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Influencing Factors on Workers Satisfaction in Periodic Health Examination (근로자 정기 건강진단 만족도에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Kang, Eun-Hong
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.30-38
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    • 2000
  • This study was carried out to investigate what factors affect satisfaction of periodic health examination undertaken by employees. The purpose of the study was to improve quality of periodic health examination and to increase the rate of workers participation in the screening test. The content of questionnaire was designed with focus on the satisfaction and attitude on the periodic health examination. Data were analyzed with 212 males, 181 females among 393 samples who took periodic examination at a general hospital in Seoul. Korea. The results were as follows: 1. Respondents were mainly in the thirties(42.7%), married(58.5%), more than 3 years working experiences(66.7%) and employed in Sales & Customers service industry(60.1%). 2. There were significant differences in the scores of satisfaction by general characteristics among the respondents. The highly educated and the single showed higher satisfaction on the periodic health examination than other respondents. 3. The scores of satisfaction in periodic health examination showed highly influenced by level of age, work duration, level of knowledge to the health screening and income. Based on the results, this study concluded that the periodic health examination might be necessary to modify its items according to the clients characteristics and their individual demands for maintenance of healthy life.

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Prevention and Early Detection of Occupational Cancers - a View of Information Technology Solutions

  • Davoodi, Somayeh;Safdari, Reza;Ghazisaeidi, Marjan;Mohammadzadeh, Zeinab;Azadmanjir, Zahra
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.14
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    • pp.5607-5611
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    • 2015
  • Thousands of people die each year from cancer due to occupational causes. To reduce cancer in workers, preventive strategies should be used in the high-risk workplace. The effective prevention of occupational cancer requires knowledge of carcinogen agents. Like other areas of healthcare industry, occupational health has been affected by information technology solutions to improve prevention, early detection, treatment and finally the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the healthcare system. Information technology solutions are thus an important issue in the healthcare field. Information about occupational cancer in information systems is important for policy makers, managers, physicians, patients and researchers; because examples that include high quality data about occupational cancer patients and occupational cancer causes are able to determine the worker groups which require special attention. As a result exposed workers who are vulnerable can undergo screening and be considered for preventive interventions.

The Study on the Recognition of Diagnosis Related Group in Healthcare Workers (포괄수가제 확대시행에 따른 의료기관 종사자의 인지도 조사)

  • Park, Ji-Kyeong;Lee, Ko-Eun
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.243-257
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    • 2013
  • This study was conducted in order to survey in healthcare worker's recognition of diagnosis related group(below; DRG) effect from July 1, 2012, to examine their recognition, expectation of the DRG system, and to provide the basic data necessary for the enforcement of the settlement. The subjects of this study were workers at clinics and hospitals sampled from hospital with DRG applying 7 diseases in Busan and Kyung-nam. A questionnaire of survey was conducted with the subjects working at clinics and hospitals from July, 25, 2012 to September 7, 2012, and the subjects were limited to doctors, officers, nurses, medical technicians and nurse assistants, and a total of 618 subjects were enrolled in this study. In the result of this study, generally, the healthcare workers recognized the DRG system. But their knowledge about that was not clear. Expanding enforcement DRG system at the present time, to provide accurate information to the healthcare consumer, workers need to know about DRG system clearly. To this end, for national health policy and medical institutions, workers should be educated constantly about providing medical service as well as the duty of enough explanation about the healthcare consumer's right to know.

