• 보건행정학회지
• /
• 제32권2호
• /
• pp.205-215
• /
• 2022

Background: The purpose of this study is to identify the factors infecting the medical care utilization from a new perspective by newly classifying the categories of administrative districts using the urban decline index and medical vulnerability index as indicators. Methods: This study targeted 150,940 people who used medical services using the 2015 cohort database (DB), 2010-2015 urban regeneration analysis index DB, and 2014-2015 public health and medical statistics DB. The decline of the region was classified using the urban decline index typed using k-means clustering and the medical vulnerability index typed using the quantile score calculation. Regression analysis was performed 3 times with medical expenditure, length of stay, and the number of outpatient visits as dependent variables. Results: There were 37 stable region (47.4%), 29 health vulnerable region (37.2%), and 12 decline region (15.4%). The health vulnerable region had lower medical expenditure, fewer outpatient visits, and a higher length of stay than the stable region. The decline region was all higher than the stable region but had no significant effect. Conclusion: The factors that cause the health disparity between regions are not only factors related to individual health behavior but also environmental factors of the local community. Therefore, there is a need for a systematic alternative that properly considers the resources within the community and reflects the characteristics of the population.

• 문화기술의 융합
• /
• 제8권3호
• /
• pp.385-392
• /
• 2022

본 연구의 목적은 의료취약지 특히 서남권 도서지역의 의료불평등 정도를 파악하고 개선점을 마련해 보고자 시도되었다. 연구방법으로는 '의료취약', '의료불평등', '도서지역' 등을 키워드로 하여 체계적 문헌고찰을 하여 14편을 분석하였으며, 또한 공공의료전달체계에 있는 의료인 9명에게 포커스그룹 혹은 심층 인터뷰(FGI)를 시행하여 현황 및 요구도를 파악하였다. 연구결과로는 서남권 특히 도서지역의 의료불평등을 확인할 수 있었으며, FGI통해 전문인력의 부족, 행정지원체계의 부족 등을 확인할 수 있었다. 연구의 결론으로 도서지역의 취약성을 개선하기 위한 적극적 행정적 지원은 물론 공공의료의 효율성이 높아 질 수 있는 현실적인 방안이 마련되어져야 함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
• /
• 제30권7호
• /
• pp.962-966
• /
• 2020

Monitoring the mutation dynamics of human severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is critical in understanding its infectivity, virulence and pathogenicity for development of a vaccine. In an "age of mobility," the pandemic highlights the importance and vulnerability of regionalization and labor market interdependence in Southeast Asia. We intend to characterize the genetic variability of viral populations within the region to provide preliminary information for regional surveillance in the future. By analyzing 142 complete genomes from South East Asian (SEA) countries, we identified three central variants distinguished by nucleotide and amino acid changes.

• 보건행정학회지
• /
• 제33권1호
• /
• pp.55-64
• /
• 2023

Background: Despite the various activities of the regional public hospitals, discussions are being made as to whether or not to continue due to the issue of financial deficit. Therefore, the main factors affecting the fiscal deficit were analyzed with 10-year data. Methods: This study is a panel analysis that analyzed the characteristics of 34 regional public hospitals and influencing factors on medical benefits for 10 years from 2010 to 2019. First, we analyze the determinants of medically vulnerable areas set by the government, analyze the trend of medical profit per 100 beds and medical profit rate from 2010 to 2019, and identify the factors that affect them. Results: Differences in medical profit per 100 beds and medical profit-to-medical profit rate were caused by market share representing regional characteristics, and both indicators improved as the number of outpatients increased. The important influencing variables are the number of doctors and nurses, and both indicators improve when there are specialists, but medical benefits decrease as the number of doctors increases when judged by the number of people per 100 beds. In addition, the number of nurses per 100 beds does not contribute to medical profit and has a negative effect on the medical profit ratio. Conclusion: As only regional characteristics were taken into account for medically vulnerable areas, operational characteristics need to be considered. The greatest impact on the finances of local medical centers is the proper staffing of doctors and nurses, and their efficient arrangement is the most important factor in financial stability.

