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Achievement of Health Promotion Program in Korea (국민건강증진사업 10년의 성과)

  • Lee Kyu-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.143-171
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    • 2006
  • There has been 10 years since the Health Promotion Act was legislated. The government began to establish a health promotion fund on the basis of Health Promotion Act in 1995, and to manage and operate the fund from 1998. It is evaluated that health promotion program have had various outcomes in many aspects. First, there has been growing awareness of the impotance of health promotion through the establishment of Health Plan 2010 and the effort to actualize the Plan. Second, the importance of securing health equity and identifying health determinants have been recognized during the planning process of Health Plan 2010. Third, the health promotion program have mainly focused on improving healthy life style of the population. As a result, desirable health behavior change of the population could be expected from the result of 2005 National Health and Nutrition Survey. Fourth, public health centers began to play a crucial role in implementing health promotion programs, and began to build infrastructure for health promotion programs. Fifth, management efficiency of private health related organizations have been improved. Finally, training for health promotion personnel and their participation in the program could be the foundation for the higher level of outcome achievement from the health promotion programs. Important challenges for future health promotion would be identification of the determinants and risk factors of health, formulating plan of regional health promotion programs, building infrastructure for health promotion, creation of specific action model by public health center, development of health promotion program for the elderly, conducting research for evidence concerning major factors reducing the need for health care through prevention disease activities, and establishment of evaluation and feed back system for health promotion programs.

A Study on the Criteria for Selection of Medical Care Facilities by Cataract Patient (백내장 환자의 병원선택기준에 관한 연구 - 서울시내 안과전문병원과 대학병원을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Yong-Ran;Ha, Ho-Wook;Sohn, Tae-Yong
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.59-77
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    • 2000
  • There are increasing interest and need for information on health care consumer with the significance of hospital marketing and strategic planning being increasingly emphasized. This study was conducted to investigate the criteria for selection of medical facilities according to the characteristics of cataract patient. In order to investigate the major factors affecting selection of medical facilities by cataract patient, 300 subjects of cataract patients who was operated at 5 various medical care facilities were selected. Questionnaires are given on March, 2000 and 273 questionnaires were collected. Two types of hospitals(Eye Hospital and University hospital) were combined and analyzed. The main results of this research is as following; 1. In general characteristics of the patients, the variables shown statistically a significant difference between Eye Hospital and University Hospital; The6 educational level and average income are significantly higher in University Hospital Patient. 2. University Hospitals were preferred by the factors of social relationship, social reputation. The critical factors in reference for Eye hospital were kindness, service speed and convenience. This study can be used as a baseline data for marketing planning of hospital management. But the study may be limited in that the results cannot be generalized due to its small sample size and not being able to reflect demographic variables and life style. Further studies to investigate the hospital consumer behavior will be needed.

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A qualitative analysis on therapeutic factors in group counseling based on family sculpture technique (질석 분석을 통한 가족조각 기법 집단상담의 상담효과 요인)

  • 김수연;심혜숙
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.239-258
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    • 2001
  • The purposes of this study are first, to develop the group counseling program based on Satir’s family sculpture technique, second to investigate the therapeutic factors of Satir’s family sculpture in group counseling. To perform this study, 8 session of time limited(3 hours) group counseling were carried out. There were 12 participants in this group. The major findings were as follows: 1) the rank order fro therapeutic factors were university, group cohesiveness, instillation of hope, family reenactment, self-understanding and altruism. 2) through the family sculpture technique, group participants saw their communication patterns. They found out that use communication patterns to hide their low self-esteem. They learned the alternative communication style. 3) the participants developed the sense of self-disclosure, empathy and trust in the group. Self disclosure, empathy and trust facilitated a deeper level of therapeutic group interaction. 4) in observing their group members do their family sculpture, participants found out that every family has some problem that the family conflict is universal thing, 5) the participants had opportunity to share their feelings that were hidden deep inside Intensive emotions following self disclosure led to catharsis, 6) the participants developed a good feeling toward their group and it led to group cohesiveness. 7) through the family sculpture technique, the participants gained a better understanding on their role and position within their families 8) through the family sculpture technique, they gained a better understanding of their family. They found their family members’ psychological positions and unfinished emotional businesses and thus they could restructure their family sculptures. 9) the participants had the opportunity to feel what it is like to become parents themselves, They became to see their parents as individuals. 10) the participants acted out what they wanted to do but could not do in the past. They saw the possibility of change and development in themselves.

