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Research on criminal policy measures for the prevention and management of infectious diseases: Focusing on Mers (감염병 예방관리를 위한 형사정책적 대응에 관한 연구: 메르스를 중심으로)

  • Suh, Kyung-Do;Choi, Jung-Il;Choi, Pan-Am
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2020
  • COVID19 is causing many fundamental phenomena all over the world. Since January 2020, the number of confirmed medical examinations has increased significantly worldwide, and the medical systems in each country have become paralyzed. South Korea has taken a proactive approach and is doing well, befitting the name K-Peace Prevention. However, it can be said that there is still a lack of awareness of legal and administrative limits. In this study examines the shortcomings and limitations of the laws relevant to the current infectious disease prevention and management systems from the perspective of criminal policy based on the "Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act," and comparatively analyzes the laws in advanced countries to propose effective and practical criminal policy response measures for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.

Establishment of Ministry of Health: Reform of Central Government for National Disease Control and Healthcare System (보건부 설립)

  • Park, Eun-Cheol
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.265-269
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    • 2020
  • Korea has failed to respond to the Middle East respiratory syndrome of 2015 and the early phase of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) of 2020. This is due to the structural problems of the Ministry of Health and Welfare that has been more increased manpower and budgets of the welfare part relative to those of the health part, and the ministers were appointed welfare experts, not health experts. In 21 (56.8%) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, the Ministry of Health operates independently, and these countries have been relatively well coping with COVID-19. The importance of the Korean health sector is increasing even further. Korea faces on the emerging infectious diseases, chronic infectious diseases such as tuberculosis that has been being a huge burden, and rapidly increasing non-communicable diseases, suicide and mental disorders, and some diseases due to fine dust and climate change. In addition, the rapid advancement of the aging society, the entry of an era of ultra-low fertility and low-economic growth, and the unification of the Korean peninsula are calling for a health policy reform. Therefore, the Ministry of Health should be established and systematically responsible for health policy, disease policy, medical policy, and medical security policy. Ministry of Health will be the control tower for K-Disease Control, K-Bio, and K-Health.

A Study on Mathematical Model of Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis (CAE) and Development of Animal Quarantine Information System Adapted for Small Island

  • Hirata, Teppei;Yonahara, Yoshihito;Asharif, Faramarz;Omatsu, Tsutomu;Miyagi, Takeshi;Nagata, Yasunori;Mizutani, Tetsuya;Tamaki, Shiro
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.302-309
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes a mathematical model of Caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE), which is a disease causing significant economic damage to the goat farming industry, and reports the application of this model to the development of an information management system of animal quarantine to overcome this disease. The mathematical model of CAE was derived from the AIDs model in human case because epidemical characteristics of these diseases including infection pass are similar. This model can be expressed by simultaneous differential equations. Simulations using a new model were performed according Euler's and Runge-Kutta method using numerical analysis software. In each method, strong convergence was observed and the results were similar. The design of an information management system of animal quarantine was proposed as an application of the new model. System design was constructed on the assumption that in subtropical islands, the expected development of information infrastructure and utilization will become valuable in the future.

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A Study on deduction of important factors for new infectious diseases through big data analysis (빅데이터 분석을 통한 신종감염병 중요 요인 도출)

  • Suh, Kyung-Do
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2021
  • This study attempted to derive important factors of emerging infectious diseases by collecting and analyzing text data onto emerging infectious diseases. For this purpose, articles in the Naver News database were directly crawled, pre-processed, and used for data analysis. In addition, additional analysis was performed using Big Kinds. As a result of the priority analysis, the importance was shown in the order of corona, infectious disease, quarantine, vaccine, outbreak, virus, infection, and development. As a result of the proximity centrality analysis, the importance was shown in the order of government, death, and plan, and the analysis result of Big Kinds showed that Covid-19 and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were important. Based on the results of this study, it can be said that the government's policy support is needed to raise public awareness of new infectious diseases, prevent disease, and develop vaccines and treatments.

Guidelines for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Response in Children and Adolescents (소아청소년 코로나바이러스감염증-19 대응지침)

  • Kim, Ki Hwan;Cho, Eun Young;Kim, Dong Hyun;Kim, Han Wool;Park, Ji Young;Eun, Byung-Wook;Jo, Dae Sun;Choi, Soo-Han;Choi, Jae Hong;Han, Mi Seon;Choi, Eun Hwa;Kim, Jong-Hyun;The Korean Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
    • Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.24-34
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    • 2020
  • The Korean Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the guidelines about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for children and adolescents. Case definitions and management of COVID-19 in neonates, infants, children and adolescents are presented in this guideline. In addition, guidelines for caregiver management are also provided. In this review, we introduce the contents of the current guidelines for COVID-19 in children and adolescents in Korea.