A study on some workers' effective oral health behavior and workplace oral examination (일부 근로자의 유효구강건강행태 및 직장구강검진에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Im
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.239-247
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    • 2013
  • Objectives : The direction for qualitative improvement of our country's workers' by arranging data necessary for improving oral health program and system aiming to promote workers' oral health in the future is suggested in this study. Methods : The questionnaire by self-administrated method, which was selected by convenience sampling method, was carried out from October 4th to December 31th, 2011 targeting 424 workers from 6 working places in Jellabuk-do Province. Results : 1. It was indicated that workers' interest in oral health is higher than moderate and that workers are perceiving oral health as one of critical problems and thinking that the level of their oral health knowledge is low and oral health status is under moderate. 2. It was indicated that the rate of workplace oral screening is high, but the dissatisfaction ratio with workplace oral examination is high. Non-screening of medical treatment was indicated to be the highest after oral examination. 3. Factors of having influence upon the workplace oral examination included age, marital status, appearance, educational level, work-life term, and average monthly household income. Conclusions : It is judged to be likely important to make them have positive attitude toward oral health care through the accurate publicity of workplace oral examination and education on prevention of oral disease by reflecting workers' high interest in oral health.

Direction of Basic Composition on the 7th revised Curriculum for the Fisheries High Schools and Merchant Marine High Schools (제7차 수산·해운계 고등학교 교육과정의 기본 구성 방향)

  • Kim, Sam-Kon;Ju, Su-Dong;Kim, Sung-Jae
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.115-128
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    • 1998
  • Fisheries and merchant marine high school education is the core for human resources of fisheries and merchant marine industries. In the past, fisheries and merchant marine high school education was terminal education producing skilled worker in water area. But fisheries and merchant marine high school education are rater desired on educational role of helping student go on to college and to have continuing education after graduate high school. In this regard, the central purpose of this study was direction of basic composition on the 7th revised curriculum for the fisheries and merchant marine high school. The specific objectives were follow contents, this study present importance for 7th revised curriculum, and comparative analysis by the change of direction of basic composition from 1st revised curriculum to 7th revised curriculum. Also, this study present direction of basic composition on the curriculum in accordance with a change and demand of industrial society. The objective on the 7th revised curriculum for fisheries and merchant high schools is to teach students basic knowledge and skills related to fisheries and merchant marine industries, and self-reliant attitude so that students can get to the successful career roles in the rapidly changing industrial society.

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A Study on the Qualitative Evaluation for the Program of Clinical Social Welfare Setting : Focused on Utilizing of Phenomenological Self-Evaluation Method (사회복지조직에서의 프로그램 질적 평가 연구 : 현상학적 자기평가의 활용을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Jong-Hyug
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.47
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    • pp.334-368
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study is to apply to the phenomenological self-evaluation method in the social welfare agency. It means that the phenomenological self-evaluation method accepts "the reality" which occurs in the social welfare setting, and functions for the social worker to play dual role of practitioner-evaluator. This paper examines two dimensions of social work evaluation theory and practice. Firstly, this study is to investigate a trend of evaluation in social work setting, and seeks theoretical aspect of phenomenological self-evaluation method, with emphasis on the strength and limit of the positivism evaluation methods. Although qualitative evaluation was suggested to make an alternative to the positivism by qualitative researchers, they did not suggest the specific methods and roles of the practitioner-evaluator. In this study, two directions of the phenomenological self-evaluation method are suggested to overcome the limitations. which are "environment-relation self-evaluation" and "program-oriented self-evaluation". Secondly, the result of phenomenological self-evaluation studies for the social welfare community center program and organization in kangnam district from June, 1994 (Program-oriented self-evaluation) to march, 2000 (Environment-relation self-evaluation) are presented. the phenomenological self-evaluation study showed the expected outcome such as; reflective self-training, making a practice knowledge, enhancing service quality, and reinforcing the identity of social welfare profession.

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RIMS project application raising for a public transportation immediacy operation (공공교통 전동차 안전운행을 위한 RIMS 프로젝트 적용 제고)

  • Son Young-Jin;Lee Kang-won;Bang yeon-goon;Lee do-sun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.897-901
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    • 2005
  • 21 century as the knowledge information anger society now our society industry of all fields the rolling stock maintenance conservative standardization enterprise where information anger is being turning out construction Ministry of Transportation supported with continuous development of the supply section substitution quantity information processing system which the information highway is quick and the Korean railroad technical research worker propelled the enterprise as the subjective agency, it contracted this for a vehicle field information anger system construction in link of the enterprise our construction and an agreement, information technique composed the consortium t9day and it propelled a system codevelopment. The SMSC who is a front-runner of Maj loach city railroad operation agency to 'here business relates with a vehicle field maintenance conservativeness an immediacy operation and generally and information anger it will plan it will integrate it will own jointly and business efficiency and in the dictionary an obstacle occurrence electromotive car maintenance conservative information and it will improve only maintenance conservativeness of preventive maintenance of the electromotive car it knows it will prevent to construct the maintenance conservative system of the preventive maintenance, it applied the RIMS project to sleep.