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The Characteristics and Implications of the Socially-Oriented Innovation Policy (사회적 목표 지향적 혁신정책의 특성과 함의)

  • Song, Wi-Chin
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.1-28
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    • 2008
  • This study investigates the characteristics and implications of the newly emerging socially-oriented innovation policy. The socially-oriented innovation policy has systemic views on the evolution of socio-technical system and innovation policy. It's ultimate goal is the transition toward sustainable socio-technical system and it takes "strategic niche management" approach for the transition policy. The governance structure of the policy is more open to the public actors, such as social service organizations and public institutes. As a case study, "the Technology-based Policy for the Enhancement of Quality of Life", which is the first comprehensive socially-oriented policy of Korea, is examined and it is suggested that the policy has some limitations because of the path dependency of targeting-oriented and catching-up style innovation policy of Korea.

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An Evaluation of the Suitability of Data Mining Algorithms for Smart-Home Intelligent-Service Platforms (스마트홈 지능형 서비스 플랫폼을 위한 데이터 마이닝 기법에 대한 적합도 평가)

  • Kim, Kilhwan;Keum, Changsup;Chung, Ki-Sook
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.68-77
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    • 2017
  • In order to implement the smart home environment, we need an intelligence service platform that learns the user's life style and behavioral patterns, and recommends appropriate services to the user. The intelligence service platform should embed a couple of effective and efficient data mining algorithms for learning from the data that is gathered from the smart home environment. In this study, we evaluate the suitability of data mining algorithms for smart home intelligent service platforms. In order to do this, we first develop an intelligent service scenario for smart home environment, which is utilized to derive functional and technical requirements for data mining algorithms that is equipped in the smart home intelligent service platform. We then evaluate the suitability of several data mining algorithms by employing the analytic hierarchy process technique. Applying the analytical hierarchy process technique, we first score the importance of functional and technical requirements through a hierarchical structure of pairwise comparisons made by experts, and then assess the suitability of data mining algorithms for each functional and technical requirements. There are several studies for smart home service and platforms, but most of the study have focused on a certain smart home service or a certain service platform implementation. In this study, we focus on the general requirements and suitability of data mining algorithms themselves that are equipped in smart home intelligent service platform. As a result, we provide a general guideline to choose appropriate data mining techniques when building a smart home intelligent service platform.

Comparative Analysis and Evaluation of Health and Nutritional Status of Male Industrial Workers in Korea (사무직과 생산직 근로자의 영양실태 비교 및 건강 관련 요인 분석)

  • Kim, Sun-Gyeong;Yeon, Bo-Yeong;Jang, Jeong-Hui
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.326-335
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    • 2003
  • This study was carried out to collect information to establish a framework for meal management and nutritional service for prevention of chronic degenerative disease in the industrial workers. We investigated the health concerned life-style, nutrient intakes, anthropometry and biochemical parameters in the male workers in Korea by work condition. Anthropometric parameters of height, weight, waist, hip and triceps skinfold thickness were measured and biochemical parameters including Urine pH, hemoglobin, blood glucose, total cholesterol, GOT, GPT, $\gamma$-GPT and blood pressure were determined for 101 subjects(50 office workers : 33.9yr, 51 laborers : 34.4yr). To assess the nutrient intakes and diet quality of workers, dietary intake was measured by one day 24-hour recall method. Result of anthropometric parameters of height(p<0.01), weight(p<0.05), hip(p<0.05), TSF(p<0.01) were significantly higher in office workers than in laborers. Biochemical parameters were not significantly difference in both of them. Average daily nutrient intakes of both groups was higher than the Korean RDA and report on 2001 National Health & Nutrition Survey. The calcium(p<0.01), iron(p<0.05), vitamin A(p<0.01), vitamin B1(p<0.01) and niacin(p<0.05) intakes in laborers were significantly higher than in office workers. Nutrition adequacy ratio(NAR), mean adequacy ratio(MAR) and index of nutritional quality(INQ) of laborers were higher than those of office workers. This results indicated that the onset possibility of chronic degenerative disease appeared higher in office workers. Therefore, meal menagement and nutritional service for prevention of chronic degenerative disease of industrial works needs to be more variant guidelines.

