• 대한한의학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2013

Objectives: The aim of this survey was to investigate utilization, intended use, problems with and demand for medical devices by surveying members of the traditional Korean medical society. Methods: We distributed questionnaires to 13,957 traditional Korean medical doctors via e-mail, and received replies from 1,225. The questionnaire consisted of 4 multiple-choice questions for survey respondent information, 8 multiple-choice questions about the status of medical devices utilizing, and a short answer question about the demand for medical devices. Results: Use of medical devices in traditional Korean medical clinics is common. Diagnostic medical devices are mainly used to assess the patient's condition and to establish a close rapport with clients. In case of therapeutic medical devices, they are usually used for secondary treatment. Issues with traditional Korean medical devices currently in use were ineligibility for national health insurance, low reliability, uncertain validity, and high price. In development of traditional Korean medical equipment, the need for diagnostic medical devices was greater than for therapeutic, and the need for the recording and analysis of medical image data and visualization of medical information was great. Conclusions: There is growing demand for facilitating the development and commercialization of traditional Korean medical devices. To satisfy this demand, research on evaluation indicators that reflect functional and structural clinical information and how to clinically assess the indicators should proceed.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.29-57
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• 2001

Since the inauguration of the medical insurance system in 1977, the increasing medical expenses which can be menace to tile finance of the medical insurance system, have become major concern in the medical insurance field In Korea. This study focuses on the determinants of the medical expenses in the health insurance in Korea and analyzes the impact of these factors on the increase in the medical expenses. The empirical work is done using the pooled cross-section and time-series data of the medical insurance for the self-employeds and the industrial workers from the year 1995 to 1997. The result of this study shows that the main determinants of the medical expenses in the health insurance are the ratio of the population of the aged to the total population, the frequency of the utilization, number of doctors per capita and the regime changes. Although the increasing trend in the medical expenses seems to be unavoidable, we probably need to add some efficiency to the medical expenses by suppressing the supply and the utilization of the unnecessary medical services. The fee-for-service reimbursement system of today can't suppress the supply of the unnecessary medical services effectively. So we need to convert the present fee-for-service system into DRG's which is known to reduce the medical costs. The increase in the medical expenses comes from a lot of factors. Therefore, we should develop more systematic and comprehensive measures to control the soaring medical expenses in consideration of the various factors such as demand, supply, and the organizational side of the medical system.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.202-209
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• 2018

Health care has two different facets. One is commodity and another is a right of human being. Health care as a commodity is utilized by demand approach in market. Demand is determined by economic factors such as price and income. From the last third of the 19th century until the early 1920s, priority of sickness insurance was replacing the income that workers lost as a result of illness and injury. By the 1920s, the capacity of applied biological and medical science was remarkably developed. Development of medical science stimulated the cost of medical care, and the burden of increased medical care cost required new role of medical care security system. In 1942, Beveridge report was published in United Kingdom, and health care was considered as a right of human being. In 1948, United Nations declared heath care as a right in the Universal Declaration of Human Right. In most countries introduced new medical care security policy based on health care as a right. The viewing health care as a commodity must be shifted toward need based care as a right. Need were understood to rest on demographic, epidemiological, scientific, and medical knowledge factors. Bring needed care to the population could best be achieved institutionally by a hierarchy of provider organizations, guided by planning bodies, which would provide comprehensive benefits. In Korea, health care in social health insurance (SHI) is considered as a commodity not a right. However, health policies under SHI must be need approach based on health care as a right. Mismatch between health policies and ideology of SHI made big troubles. It is important to realize ideology of SHI for good health policies.

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.44-55
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• 2019

Purpose: To investigate whether changes in Medical Aid (MA) status are associated with unmet need and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). Methods: Data from the 2010 to 2014 Korea Health Panel (KHP) were used. The impact of changes in annual MA status ('MA to MA,' 'MA to MA Exit,' 'MA Exit to MA,' and 'MA Exit to MA Exit') on unmet need (all-cause and financial) and CHE (10% and 40% of household capacity to pay) were examined using the generalized estimating equation (GEE) model. Analysis was conducted separately for MA type I and II individuals. Results: In 1,164 Medical Aid type I individuals, compared to the 'MA to MA' group, the 'MA to MA Exit' group had increased likelihoods of all-cause and financial unmet need. This group also showed higher likelihoods of CHE at the 10% standard. The 'MA Exit to MA Exit' group showed increased likelihoods at the 10% and 40% CHE standards. In 852 type II recipients, the 'MA to MA Exit' group had higher likelihoods of CHE at the 10% standard. Conclusions: Type 1 MA exit beneficiaries had higher likelihoods of all-cause and financial unmet need, along CHE at the 10% standard. Type I 'MA Exit to MA Exit' beneficiaries also showed higher likelihoods of CHE at the 10% and 40% standards. In type II recipients, MA exit beneficiaries had higher likelihoods of CHE at the 10% standard. The results infer the importance of monitoring MA exit beneficiaries as they may be vulnerable to unmet need and CHE.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.1175-1181
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• 2015

