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Health Promotion at Work: A Comparison of Policy and Practice Across Europe

  • Verra, Sanne E.;Benzerga, Amel;Jiao, Boshen;Ruggeri, Kai
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2019
  • Background: Promoting healthy lifestyles at work should complement workplace safety programs. This study systematically investigates current states of occupational health and safety (OHS) policy as well as practice in the European Union (EU). Methods: OHS policies of EU member states were categorized as either prevention or health promotion provisions using a manifest content analysis. Policy rankings were then created for each prevention and promotion. Rankings compared eight indicators from the European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks-2 data on prevention and promotion practices for each member state using Chi-square and probit regression analyses. Results: Overall, 73.1% of EU establishments take preventive measures against direct physical harm, and about 35.4% take measures to prevent psychosocial risks. Merely 29.5% have measures to promote health. Weak and inconsistent links between OHS policy and practice indicators were identified. Conclusion: National OHS policies evidently concentrate on prevention while compliance with health and safety practices is relatively low. Psychosocial risks are often addressed in national policy but not implemented by institutions. Current risk assessment methods are outdated and often lack psychosocial indicators. Health promotion at work is rare in policy and practice, and its interpretation remains preventive. Member states need to adopt policies that actively improve health and well-being at the workplace.

Policy Instruments for Public Private Partnership and Lessons from Case Study in Space (우주분야 공공민간협력을 위한 정책수단과 운영사례 연구)

  • Shin, Sangwoo;Kim, Eunjeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.343-354
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to contribute to an understanding of the policy instruments used by the public sector to ensure cooperation with the private sector in the delivery of space policy. Despite the importance of public and private partnership in recent years, there has been a lack of research on policy instruments. This study categorized 16 policy instruments into 4 types: purchase contracts, capital subsidies, research and development support and input subsidies. In addition, 5 cases of public private partnership in the United State, Europe and Japan were studied to explore policy implications to strength industrial competition.

An Inspection-Maintenance Policy for a System with Various Types of Maintenance (다수의 보수형태를 갖는 시스템에서의 검사.보수정책)

  • 이창훈;홍성희
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 1981
  • An inspection-maintenance policy is investigated for a system having various states. A policy is characterized by the type of maintenance and the next inspection time. Maintenance actions are classified into various types according to the depth of maintenance. Policy evaluation criterion is the expected cost accumulated up to the failure of the system. The problem is formulated as a Markov decision process and an optimal policy is found by using a policy improvement procedure. A numerical example illustrates the policy for a system having five states.

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A Study on Dilemma in Internet Addiction Prevention and Solution Policy for Adolescent (청소년 인터넷중독 예방 및 해소 정책의 딜레마 연구)

  • Kim, Ju-Kyoung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.23-34
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    • 2014
  • The objective for this research is to analyze the origin of the outbreak of a policy dilemma in the government's pursuance of policy aimed at tackling internet addiction among teenagers, as well as analyzing responsive strategy. Therefore, within this research and as the model of the dilemma being the analytical frame, the aspect of the dilemma has been analyzed through the transformation of contexts, conditions, policy values, alternatives, policy actors and policy decision makers. The major research results are as follows. First, each and every dilemma of 'transformation of context and condition', 'policy value and alternatives', 'policy actors' and 'policy decision makers' in processes of policy in preventing and resolving adolescent internet addiction, it acted as a decisive cause in forming the general dilemma of the policy. Second, the government's strategy in policy response within the policy dilemma conditions turned out to be a duplication of policy, occurrence of contradictions, typical response strategy and cyclical choices. Given these factors, the following characteristics have shown up as a result. First, as the problems in duplication of policy and contradictions occurred within a single policy, the government responded to this dilemma in a typical way, which brought about an even more serious dilemma. Second, the government put in effort to re-regulate two values (protection of adolescents and promotion of the video game industry), which are included in the response policy of adolescent Internet addiction. As a result, the policy dilemma has weakened with respect to the past. However, it has not solved the fundamental problems. This research, taking the results as a background, strives to provide implications for establishing a self-consistent groundwork, which combines policy values and vision for the government to pursue effective responsive policy on adolescent internet addiction, which is becoming more and more severe in the information society in which we live.

Factors and Implications for Creative Scientists: A Systems View of Creativity

  • Kim, Wangdong
    • STI Policy Review
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.33-50
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    • 2010
  • This study examines three factors - personal, academic features and governmental research environment - that influences the research of creative scientists based on a Systems Model of Creativity and tries to deprive policy implications. First, this study investigates the characteristics of creative scientists' research through a literature review. Next, it analyzes the features of academic characteristics, and creative research environments by the interviews of nine creative scientists in Korea. Lastly, it draws its implications and analyzes the limitations of this research.

Research Ethics Issues that Frequently Arise in Health Services Researches (보건학 연구에서의 주요 연구윤리 쟁점)

  • Sun-Hee Lee
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.241-242
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    • 2023
  • As part of efforts to internally strengthen the research ethics capacity of the Korean Academy of Health Policy and Management, we have compiled research ethics issues that are frequently encountered in public health researches. Firstly, when reusing research reports or dissertations as papers, efforts should be made to avoid unfair duplicate publication. Compliance with the institutional review board exemption process is required, and additional efforts should be devoted during the text recycling process to prevent self-plagiarism or unjust duplicate publication.

Policy Changes of the Research Council System of Science and Technology using Multiple Streams Framework (다중흐름모형을 이용한 과학기술 연구회제도의 정책변동 분석)

  • Jang, Mun Yeong;Yi, Chan Goo
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.858-887
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    • 2017
  • This study deals with the cases of policy changes of the research council system which exists since 1999 as a policy tool to achieve the goals for autonomy and independence of Government-funded Research Institutes (GRIs) in the field of science and technology and their cooperation and organic connection. The purpose of the study was to analyze through which process policies about the research council system have changed and whether they resulted in the successful achievements of the aimed policy goals, and to contribute to the effective policy implementation in the future. The Research Council System of Science and Technology has been undergoing a change for four government replacements (from Kim Dae-jung's Government to Park Geun-hye's Government). In this study, the major policy making factors and the policy change process of each government case are analyzed in comparison using Kingdon's multiple streams framework, as a result, their policy change type by the Hogwood and Peters's theory and the achievement of their policy goals of autonomy and responsibility were examined.

Changing Policy Trends in Research Ethics (연구윤리 환경 변화와 연구윤리 정책동향)

  • Lee, Sun-Hee
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.145-147
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    • 2021
  • The ethical environment in academic research is rapidly changing at a global level. Further, social expectations and public interest toward research ethics are also escalating in Korea. Understanding and applying ethical issues in academic research has become increasingly important. To conform to such changes in the ethical environment, the official journal of the Korean Academy of Health Policy and Management has been consistently establishing and modifying rules and principles regarding research ethics. For instance, we amended the submission guidelines to further address the policies for gendered innovations. For this editorial of the current issue, we would like to organize and share several ethical concerns, which recently gained considerable attention. We hope this review provides scholars with practical guidelines to comprehend and incorporate critical ethical issues into academic research.