• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.27-39
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• 2011

Many Koreans have been interested in health functional foods(HHFs). Use of health functional foods is growing rapidly. This study aims to identify the determinants of HFFs use focusing on health related factors. The subjects were 24,626 samples from Korea Health Panel in 2008. The subjects were divided into two group: under the 20 years old and 20 old and over. The logistic regression model was used to examine influence of health-related factors on use of HFFs for each group. About thirty percent of the subjects have used HFFs. The larger family size, higher education level of parents, more stable economic status and chronic diseases were positively related to use more HFFs in younger 20 years old. Higher education level, more stable economic status, chronic diseases were more likely to use HFFs in 20 years of age and over. Health related factors such as disability, chronic diseases, admission, and physician visit affect the use of HFFs in both groups. We confirmed that health related factors as well as socio-demographic and economic factors affect use of HFFs. In-depth knowledge about relationship between health related factors and HFFs is required.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.57-72
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• 2008

The propose of this study is to examine the economic stresses and coping strategies for elderly households depending on the variables of background, and to analyze the relations between these factors. Elderly households which satisfied the following criteria were recruited for participation: (a) reside in Seoul, or in the metropolitan area (b) live apart from their adult children after retirement and (c) ages over sixty. From September 20th, 2006 to November 30th, 2006, 296 were used for this research. First, the mean score of the economic stress level of elderly households was 2.87 out of 5, and the stress levels of income expenditure and asset debt were intermediate. The mean score of the economic coping strategy was 3.17 out of 5. In order to overcome economic stress, elderly households utilized reducing their expenditure, financial management, and re-employment. The level of elderly households' life satisfaction was 3.29 of 5 and the depression was 3.17 of 5. Second, there was a difference in accordance with the objective economic variables and the degree of the economic stress after the review of the variables of the elderly households and the coping strategy due to economic stress. The result shows that the households which had a low economic status and high economic stress from the objective viewpoint participated in more economic activities. Their reactions were to decrease the overall expenditure through reducing the expenditure rather than to manage the asset effectively through re-employment or to inaugurating a business. Third, I analyzed situational factors, economic stress, and economic coping strategy in order to compare relative contributors to psychological well-being through using regression. At the third phase in the process of analysis, the socio-psychological factors appeared to be significant factors contributing to psychological well-being. Regarding the stress caused by income expenditure increased, when elderly households were more concerned about reducing expenditure and re-employment, their feelings of depression increased.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.219-228
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• 2019

The forest of the Huaphanh Province (HP) has continued to decrease at 0.6% (10,560 ha) per year from 1992 to 2010. In the past few decades, the government of Laos and the Huaphanh Provincial Authority have been trying to address the root causes of deforestation. This study attempts to examine the factors effecting the decrease of the forest cover in the HP by analyzing the influence of the local socio-economic development and implementation of forest management policies on changes in the forest cover. The social data of the province focused on population growth and distribution between urban and rural areas including the number of poor people and the economic growth of three sectors, namely agriculture and forestry, industry, and service, while the implementation of the state forest management policy focused on the state forest management plan, tree plantation, forest land use planning and allocation to households, and shifting cultivation including annual upland rice and maize cultivation. In addition, government reports on socio-economic and rural development including poverty eradication of other provinces, where an increase in the forest cover was observed, were also collected and analyzed using qualitative and comparative analysis. The results from this study indicate that the decrease in forest cover in the Huaphanh Province appears to depend on a very slow economic growth and reduction in rural poverty of the province. The increase in the rural population in the province led to an increase in farm households and are as for shifting cultivation. As a result, forests were cleared leading to a decrease in the forest cover.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.357-366
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• 2014

Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of an emergency ambulance system and to investigate socio-economic and clinical characteristics associated with emergency ambulance service. Methods: Based on 2011 Korea health panel, unmet need and inappropriate use of emergency ambulance service were measured by Gibson in 1977. Furthermore, the factors associated with unmet need and inappropriate use of emergency ambulance service were identified by Fisher's exact tests and multiple logistic regression models. Results: Unmet need, defined as the proportion of emergency patients who clinically need ambulance transportation but do not receive it, was found to be 59.8%. Inappropriate use, defined as the proportion of emergency patient receiving ambulance care who did not clinically need it, was found to be 37.2%. There were statistically significant differences between appropriate and inappropriate groups in overall variables of socio-economic and clinical characteristics. Specifically, gender, age, relationship to household, and reasons of visiting emergency department (accident/disease) were statistically significant factors associated with appropriate use of emergency ambulance service. Conclusion: Unmet ambulance need is a useful measure for patients needs assessment, and inappropriate ambulance use is a valid criteria in judging the efficiency of emergency ambulance system. To improve and understand emergency ambulance system, unmet need and inappropriate use of emergency ambulance service should be more concerned.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.353-356
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• 2016

Background: This study used receiver operating characteristic curve to analyze Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) for glassy cell carcinoma data to identify predictive models and potential disparities in outcome. Materials and Methods: This study analyzed socio-economic, staging and treatment factors. For risk modeling, each factor was fitted by a generalized linear model to predict the cause specific survival. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) were computed. Similar strata were combined to construct the most parsimonious models. A random sampling algorithm was used to estimate modeling errors. Risk of glassy cell carcinoma death was computed for the predictors for comparison. Results: There were 79 patients included in this study. The mean follow up time (S.D.) was 37 (32.8) months. Female patients outnumbered males 4:1. The mean (S.D.) age was 54.4 (19.8) years. SEER stage was the most predictive factor of outcome (ROC area of 0.69). The risks of cause specific death were, respectively, 9.4% for localized, 16.7% for regional, 35% for the un-staged/others category, and 60% for distant disease. After optimization, separation between the regional and unstaged/others category was removed with a higher ROC area of 0.72. Several socio-economic factors had small but measurable effects on outcome. Radiotherapy had not been used in 90% of patients with regional disease. Conclusions: Optimized SEER stage was predictive and useful in treatment selection. Underuse of radiotherapy may have contributed to poor outcome.

• The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2012

PURPOSE. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of sociodemographic factors on quality of satisfaction towards denture treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS. One hundred subjects (filling inclusion criteria) who were wearing a denture for at least two months were enrolled and divided into five groups on the basis of sociodemographic variables (age, gender, literacy level, socio-economic and marital status). Questionnaires consisting of 38 questions (positive and negative attitude towards denture satisfaction) related to patients' perception of clinical outcome in different domains such as mastication, appearance, speech, comfort, health, denture care and social status were scored by the subjects. Questions reflecting positive attitude were scored as 2, 1, or 0 (yes, uncertain and no, respectively) and reversely for the negative questions. Statistical analysis was done by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (${\alpha}$= .05). RESULTS. Level of denture satisfaction was higher in age subgroup belonging to 45 - 65 years of age in relation to comfort, health and denture care. Female and male showed significant priority for denture treatment because of esthetic and function respectively. Level of satisfaction was statistically significant with literacy level. Upper high income group showed significantly higher level of satisfaction only in case of social status. Married group showed significantly higher satisfaction level only with comfort. CONCLUSION. Patients' sociodemographic variables were influential factors on denture satisfaction.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.984-993
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• 2016

This study aims to analyze the aquaculture farmers awareness of aquafarm management system influenced by socio-economic, environmental, and other factors using ordered logit model focused on aquafarm resting system. The survey data were obtained from 94 aquaculture farmers in Gyeongsangnamdo and Jeollanamdo province as a cross sectional data in 2015. This paper estimates the impact of socio-economic, environmental, and other characteristics, such as region, working period, productivity, environmental condition of fishing field, expected effectiveness of the system, and subject of responsibility on fishing field management. Based on the result, lastly, it suggests some implications to promote aquaculture farmers perception and participation in aquafarm resting system. The main results are as follows; the aquaculture farmers consciousness of the system is not affected by working period, productivity, and environmental condition of fishing field. But it is influenced by region, expected effectiveness of the system, and subject of responsibility on fishing field management. While it has a positive relationship with expected effectiveness of the system, it has a negative relationship with object who has responsibility on fishing field management.

