• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.206-225
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• 2012

General status of pediatric dentistry in Korea is to conduct vigorous academic activities and specialized medical care centering the Korean Association of Pediatric Dentistry (KAPD) that has about 1,000 pediatric dentists as members, pediatric dentistry departments of 11 Colleges of Dentistry, numbers of pediatric dentistry training institutions and private clinics specialized in children. From 1996, the accredited pediatric dentists were produced by the KAPD and from 2008, the state began to produce the accredited pediatric dentists. Since then, doctors with expertise in pediatric care had opened private clinics in addition to the university hospitals, it became the basis of a momentum to deepen the specialty of pediatric dentistry. The Dentistry community of Korea is going through rapid and profound changes recently, and the underlying reasons for such changes can be classified largely into a few categories: (1) Decreasing population and structural changes in population (2) Increase in numbers of dentists, (3) Changes in the pattern of dental diseases and (4) Changes in medical environment. In Korea, the children population in the age range of 0 ~ 14 years old had been decreased by 2 million in 2010 compared to that of 2000 due to reduction of birth rate. The current population of children in the age range of 0 ~ 4 years old in 2010 takes up 16.2% of the total population, but it is estimated that such percentage would decrease to 8.0% by 2050. Such percentage is largely behind the estimated mean global population of 19.6% by 2050. On the other hand, the number of dentists had been largely increased from 18,000 in 2000 to 25,000 in 2010. And it is estimated that the number will be increased to 41,000 by 2030. In addition, the specialized personnel of Pediatric dentistry had been shown as increased by 2.5 times during past 10 years. For the changes in the pattern of dental diseases, including dental caries, each df rate of 5 years old children and 12 years old children had been decreased by 21.9% and 16.7% respectively in 2010 compared to 2000. Each df Index also had been decreased by 2.5 teeth and 1.2 teeth respectively. The medical expenditure of Korea is less than that of OECD and more specifically, the expenditure from the National Health Plan is less than OECD but the expenditure covered by households is larger than OECD. These facts indicate that it is considered as requiring the coverage of the national health plan to be reinforced more in the future and as such reinforcement needs continuous promotion. In medical examination pattern of Pediatric dentistry, the preventive and corrective treatment were increased whereas the restorative treatment was decreased. It is considered that such change is caused from decrease of dental caries from activation of the prevention project at national level. For the restorative treatment, the restorations in use of dental amalgam, pre-existing gold crowning and endodontic treatment had been decreased in their proportion while the restorative treatment in use of composite resin had been increased. It is considered that such changes is caused by the change of demands from patients and family or guardians as they desired more aesthetic improvement along with socio-economic growth of Korean society. Due to such changes in dentistry, the pediatric dentistry in Korea also attempts to have changes in the patterns of medical examination as follows; It tends to implement early stage treatment through early diagnosis utilizing various diagnostic tools such as FOTI or QLF. The early stage dental caries so called white spot had been included in the subjects for dental care or management and in order to do so, the medical care guidelines essentially accompanied with remineralization treatment as well as minimally invasive treatment is being generalized gradually. Also, centering the Pediatric dentists, the importance of caries risk assessment is being recognized, in addition that the management of dental caries is being changed from surgical approach to internal medicinal approach. Recently, efforts began to emerge in order to increase the target patients to be managed by dentists and to expand the application scope of Pediatric dentistry along with through such changes. The interest and activities of Pediatric dentists which had been limited to the medical examination room so far, is now being expanded externally, as they put efforts for participating in the preventive policy making process of the community or the state, and to support the political theories. And also opinions are being collected into the direction that the future- oriented strategic political tasks shall be selected and researches as well as presentations on the theoretical rationale of such tasks at the association level.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

도시 내 유휴지 및 하천, 도로변과 같은 공공시설부지는 오랫동안 도시민에게 도시농업 공간(텃밭)을 제공해 왔다. 그러나 유휴지와 공공시설부지에서 이루어지는 대부분의 경작은 불법이어서 텃밭 이용자와 토지소유자 그리고 공공시설 관리자간의 갈등을 유발하고, 도시경관의 질 저하, 환경오염, 공공시설물 훼손 등의 문제를 야기하고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구는 도시 내 공공시설부지 등에서 무단으로 경작되는 도시농업을 양성화할 수 있는 방안 제시를 목적으로 도시지역에 다양한 형태로 산재한 텃밭의 분포 및 이용 실태를 조사 분석하였다. 조사는 대구광역시 시지지역을 사례지로 선정하여 현장 조사, 텃밭 이용자 및 주말농장 운영기관 담당자와의 면담을 통해 이루어졌다. 연구 결과, 도시텃밭은 접근이 쉬운 주택가 인근의 개발이 제한된 녹지지역에 주로 분포했으며, 주거지에 인접할수록 텃밭의 분포수가 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 토지이용 유형별로는 농경지에 분포하는 텃밭의 비율이 월등히 높았으나, 도로, 하천 등 공공시설부지에 분포하는 비율도 농경지의 3분의 1을 상회하였다. 텃밭을 경작하는 사람들 중 개인 소유 토지를 무임 경작하는 사람들의 비율이 가장 높았고, 국 공유지 무단경작 비율이 다음으로 높았다. 도시 내 유휴지와 하천, 도로, 철도 등 공공시설이 위치하는 국 공유지를 텃밭으로 무임, 무단 경작하는 사람들 대부분은 노인으로 나타나, 노인 여가 공간으로서의 도시텃밭의 잠재력을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 조사대상지가 특정 지역에 국한된 점, 텃밭의 규모를 실측하지 못한 점 등의 한계가 있으나, 도시텃밭의 분포 및 이용 특성을 파악하여 불법으로 경작되는 도시농업의 양성화 및 제도적 수용 필요성을 제기했다는 데, 그 의의가 있다고 생각된다.