• 생물정신의학
• /
• 제19권3호
• /
• pp.140-145
• /
• 2012

Objectives : ST8SIA2 (ST8 alpha-N-acetyl-neuraminide alpha-2, 8-sialyltransferase 2 gene) is located at 15q26, a susceptibility locus for schizophrenia. Some previous research had indicated that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the promoter region of ST8SIA2 were associated with schizophrenia in Japanese and Chinese populations. We investigated the association between SNPs in the promoter region of ST8SIA2 and schizophrenia in the Korean population. Methods : The study subjects were 190 Korean patients with schizophrenia and 190 healthy controls. We performed allelic, genotypic, and haplotypic association analyses for rs3759916, rs3759915 and rs3759914 of ST8SIA2. All genotypes were determined by direct sequencing. Results : In the genotype-based analysis, rs3759914 showed a nominally significant association with schizophrenia under recessive genotypic model (p = 0.047). However, this association did not remain statistically significant after correction for multiple testing. Both allelic and haplotype analyses did not show any significant association. Conclusions : These findings suggest that ST8SIA2 does not play a major role in the susceptibility to schizophrenia in the Korean population. Further studies with a larger number of subjects are required to definitively rule out minor effects of this gene on schizophrenia vulnerability.

• 한국산림과학회지
• /
• 제109권4호
• /
• pp.446-453
• /
• 2020

이 연구는 AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) 분석기법을 활용하여 사방댐 대상지 선정과 관련된 인자의 중요도를 정량적으로 산정하고, 이를 시범 적용함으로써 사방댐 대상지 선정과 관련된 기초자료를 제시하고자 하였다. AHP 분석을 위해 평가항목 및 평가인자를 구분한 결과 평가항목은 3개(위험성, 취약성 및 시공성), 평가인자는 총 12개(위험성 10개, 취약성 및 시공성 각 1개), 평가기준은 평가인자별 2~6개로 선정되었다. 선정된 평가항목, 평가인자 및 평가기준별 중요도를 활용하여 평가기준별 상대적 중요도를 산출한 결과, 취약성 항목인 의료시설, 노유자시설, 교육시설 및 민가 등이 타 항목보다 높게 나타났다. 사방댐 타당성평가 적격 판정지역의 중요도를 강원도 내 사방댐 미설치유역 24,431개소에 적용한 결과, 사방댐 배치가 가능한 산림유역은 전체 산림유역의 35.2%에 해당하는 8,601개소로 나타났다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• /
• 제46권5호
• /
• pp.261-270
• /
• 2013

Objectives: This study investigated the socio-demographic characteristics and medical causes of death among meteorological disaster casualties and compared them with deaths from all causes. Methods: Based on the death data provided by the National Statistical Office from 2000 to 2011, the authors analyzed the gender, age, and region of 709 casualties whose external causes were recorded as natural events (X330-X389). Exact matching was applied to compare between deaths from meteorological disasters and all deaths. Results: The total number of deaths for last 12 years was 2 728 505. After exact matching, 642 casualties of meteorological disasters were matched to 6815 all-cause deaths, which were defined as general deaths. The mean age of the meteorological disaster casualties was 51.56, which was lower than that of the general deaths by 17.02 (p<0.001). As for the gender ratio, 62.34% of the meteorological event casualties were male. While 54.09% of the matched all-cause deaths occurred at a medical institution, only 7.6% of casualties from meteorological events did. As for occupation, the rate of those working in agriculture, forestry, and fishery jobs was twice as high in the casualties from meteorological disasters as that in the general deaths (p<0.001). Meteorological disaster-related injuries like drowning were more prevalent in the casualties of meteorological events (57.48%). The rate of amputation and crushing injury in deaths from meteorological disasters was three times as high as in the general deaths Conclusions: The new information gained on the particular characteristics contributing to casualties from meteorological events will be useful for developing prevention policies.

• 농촌계획
• /
• 제24권4호
• /
• pp.147-155
• /
• 2018

The purpose of this study was to identify vulnerable area of emergency medical care. In the existing method, the emergency medical vulnerable area is set as an area that can not reach the emergency room within 30 minutes. In this study, we set up an area that can not reach within 30 minutes including the accessibility of 119 emergency center. To accomplish this, we obtained information on emergency room and 119 emergency center through Open API and constructed road network using digital map to perform accessibility analysis. As a result, 509 emergency room are located nationwide, 78.0% of them are concentrated in the region, 1,820 emergency center are located, and 61.0% of them are located in rural areas. The average access time from the center of the village to the emergency room was analyzed as 15.3 minutes, and the average access time considering the 119 emergency center was 21.8 minutes, 6.5 minutes more. As a result of considering the accessibility of 119 emergency center, vulnerable areas increased by 2.5 times, vulnerable population increased by 2.0 times, and calculating emergency medical care vulnerable areas, which account for more than 30% of the urban unit population, it was analyzed that it increased from 17 to 34 cities As a further study, it will be necessary to continuously monitor and research the real-time traffic information, medical personnel, medical field, and ambulance information to reflect the reality and to diagnose emergency medical care in the future.

