• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.13-23
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• 2016

Background: South Korea is rapidly being an aging-society and the demand of long-term care insurance services for elderly patients is rising. In addition, because the elderly taking multiple medicines, the adherence is lowered and the adverse events are easily occurred. Therefore, many are interested in introducing the geriatric pharmacy specialist to manage this situation. Purpose: By applying a similar program such as the geriatric pharmacy specialist working in nursing home, we conducted this study to evaluate the potential contribution to both the health insurance services and financial savings for the elderly patients. Methods: We conducted a trial in an elderly nursing home to collaborate between doctor and pharmacist making a checklist for improving medication adherence and establish a consultation system. Also we applied a smart phone application in the pharmaceutical care processes. Results: Thereby completing the drug therapy related checklist apply to nursing facilities in South Korea. And we got a performance that improves medication adherence when used in the clinical practice settings. Conclusion: By introducing a training program of pharmacy care managers and geriatric professionals such as the United States and Japan, we revealed the elderly nursing home residents and vulnerable elderly people living alone were improved the medication adherence and it will contributed to the health and quality of life of the patients.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.5816-5825
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• 2012

인구가 고령화되면서 치매환자는 매년 급증하고 있고 이로 인한 치매환자의 치료 및 관리비용 등 사회적 비용은 크게 늘고 있어 이에 대한 대책이 절실하다. 외국에서도 국가차원에서 치매에 관한 국가전략을 수립하거나 효율적인 치매관리를 위한 국가차원의 대책을 세우거나 관련 법제도를 마련하고 있다. 치매에 대한 법제도적 대응방안으로 노인복지법, 노인장기요양보험법, 치매관리법이 존재한다. 보다 효과적인 치매관리 대책을 위해 관련법과 정책의 추진에 있어서 다음과 같은 개선이 필요하다. 첫째, 치매 검진을 65세 이상노인에 대한 국민건강보험의 건강검진 항목에 반드시 포함시키고 1차 검진에서 이상이 발견되면 진료를 계속 받을 수 있도록 하는 것이 필요하다. 둘째, 치매의 특성상 치매는 증상이 심해질수록 치료 효과가 적고 가족들의 부담도 급격히 증가한다. 치매예방사업과 조기 검진을 통해 치매 발병을 예방하거나 발병 시기를 늦추고 조기 발견하여 치료를 받도록 하여 사회적 비용을 최소화하는 것이 필요하다. 셋째, 현재와 같은 노인장기요양보험법상의 장기요양급여내용의 획일성으로는 경증 치매 등 요양노인의 욕구를 다양하게 충족시키기 어려우므로 등급판정기준 완화와 서비스 이용대상의 확대가 필요하다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.138-175
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• 1994

The objectives of this study are (i) to review current situations and problems of the occupational health care system with emphasis on reforming the organizations and services, (ii) to find out a disirable occupational health system model based on integration of the occupational health system and the general health system, and finally, (iii) to suggest policy implications in occupational health services in the light of objectives of the newly emerging national health insurance reform in Korea. The major policy implications of this study are as follows: 1. In the long-run, within the occupational health system, preventive occupational health services such as employees' physical check-up, working environment examination, etc should financially be integrated with industrial accident compensation insurance. Currently separately paying expenses for each different category of services by the owner of an enterprise should be disbursed once through the payment of contributions of industrial accident compensation insurance. And then, it is necessary to strengthen and expand the role and function of industrial accident compensation insurance to cover preventive occupational health services. 2. The occupational health system should be integrated with general health system for its effective management. For the short-term policy, it is necessary to eliminate fiscal and access barrier between industrial accident compensation insurance and national health insurance by means of ex post facto settlement of accounts. The duplication of employees' physical check- ups between under the health insurance program and under the industrial health services must be coordinated in a manner either through mutual authorization by the two parties concerned or through merge into the health insurance. 3. The intent of current employees' physical check-up system focused on detection of occupational diseases, should be converted to an idea of medical surveillance system or biological moritoring system. The introduction of medical surveillance or biological monitoring system is a necessary condition to build a positive, effective and inexpensive occupational health care system.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.232-265
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• 1998