• 한국BIM학회 논문집
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2019

Recent data development has made it possible to analyze each individual's daily commuting by using transportation card transaction. This research utilizes about 1 million observations from the subway line no.7 of Seoul metropolitan transportation data. By using such a massive dataset, the authors try to identify daily travel behavior of morning commute and its possible relationship between subway usage and socio-economic factors. There are 4 main types of users and their travel behavior, and top 15 stations with the most users for arrival and departure are selected. Accordingly, 15 stations have distinctive characteristics including population density and the number of businesses around stations. To identify this fact, the 4 most populated stations are selected and their socio-economic factors are examined. According to the analysis, the most departure stations are generally surrounded by hihgly populated residential areas, whereas the most arrival stations are stood within the job concentrated districts.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제100권3호
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• pp.327-333
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• 2011

본 연구는 등산객의 건강과 관련된 동기요인과 산림환경이 갖는 유인요인을 도출하고 이들 요인 간의 분석을 통하여 산림휴양공간에 대한 효율적인 관리방안을 제시하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 도봉산, 북한산, 관악산, 청계산을 찾은 등산객 440명에 대해 건강과 관련된 15개의 동기항목 및 11개의 유인항목을 설문조사한 결과, 등산동기요인으로 '질병치료 치유', '정신 사회적 건강', '신체적 건강' 등 3개 요인을, 등산유인요인으로는 '인문환경', '사회경제적 환경', '자연환경' 등 3개 요인을 도출하였다. 요인 간 영향관계 분석결과, 질병치료 치유요인과 신체적 건강요인에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 유인요인은 자연환경요인으로 나타났으며, 정신 사회적 건강요인에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 유인요인은 사회경제적 환경요인으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.371-379
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• 2015

본 연구는 우리나라 노인세대가 겪는 사회환경요인이 에너지 섭취 부족에 어떠한 영향을 주는지 알아보고자 제5기 1차년도 (2010) 국민건강영양조사 자료를 바탕으로 분석을 실시하였으며, 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1) 남녀 모두 연령이 70세 이상이고, 경제활동을 하지 않는 경우, 활동제한이 있는 경우 에너지 섭취 부족 비율이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 그 밖에 남자는 배우자는 없이 가족과 동거하는 경우, 학력, 그리고 가구소득, 여자는 자살생각 여부가 에너지 섭취량에 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었다. 2) 에너지 필요 추정량의 75% 미만으로 섭취하는 노인의 비율은 남자는 23.7% (196명), 여자는 31.1% (324명)으로 나타났으며 에너지 섭취량이 75% 미만인 그룹의 경우 탄수화물 섭취 비율이 유의적으로 높은 것으로 분석되었다. 3) 에너지 섭취가 부족한 그룹의 경우 남녀 모두 돼지고기와 소고기가 10위 안에 포함되지 않았고 배추김치와 된장이 20위 안의 주요 급원식품에 들었다. 4) 최종적으로 남녀 모두 학력 (남자: OR = 1.480, 여자: OR = 1.614)과 경제활동 여부 (남자: OR = 1.751, 여자: OR = 1.464)가 에너지 섭취 부족에 영향을 주는 요인으로 분석되었으며, 이 외에도 남자는 70세 이상의 고령 (OR = 1.475), 여자는 배우자 없이 가족과 동거하는 경우 에너지 섭취 부족일 확률이 1.496배로 나타났다. 이상의 연구 결과 노인의 에너지 섭취량은 노화로 인한 신체적 생리적 변화 외에도 노인이 속한 사회환경, 사회구조적 변화에 민감하게 반응한다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 효과적인 노년기 영양관련 정책 수립을 위해서는 사회환경의 변화에 따른 영양취약계층을 선별하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하므로, 본 연구에서 확인한 노인의 에너지 섭취 부족과 관련된 요인들은 노년기 영양정책을 계획하는 데 있어 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.