 골자로 하여 공공보건기관 확충 및 도시형 보건지소 설치를 통한 의료취약지역 보건의료.건강증진서비스 제공 확대를 계획하고 있으며, 보건소.국공립병원.국공립대학병원을 연계하는 공보건의료전달체계를 구축하여 저소득층에게 양질의 보건의료서비스 제공하려고 한다. 그리고 가정간호사업 활성화 및 대도시 지역 방문보건사업 실시를 통해 저소득층의 의료비 부담을 경감시키려고 하고 있다. 국민건강증진종합계획에서는 건강증진사업의 효과적 추진을 위하여 중앙에 국민건강증진위원회를 구성하고, 도시형 보건지소 설치, 보건소 건강생활실천 사업확대 등을 주요내용으로 하고 있다. 사업에 따라서 국민건강증진기금뿐만 아니라 국비 및 지방비의 지원이 필요한 사업도 있다. 국민의 건강증진을 위하여 국민건강증진위원회 구성, 도시형 보건지소설치, 보건소의 건강생활실천사업 확대 등을 통해 사업기반을 구축하고 만성질환관리, 생애주기별 건강증진서비스 제공, 보건의료서비스의 형평성 제고 등 을 2010년까지 추진하는 것을 계획하고 있다. 정부의 건강증진 목표를 달성하기 위해서는 보건교육사업이 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있고 이에 따라 보건교육사의 역할은 더 확대될 전망이다. 주요 만성질환의 위험요인이 금연, 절주, 운동, 영양, 스트레스관리 등이며 이에 대한 적절한 과학적 정보의 수집이 필요하다. 보건교육사는 이러한 보건주제와 관련하여 행동변화의 훈련이 필요하다. 또한 건강증진사업이 지역사회의 보건소를 기반으로 하고 있으므로 지역사회내의 각 기관간 커뮤니케이션과 상호협력을 조정하는 일이 중요한 역할이 괼 전망이다. 또한 국민건강증진기

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.2795-2801
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• 2013

청년취업 및 불확실한 미래에 대한 불안감으로 인해 대학생들이 겪고 있는 실정과 함께 수면의 질이 좋지 않다는 것에 대한 연구가 필요하다고 판단되어 학생 272명을 대상으로 생활습관을 측정 하였다. 이 연구는 Alameda 7를 근거로 하였다. 또한 수면의 질을 측정하기 위하여 PSQI 설문지를 사용하였는데, 흡연의 경우 PSQI=6.97, 음주의 경우 PSQI=6.49, 커피섭취 PSQI=7.53, 영양상태 PSQI=6.49, 낮잠취침 PSQI=6.25의 결과가 나왔다. 이를 통해 흡연, 음주, 커피섭취, 영양공급 상태 및 낮잠취침 등이 대학생들의 수면의 질을 떨어뜨리고 있다는 것을 알 수 있다. 마지막으로 보건교육은 대학생들의 건강증진을 위해 힘쓰며 또한 수면의 질을 높여 보다 나은 건강한 대학생활을 영위하게 하여야 할 것이다.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.25-38
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• 2008

Objectives: This study identified the factors associated with successful smoking cessation for 6 months at a smoking-cessation clinic of a public health center in an urban area. Methods: The subjects of this study were 670 visitors to the smoking cessation clinic of Dongjak-Gu public health center in Seoul, from September 6, 2005 to March 24, 2006. The 274 visitors of them responded to the questionnaire with registration, which contained the information related to the study except that of registered card for the clinic. A dependent variable was success or failure in smoking cessation during the 6 month-smoking cessation program, measured the status of smoking cessation in each week by self-report. Independent variable included demographic information, the characteristics in using the clinic, health status and smoking related behaviour, exposure to other smokers in daily life and motivation. Multiple logistic regression model was used to find the factors associated with success of smoking cessation. Results: The success rate in smoking cessation for 6 months was 33.6%. Five pretreatment characteristics were identified as univariate predictors of continuous abstinence. Finally, age, job, and practice oriented motivation were associated significantly with the success of smoking cessation for 6 months from a multiple logistic regression analysis. The lower socio-economic smokers such as people having lower literacy level, lower income people, unskilled workers, and recipients by Medical Assistant Program were more likely to fail in continuous abstinence for 6 months. Conclusions: In order to increase the success rate in smoking cessation clinics of public centers, counselors should activate self confidence and practice oriented motivation of participants for smoking cessation.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.713-716
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• 2013

Social and behavioral scientists have proposed that a person's belief system crucially influences his or her behaviour, and therefore may affect outcomes of pain management. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between analgesic beliefs, analgesic adherence and pain experience amongst Taiwanese cancer outpatients. The cross-sectional study included 92 oncology outpatients in two teaching hospitals in the Taipei area of Taiwan. The research instruments included the Pain Opioid Analgesic Beliefs Scale-Cancer (POABS-CA), opioid adherence, and the Brief Pain Inventory-Chinese (BPI-Chinese). Beliefs about pain and opioids demonstrated a significant relationship with patients' opioid adherence (r = -0.30, p < 0.01). The more negative beliefs regarding opioids and pain the patient had, the worse their adherence to around the clock (ATC) analgesic regimen. However, there was no significant correlation between opioid belief and pain experience. As well, there were no significant relationships between adherence to opioid regimen and any of the measures of pain experience. The study highlights the potential importance of a patient's pain and opioid beliefs in adherence to pain medication.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.161-169
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• 2019

Objectives: The objective of the present study was to validate a shortened transformational leadership (TL) scale (12 items) comprising core TL behaviour and to test the associations of this shortened TL scale with depressive symptoms. Methods: The study used cross-sectional data from 1632 employees of the overall workforce of a middle-sized German company (51.6% men; mean age, 41.35 years; standard deviation, 9.4 years). TL was assessed with the German version of the Transformational Leadership Inventory and depressive symptoms with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The structural validity of the core TL scale was assessed with confirmatory factor analysis. Associations with depressive symptoms were estimated with structural equation modelling and adjusted logistic regression. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling showed better model fit for the core TL than for the full TL score. Logistic regression revealed 3.61-fold (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.20 to 5.93: women) to 4.46-fold (95% CI, 2.86 to 6.95: men) increased odds of reporting depressive symptoms (HADS score >8) for those in the lowest tertile of reported core TL. Conclusions: The shortened core TL seems to be a valid instrument for research and training purposes in the context of TL and depressive symptoms in employees. Of particular note, men reporting poor TL were more likely to report depressive symptoms.