Taiwan has experienced rapid economic growth during the past two decades. As a result, the demand for health care in Taiwan has increased rapidly. To meet the rising demand, Taiwan implemented a National Health Insurance (NHI) program on March 1, 1995. This program now covers more than 96 percent of Taiwan's citizens. Implementation of the NHI in 1995 represents fulfillment of a primary social and health policy goals of Taiwan. The goals of the NHI program is to eliminate financial barriers of health care for the citizens, to improve the quality of care. To achieve these goals, the NHI was designed on the following principles: 1. All Taiwan citizens are compul내교 joined the NHI program by law; 2. The NHI program provides comprehensive services; 3. The NHI is run by one single govt' subsidy; 5. The NHI adopt fee-for-services scheme to pay medical expenses and copayment to avoid abouse of medical services. However, the scheme did not bring in the efficient use of health care C. National Health Council, 1986 NARC, Aging in Japan, International Publication Series 1991;2 Kahana EF. Kiyak HA. Attitude and behavior of staff in facilities for the aged, 1984 Naoki I, John CC. Health polic report japan's medical care system, New England Joumal of Medicine 1995; 333(19) National Economic Research Associates, The Health CAre System in Japan, NERA, 1993. National Federation of health Insurance Societies (KEMPOREM), Health Insurance and Health Insurance Societies in Japan, 1995. Owe Ahlund, Aging and housing in sweden, Paper presented at the International Symposium, Long term Care Facility, 1993. Statisitics Jahrbuch, Statistisches Bundesamt, 1992. Stein S. Linn, MIW. and Stein EM. Patient's anticipation of stress in nursing home care, 1985. U. S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, A Report of the special Committee on Aging, Washing D. C, 1992. U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1994.

• 사회복지연구
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.31-56
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• 2013

한국에서 2008년부터 시행된 노인장기요양보험제도는 요양욕구가 인정된 모든 노인에게 장기요양서비스 공급이라는 사회적 지원을 제도화하였다. 이를 계기로 한국 노인돌봄의 사회적, 제도적 환경은 새롭게 형성되었다. 이러한 새로운 조건에서 가족돌봄의 위치와 의미를 재조명하고자 하는 것이 본 연구의 문제의식이다. 이를 위해 공식적인 돌봄서비스를 이용하는 노인들에 대한 가족돌봄의 변화를 분석하였다. 분석의 초점은 공식과 비공식, 제도적 서비스와 가족돌봄의 통합으로서 노인돌봄의 양상을 파악하고 이 안에서 공식적 돌봄의 역할과 가족돌봄에서 일어난 변화를 파악하는 데 있다. 이를 위해 노인장기요양보험제도를 이용하는 가족돌봄자(노인의 배우자 및 자녀) 중 재가서비스 이용자 18명을 대상으로 심층면접조사를 실시하였고, 질적내용분석을 통해 연구결과를 도출하였다. 연구 결과, 표준화된 방문요양 및 방문목욕 등 노인장기요양서비스는 개별 사례별로 상이한 비중과 의미로 이용되고 있었다. 공식돌봄과 비공식 가족돌봄의 결합양상은 다양하게 나타났는데 본 연구에서는 네 가지 서로 다른 양상을 발견할 수 있었다. 요양보호사에 의한 노인장기요양서비스를 중심으로 노인돌봄을 구성하는 양상, 가족돌봄자가 다양한 돌봄자원을 동원하며 조정하는 역할을 하는 돌봄혼합의 양상, 중증노인이 재가서비스를 이용하면서 형성되는 노인돌봄의 양상, 그리고 무엇보다 노인장기요양보험제도의 현실화과정에서 공식돌봄과 비공식돌봄을 일치시키는 변종(hybrid)방식으로 가족요양보호사 방식의 노인돌봄 양상이 그것이다. 본 연구는 표준화되고 공식화된 노인장기요양보험제도의 재가서비스 이용이 실제 다양한 노인의 욕구와 가족돌봄자원이라는 현실을 만나면서 다양한 노인돌봄의 양상으로 현실화되고 있는 것을 드러냈다는 데 의미를 가진다. 이는 노인돌봄이 공식, 비공식 돌봄의 결합으로 작동하고 있음을 증명하는 것이며 공식적 돌봄서비스의 공급이 실제 가족돌봄의 조건과 현실 위에서 이루어져야 한다는 것을 보여준다. 따라서 노인장기요양서비스 공급에서 노인이용자의 삶의 조건이자 공간으로서 가족과 지역사회의 다양한 특성이 포함되어야 한다는 시사점을 준다고 하겠다.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2020