• 대한한의학원전학회지
• /
• 제25권1호
• /
• pp.89-115
• /
• 2012

Objective : Blood disease is common these days due to modern man's excessiveness in Yang heat (陽熱) and vulnerability of the Eum blood(陰血). This exposes them to warmheat/ dampness-heat diseases, where pathogenic heat easily penetrates the blood dimension(血分) creating stagnated blood(瘀血). Consequently, pathogenic symptoms in the collateral vessels increase, making it crucial to understand the pathogenic mechanism of the disease. Method : This paper examines the condition and region of the collateral vessel diseases(CVD) according to the blood diseases of Onbyeong, by analyzing each prescription's matching symptom. The disease in question in this paper is 'stagnated blood fixated in the collateral vessels'. Therefore diseases with stagnated blood in the Yang collaterals and Viscera collaterals or viscera themselves from the chapter of "On-Yeok-Ron(溫疫論)", and < Dry Blood-DaeWhangJaChungWhan(大黃蟅蟲丸) > chapter of "Geum-Gue-Yo-Rak(金匱要略)", were examined respectively. Result & Conclusion : The process of CVD according to the blood diseases of Onbyeong can be summarized as follows. First, bleeding in the Yang and Bowel collaterals, then stagnation in the Yang and Bowel collaterals, and finally stagnation in the viscera collaterals or Liver itself. The refractory nature of blood stagnation symptoms of the collateral vessels is mainly due to the characteristics of the collateral vessel itself. In structure, they are very narrow and small, situated at the most terminal part of the body where it is difficult for the Jeong Gi(精氣) to reach. Also, as they are symptomatic of degeneration of Jeong Gi, the root of the disease is very deep. Therefore to resolve blood stagnation in the cases of Ju-Gaek-Gyo and Dry Blood, general approaches using 'Gi communication(行氣)' or 'Blood vitalizing(活血)' medicinals will not suffice. Special medicinals such as crustacean and insects need to be appropriately applied.

• 지적과 국토정보
• /
• 제54권1호
• /
• pp.49-61
• /
• 2024

현재 우리나라는 전체 인구 감소와 더불어 수도권 집중 현상과 지역개발정책의 불균형으로 인한 지방 소멸이 한국 사회의 주요 문제로 대두되고 있다. 인구 피라미드의 형태가 급변하는 데에 반해 주민의 생활이나 도시기능 유지에 필수적인 물리적 요소인 기반 시설은 변화의 속도를 따라가지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 특히 종합의료시설은 국민의 생활 편익에 밀접하게 연관되어 있어 지역적으로 유연한 대처와 시설 활용 계획이 요구된다. 사회적 약자인 노인과 소아청소년의 의료 공급 부족 문제는 인구 고령화, 저출산과 맞물려 국가 사회적 차원의 문제가 될 수 있다. 이에 인구감소 지역 중 하나인 강원도의 의료 서비스 공급의 거점이 될 잠재력이 있는 춘천시 내 의료 접근성과 그 격차를 분석하고 의료취약지역을 알아보는 것이 필요하다. 본 연구는 강원도 춘천시의 의료 공급 수준을 알아보기 위하여 2SFCA 방법론을 사용하였다. 2SFCA는 수요량과 공급량을 위치로서 반영한다는 점에서 환자와 의료진의 공간 접근성을 파악하는 의료연구에 적합하므로 병원의 추가적 배치를 결정하는 과정에 활용할 수 있다. 2SFCA 결과로 국지적 공간 자기상관을 판단할 수 있는 이변량 LISA 분석(Local Indicators of Spatial Association)을 통해 환자 수요와 병원 및 전문의 공급을 고려한 춘천시 의료취약지도를 도출하였다. 공간적 불평등 수준을 알아보기 위하여 최종적으로는 로렌츠 곡선에 기초한 춘천시 의료 접근성에 대해 지니계수를 계산하였다. 분석 결과와 의료 취약지 선정에 기반하여 춘천 지역에서 공간 입지 접근성을 고려한 노인과 소아청소년에 대한 병원 추가 신설의 구체적 위치와 전문의 추가 배치 지역을 모색하는 데에 활용될 수 있다.