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The Convergence Study of Self-Management and Self-efficacy on Health Promotion Activities of University Student (대학생의 자기생활관리와 자기효능감이 건강증진행위에 미치는 융복합적 연구)

  • Lee, Sook Ryon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.311-320
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: A descriptive study to focus the life style, self-efficacy and health promotion activity of university students, to analyze the phase-to-phase relationship between and impact on health promoting behaviors. Method: At K University among 225 students on 22-26th August 2014. Self-management and self-efficacy of [24] and health promotion activities of [29] are used for the measuring tools. Results: Health promotion activity with general characteristics is major, living and allowed time is a significant different. Between health promotion activity and self management of health variables were shown moderate correlation. Self-efficacy was too. The relevant explanatory factors influencing the self management of health promotion activities was found to be 64.0%. Conclusion: This study suggests that to improve the health promotion activities, measures to promote self-management and self-efficacy are required and the development of health promotion program is needed.

The Relationship among Types of Lifestyle, Motivation, and Travel Product Selection of Baby Boomer Consumer (베이비부머소비자 라이프스타일 유형과 동기, 그리고 여행상품 선택간의 영향관계)

  • Kim, Eun-Joo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2016
  • Baby boomers who were born right after Korea War make up about 15% of population of Korea and lead an aging society rapidly. They're retiring since from 2012 and going to make up nearly 80% of total of old retirees. Baby Boomers with much higher income and education levels are going to enjoy their retirement as traveling. Therefore, this study invests the relationship between lifestyle and travel product selection of baby boomer consumer. Two big results are as follows. One is that baby boomers progress consumption activity(because they have their own purchasing power) and have health and leisure lifestyle and family lifestyle. The other is when they select travel product, they eventually consider three elements- travel company, transportation, and travel colleague.

A Study on Consumer-Centric Smart Mobile Virtual Store (소비자 체험 평가를 통한 스마트 모바일 가상 스토어 활성화 방안 연구)

  • Koo, Hye-Gyoung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.209-219
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    • 2013
  • Smart phone environment have an effect on consumer life style, as well as advances in technology. In this paradigm shift on digital convergence make change to commodities, services, and distribution channels for consumers. HomePlus wholesale that is representative distribution company in Korea launched the new distribution channel model that combined off-line store with online store and mobile shopping system called 'smart mobile virtual store'. That is highly praised by abroad media and festivals. This study is an exploratory study on consumer-centric smart mobile virtual store of HomePlus. There are value and chance for developing the new digital distribution model, in this study, because the case study and evaluation of consumers is important in this momentous time.

Income-related differences in cancer screening in Korea : Based on the 6th(2014) Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (소득수준에 따른 암 검진 이용현황 분석: 2014년 국민건강영양조사 자료를 중심으로)

  • Lim, Ji-Hye
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.329-338
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    • 2017
  • This study aims to identify factors to affect cancer screening utilization and differences in cancer screening by household income. This research selected 3,393 adults aged ${\geq}40years$ among surveyees from the 6th(2014) Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We analyzed state of cancer screening utilization according to general characteristics, life style, health status, income level using descriptive statistics. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the factors associated with cancer screening utilization. In result, cancer screening rate was significantly different according to household income. And the significant factors associated with cancer screening utilization were sex, age, marital status, education level, economic activity, private insurance, smoking, presence or absence of high physical activity, number of chronic diseases, and household income. This indicates that the effective cancer screening program on the low household income, chronic disease patients is needed, suitable for digital age. We believe that these results will be used positively for the equity of cancer screening utilization, providing the basic materials for the further research on the establishment of the health-related policy.