Given that the demand for dental care for elderly individuals is expected to increase according to demographic changes, long-term roadmaps for the current health insurance system should be actively planned. The study aimed to investigate the health insurance system in Korea, compared to that of Japan, and suggest directions for the work of dental hygienists to provide basic data on efficient improvements in the health insurance system. Based on the collected data, the website was used to collect additional related data from Korea and Japan. The most common cause of death in Korea was malignant neoplasms, and most patients were hospitalized for diseases and disorders of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. Dental care covered by Korean medical insurance for individuals aged 65 years or older was treatment oriented, such as dentures and implants, while in Japan, treatment-intensive items, such as visiting a dental hygienist for guidance and provision of home-care professional oral hygiene treatment, were covered. The percentages of remaining teeth in Korea and the percentage of remaining 20 teeth were 68.9% in those aged 65 to 74 years and 51.2% in those aged 75 to 84 years in Japan. A strategy for promoting oral health among elderly individuals should be established, and a multilateral intervention approach is required to prevent oral problems from leading to deterioration of whole-body health. The role of dental hygienists in providing comprehensive assessment to elderly individuals is important. In order to provide systemic oral care, it is necessary to introduce oral care systems according to the national policy.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.451-461
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• 2021

Background: Readmissions related to lack of quality care harm both patients and health insurance finances. If the factors affecting readmission are identified, the readmission can be managed by controlling those factors. This paper aims to identify factors that affect readmissions of convalescent rehabilitation patients. Methods: Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service claims data were used to identify readmissions of convalescent patients who were admitted in hospitals and long-term care hospitals nationwide in 2018. Based on prior research, the socio-demographics, clinical, medical institution, and staffing levels characteristics were included in the research model as independent variables. Readmissions for convalescent rehabilitation treatment within 30 days after discharge were analyzed using logistic regression and generalization estimation equation. Results: The average readmission rate of the study subjects was 24.4%, and the risk of readmission decreases as age, length of stay, and the number of patients per physical therapist increase. In the patient group, the risk of readmission is lower in the spinal cord injury group and the musculoskeletal system group than in the brain injury group. The risk of readmission increases as the severity of patients and the number of patients per rehabilitation medicine specialist increases. Besides, the readmission risk is higher in men than women and long-term care hospitals than hospitals. Conclusion: "Reducing the readmission rate" is consistent with the ultimate goal of the convalescent rehabilitation system. Thus, it is necessary to prepare a mechanism for policy management of readmission.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.368-379
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• 2022

Background: This study aimed to establish a strategy to improve the poor working environment and working conditions among long-term healthcare workers in Korea. Methods: A total of 600 questionnaires with which long-term health care workers participated in the targeted base areas of each city and province nationwide were distributed directly and 525 responses were collected and 506 responses were analyzed. Surveys, on-site field visits, and in-depth interviews were also conducted to understand the working environment as well as conditions and establish a strategy for improving the working environment among long-term healthcare workers to understand the demands of working conditions and working conditions. Results: Korean long-term care workers firstly and mostly enumerated their risk factors for ill-health when lifting or moving elderly recipients directly by hand (69.9%), followed by increased physical workload with old beds, tools, and facilities (42.3%) in the workplaces, shortage of manpower (32%), and source of infection (30%). To improve the working environment as well as conditions, Korean long-term care workers considered improving low-wage structures, ergonomic improvements to solve excessive physical loads, and increasing various bonus payments as well as implementing the salary system, positive social awareness, and increasing resting time. Of 506 responses, 92.3% replied that the long-term care insurance system for the elderly should be developed to expand publicization at the national level. Conclusion: This study proposes to improve the low-wage structure of Korean long-term care workers, automation and improvement of facilities, equipment, and tools to eliminate excessive physical loads (beneficiary elderly lifting), and reduction of night labor.