The response of A.I systems in other countries to Corona Virus (COVID-19) Infections: E-Government, Policy, A.I utilizing cases (코로나바이러스감염증(COVID-19)에 대한 국내 및 해외 A.I 시스템의 대응: 전자정부, 정책, A.I 활용사례)

  • Kim, Hyejin
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.479-493
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    • 2020
  • Outbreak of COVID-19 originated from China resulted significantly high casualties and social and economic damages. Currently the major countries see importance of accurate prediction of originating trend to prevent the spread of infectious disease and AI is actively utilized when establishing the system. Therefore this study has comprehended the status of utilizing the AI in overseas and made comparison and analysis with domestic status. It derived the necessity to establish national control tower based on One Health to respond to infectious disease to effectively utilize AI and suggested to establish higher organization, Medical Big Data Governance, to respond to the infectious disease. It is necessary to conduct further study to utilize the results and suggestions derived from this study into the policy and if the suggestions are reflected to improve institutional imperfection, it will be positively used for prevention of the spreading infectious disease and utilizing medical Big Data.

Needs of Biosecurity and Protocols for the Environmental Management of Carcasses Burial (가축매몰지 환경관리에 있어 차단방역의 필요 및 절차)

  • Cho, Ho-Seong;Kim, Geonha
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.305-312
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    • 2012
  • Avian influenza (AI) and foot and mouth disease (FMD) are two main contagious pathogenic viruses causing massive mortality burial, as burial is a primary measure to quaranteen the causative viruse(s). Biosecurity is a set of preventive measures designed to reduce the risk of propagation of infectious diseases. Main objectives of this paper were to discuss the needs of biosecurity and develop protocol outlines for environmental management of burial sites. Pathological characteristics of contagious viruses should be considered during environmental management practices. Current practice prescribes to minimize the potential for on-farm pollution and the spread of infectious diseases, policy makers should understand robust knowledge regarding biosecurity to make informed decisions on future legislation.

Non-Infectious Granulomatous Lung Disease: Imaging Findings with Pathologic Correlation

  • Tomas Franquet;Teri J. Franks;Jeffrey R. Galvin;Edson Marchiori;Ana Gimenez;Sandra Mazzini;Takeshi Johkoh;Kyung Soo Lee
    • Korean Journal of Radiology
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.1416-1435
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    • 2021
  • Non-infectious granulomatous lung disease represents a diverse group of disorders characterized by pulmonary opacities associated with granulomatous inflammation, a relatively nonspecific finding commonly encountered by pathologists. Some lesions may present a diagnostic challenge because of nonspecific imaging features; however, recognition of the various imaging manifestations of these disorders in conjunction with patients' clinical history, such as age, symptom onset and duration, immune status, and presence of asthma or cutaneous lesions, is imperative for narrowing the differential diagnosis and determining appropriate management of this rare group of disorders. In this pictorial review, we describe the pathologic findings of various non-infectious granulomatous lung diseases as well as the radiologic features and high-resolution computed tomography imaging features.

The Study on Improvement for Prevention and Nonproliferation on Infectious Disease Proliferations (감염병 예방 및 확산 방지를 위한 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Roh, Tae-Ho
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.144-150
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    • 2017
  • The inflow of infectious diseases is increasing due to the expansion of exchanges between countries and climate change. The public concern and anxiety about the increase of the possibility of infectious disease due to the social environment change are increasing greatly.These pandemics are a serious threat to the economy. Hence, multifaceted efforts are required to prevent them from spreading.In many hospitals, it is very important to promptly report infectious diseases, such as the CDC, when infectious diseases occur. In addition, it is difficult to separate general patients and suspected infected patients in these facilities, so there is a high risk of infection spreading within them. The paper presents the improvements of prevention and nonproliferation by researching the occurrence of infectious diseases, the method of separating infected patients, and the methods of preventing infectious diseases based on the audit results of MERS of the Board of Audit and Inspection.

Preparedness of Siddha system of medicine in practitioner perspective during a pandemic outbreak with special reference to COVID-19

  • Rajalakshmi, S.;Samraj, K.;Sathiyarajeswaran, P.;Kanagavalli, K.
    • CELLMED
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.29.1-29.6
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    • 2020
  • COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease-2019) is an infectious respiratory disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus-2). This new viral disease was unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. As of November 16th 2020, it affects about 54.3 million populations, death troll increased to 1.32 million cases in worldwide. Whereas in India 8.85 cases are infected with COVID-19, of which 1, 30, 112 cases were died. Till now there has been no specific anti-virus drug or vaccines are available for the treatment of this disease, the supportive care and non-specific treatment to the symptoms of the patient are the only options in Biomedicine, the entire world turns its attention towards alternative medicine or Traditional medicine. Siddha medicine is one of the primordial systems of medicine practiced in the southern part of India, it dealt a lot about pandemic, and its management. This review provides an insight into Pandemic in Siddha system and its management in both ancient history and modern history, National and state level Government policies related to current pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on usage of unproven drug during infectious disease outbreak, Preparedness of Siddha system during a pandemic outbreak Challenges and Recommendations.