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Development of a Controller for Polishing Robot Attached to Machining Center and Its Performance Evaluation

  • Go, Seok-Jo;Lee, Min-Cheol
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.346-351
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    • 1998
  • Cutting process has been automated due to progress of CNC and CAD/CAM, but polishing process has been only depended on experiential knowledge of expert. Polishing work for a curved surface die demands simple and repetitive operations but requires much time for its high precision. Therefore it is operated in the handiwork by skilled worker. However the workers intend to avoid gradually polishing work because of the poor environments such as dust and noise. In order to reduce the polishing time and solve the problem of shortage of skilled workers, it has been done some research for an automation of polishing. To automate the polishing process, a 2 axes polishing robot which is attached to a 3 axes machining center has been developed by our previous research. This automatic polishing robot is able to keep the polishing tool normal on the curved surface of die. Therefore its performance of polishing is improved because of always keeping the tool normal on the surface. In this paper, the smaller sized polishing robot is developed to improve polishing performance. And the controller for 2 axes polishing robot is developed. The controller is composed of TMS320C31 with high speed which is 40-ns instruction cycle time, RAM memory with 64K words, digital input with 64 bits, digital output with 32 bits, and D/A converter with 4 channels, which is 12 bits resolution. To evaluate polishing performance of this developed robot, polishing experiment for shadow mask was carried out.

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The oral health awareness and oral health care provided by workers in long-term elderly care facilities (일부 지역 노인요양기관 종사자의 구강건강 인식정도와 구강건강관리 제공 실태 조사)

  • Park, Jeong-Ran;Hong, Min-Hee;Choi, Yu-Ri
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.245-251
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the oral health awareness and oral health care provided by workers in the long-term elderly care facilities. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 213 workers in long-term elderly care facilities. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics, oral health awareness, oral health behavior, oral health knowledge, oral health care professionals, oral health care, oral health care improvement, and denture care. Except the incomplete answers, 200 data were analyzed by the statistical software of SPSS WIN 18.0. Results: Highly educated people tended to have higher oral health awareness. The workers in the facility maintained the oral health care but they suggested that dental professionals are needed. Conclusions: It is necessary to suggest the oral health care management by dental professionals.

Promoting the Quarry Workers' Hazard Identification Through Formal and Informal Safety Training

  • Bae, Hwangbo;Simmons, Denise R.;Polmear, Madeline
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.317-323
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    • 2021
  • Background: The surface mining industry has one of the highest fatality rates among private industries in the United States. Despite recent decreases in the fatality rates of comparable industries, the fatality rate in the surface mining industry has increased. Meanwhile, a lack of safety research in surface mining has hindered efforts to improve safety strategies in the surface mining workplace. Method: This study examined quarry workers' hazard identification skills by conducting a case study of a surface mining facility in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight quarry workers who were employed at the mine facility. In addition to the interviews, data were collected through field notes, notes from an expert meeting with safety managers, and site photographs to explore quarry workers' safety behaviors in the workplace. Results: The results showed that quarry workers identified hazards and improved their safety performance by translating safety knowledge learned from training into practice, acquiring hands-on work experience, learning from coworkers, and sharing responsibilities among team members. Conclusion: This study contributes to understanding quarry workers' safe performance beyond what they have learned in safety training to include their interaction with other workers and hand-on experience in the workplace. This study informs practitioners in the surface mining industry to build a safe work environment as they design effective safety programs for employees.