• 한국노년학
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.549-565
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• 2017

노인장기요양제도의 최일선에서 서비스를 제공하는 요양보호사의 자질을 향상시키는 것은 궁극적으로 요양서비스의 질 향상에 기여한다. 이 연구는 요양보호사의 자질 향상을 위한 직무교육의 바람직한 방향을 찾기 위해 다양한 전문가와 이해당사자의 의견을 수렴하고 합의하고자 수행되었다. 연구 방법은 요양보호사와 교육운영주체 및 행정주체로 구성된 초점집단 인터뷰를 통해, 현 요양보호사 직무교육, 치매전문교육 체제 및 운영의 문제점을 도출하고 문제 인식을 공유함으로써, 현실적이고 실효성 있는 교육 개선방안을 도출하였다. 인터뷰 내용 분석 결과, 의견을 크게 '직무교육', '치매전문교육', '교육운영체제', '인력관리' 4개의 대범주로 분류하여 각 범주별 합의된 의견과 개별 의견을 제시하였다. 현장 중심의 교육내용에 대한 요구가 높았고, 실무 경험이 풍부한 강사진의 필요성을 제기하였다. 교육 기회가 확대되어야 하고, 그러기 위해서는 근무 여건 개선이 전제되어야 한다는 의견이 있었다. 교육운영체제 측면에서는 교육 주체와 교육 운영의 법적 근거가 필요하며, 정부, 요양기관 및 협회 간 역할 정립이 우선 되어야한다는 주장이 있었다. 현장 인력관리 측면에서 인력 수급 및 처우 개선 문제가 시급하다는 호소가 많았고, 처우문제는 곧 직무교육 참여에의 동기부여에 직접적인 영향을 주고 있었다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.47-69
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• 1990

한국(韓國)의 의료보험제도(醫療保險制度)는 일본제도(日本制度)를 거울삼아 서둘러 적용대상자(適用對象者)를 확대하여 1989년 전국민의료보험(全國民醫療保險)을 달성하였으나 제도(制度)와 효율적(效率的) 운영(運營)을 위한 장치가 결여되어 있고 직장(職場), 공교(公敎), 지역의보간(地域醫保間)에 형평문제(衡平問題) 제기되는 등 구조적인 과제를 안고 있다. 앞으로 제도(制度)의 개혁추진(改革推進) 노력으로 이 분야의 정책수립(政策樹立)과 집행(執行) 에 있어서 경직성을 줄이고 비용효과적(費用效果的)인 의료이용(醫療利用)을 도모해 나가지 못할 경우 낭비요인(浪費要因)이 점점 더 크게 불어나 국민의료비(國民醫療費)가 계속적으로 급속히 증대될 전망이다. 이와 같은 제도(制度)의 질적개선(質的改善)의 필요성에 비추어 최근 네덜란드가 시도하고 있는 제도개혁(制度改革)은 우리에게 여러가지 귀중한 교훈을 던져주고 있다고 판단된다. 네덜란드의 개혁안은 시장경쟁원리(市場競爭原理)를 폭넓게 수용하여 제도(制度)의 능률(能率)을 높이고 의료비(醫療費)를 절감하려는 취지를 담고 있다. 특히 의보가입자(醫保加入者)가 보험자(保險者)를 선택할 수 있고 또한 보험자(保險者)가 의료기관(醫療機關)을 선택할 수 있도록 관계(關係) 집단간(集團間) 상호경쟁(相互競爭)을 유도함으로써 효율(效率)을 증진시켜 나가겠다는 정책방향이 뚜렷히 제시되고 있어 우리의 주목을 끌고 있다.