본 연구는 국민건강영양조사의 제5기 원시자료를 이용하여 구강검진조사에 참여한 19세 이상 성인을 대상으로 주관적 구강건강상태와 실제 검진조사 결과의 치료필요도 조사를 비교 분석하였다. 상악과 하악 좌.우 대구치의 치료 필요도를 조사한 결과, 상악의 좌,우측 제1대구치와 제2대구치에서 본인 스스로 구강건강상태가 좋지 않다고 응답한 경우에 오히려 치료가 불필요한 경우가 90% 이상으로 매우 높았고, 하악의 좌,우 제1대구치와 제2대구치에서도 역시 같은 결과를 보였다. 또한 상.하악의 좌우 제1대구치와 제2대구치 모두에서 본인 스스로 구강건강상태를 매우 좋다고 인지한 경우는 전체의 10% 수준으로 매우 낮게 나타났으며, 구강건강상태가 좋지도 나쁘지도 않다는 응답인 '보통'에는 치료가 불필요하다는 검진결과가 96% 이상이었다.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.623-630
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• 2014

Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate the perception and needs for medical communication course in the dental hygiene students. Methods : A self-reported questionnaire was filled out by 700 dental hygiene students after receiving informed consent from October 30 to December 20, 2013. Results : A total of 652 completely answered questionnaires were analyzed. The medical communication course proved to be very important necessary that 46.6% of the students said 'probably needed.' Only 5.1% of the students answered the course is not necessary. Conclusions : The majority of the students want the medical communication course. It is desirable that we need to set up a medical communication training and systemic course.

• 의학교육논단
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.10-14
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• 2015

The mission of the modern medical school includes education, research, and patient care. The clinical clerkship is an important part of the core curriculum, and hospital facilities are needed for the clinical clerkship. However, unfortunately, education has moved to the periphery during the past several decades because of the dominance of research and patient care. This may lead to obstacles in the education of future physicians in the long term. To promote their education mission, teaching hospitals need to recognize and share the importance of this mission. In addition to the certification of teaching hospitals, a new paradigm for teaching hospitals should be introduced to produce a high quality clinical clerkship and postgraduate medical education. The relevant government departments need to allocate and expand financial support to medical schools and teaching hospitals, and to unify supervision of basic and postgraduate medical education.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.85-95
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• 2010

This study was to understand perception level and education need on hospice, and to development effective education contents of hospice for medical students. Descriptive survey research design was used. Participants were 426 and the data collecting period was from July. 22. to July. 29. in 2008. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, chi-square test, Wilcoxon's signed rank test. The participants experiencing in hospice education program demonstrated higher perception level and education need about hospice than non-participants. Also, The participants experiencing in hospice education showed more concerning on effective education contents of hospice than non-participants. Therefore, hospice education program must be prepared in a continual and systematic way in order to provide for effective education of medical students in Korea.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.245-247
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• 2019

Although 19 years have passed since the enforcement of the Framework Act on Health and Medical Services, the Plans for Development of Health and Medical Services has not been established. This Plan is a 5-year basic long-term plan that covers the whole of health and medical services. This Plan should point to the direction of 30 long-term plans of healthcare, and this Plan should serve as a combination and coordination of 30 long-term plans and 22 related laws. The United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan have established long-term healthcare plans (4-, 10-, and 20-year plans, respectively). The long-term health plan of the United States has been approached bottom-up, those of the United Kingdom and Japan have been approached top-down. The rapid environmental changes that Korea is and will be experiencing emphasize urgently the need for establishing the Plan for Development of Health and Medical Services.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제27권12호
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• pp.251-258
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• 2022

본 연구는 응급구조학과 학생들의 전공 교육과정에 대한 수행도, 중요도 및 요구도를 분석하여 응급구조학 전공자의 학습 역량을 강화하는데 기초 자료를 제공하고자 하였다. 연구대상은 충남지역의 3개 대학 응급구조학과 학생 217명으로 자료 수집기간은 2021년 12월 13일부터 12월 24일까지이며 1급 응급구조사의 직무 기반 핵심 역량을 바탕으로 구조화된 설문지에 응답한 자료를 분석하였다. 연구결과 응급구조학과 학생들의 학습 역량 강화를 위해서 Borich 요구도가 높은 '구급차량 관리 교육', '졸업 후 전문성 유지를 위한 교육', '병원 내 환자 감시 교육'과 LF 모델의 최우선 영역에 해당하는 '의료지도, 인계 교육', '내과적 응급환자 처치 교육', '병원 내 환자 감시교육', '병원 내 응급환자 진료보조 교육'에 해당하는 교과과정의 보강이 필요하다고 판단된다.