• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제54권11호
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• pp.429-435
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• 2011

Although Korean population has been growing steadily during the past four decades, the nation is rapidly becoming an aging society because of its declining birth rate combined with an increasing life expectancy. In addition, Korea has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world due to fewer married couples, advanced maternal age, and falling birth rate. The prevalence of low birth weight infants and multiple births has been increased compared with the decrease in the birth rate. Moreover, the number of congenital anomalies is expected to increase due to the advanced maternal age. In addition, the number of interracial children is expected to increase due to the rise in the number of international marriages. However, the maternal education level is high, single-mother birth rate is low, and the gender imbalance has lessened. The number of overweight babies has been decreased, as more pregnant women are receiving adequate prenatal care. Compared to the Asian average birth weight, the average birth weight is the highest in Asia. Moreover, the rate of low birth weight infants is low, and infant mortality is similarly low across Asia. Using birth data from Statistics Korea and studies of birth outcomes in Korea and abroad, this study aimed to assess the changes in maternal and infant characteristics associated with birth outcomes during the past four decades and identify necessary information infrastructures to study countermeasures the decrease in birth rate and increase in low birth weight infants in Korea.

• 복식
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• 제19권
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• pp.195-207
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• 1992

palestein had been a part of Islamic culture before Israel was established after World War II and their daily lives had been totally affected by the Korean, Consequently, the idea of clothing, types of women clothes and it's characteristics reflected in the Koran have been studied and the results are as follows: First, the idea of clothing reflected in the Koran emphasizes the equality of the sexed and treats women as men's equal partner. Second, in the Koran there is almost no reference on men's clothes, but it only recommends women to wear veil to cover their faces and bodies when they go out. The Koran argues that it is not to restrict women but to protect them. Third, due to it's geographical location, Palestinian clothes had been affected by it's neighboring areas, and the gumbaz-a kind of coat - is one of the examples of Turkish origin. In the beginning the gumbaz had been worn by upper class Palestinian women and subsquently by urban Nazareth women. They used to slip on gumbaz on their heads and shoulders. Fourth, In Palestein they wore jacket over coat or dress. The emboridered jacket from Bethlehem was mostly worn their wedding dress. Fifth, the headdress and face-veil in Palestein are the most unique ones and married women decorated headdress and face-veil with gold or silver coins which they received as wedding presents, and wrapped all their coin decorations in black cloth when husbands are dead. Bedouins decorated not only with coins but also with shells, buttons, stones and beads to articulate their chastity, social status, aestheticism, religion and magic.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.271-279
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• 2016

In the modern society, social activities of married women are increasing along with the economic growth, which leads to low birth rates of the situation where most people give birth to only one or two children. Korea in particular records one of the lowest birth rates among many other nations of the world. Despite the situation where overall industrial consumer economy is not good, baby goods market is becoming more luxurious and diversified, and its scale is also growing. Desires of young parents in their 20s and 30s for their children leads to consumption desires of luxurious baby goods, and despite the fact that their taste level rises by easily gaining access to immense baby information via the Internet, our nation's baby furniture market is unreasonably lacking the ability to satisfy the needs of such consumers. Furniture culture of our nation today is based on the stand-up culture of the West. However, analyzing the life culture inside our homes, stand-up and sit-down cultures of the West and the East are coexisting complexly. Such life pattern can be more easily found in households with babies. As such, baby furniture that satisfies our unique life culture and has quality, design and price competitiveness is desperately needed. In such market state, this study is expected to make economic and cultural accomplishments by focusing on the newly embossing baby furniture market and developing products, delivering them to consumers to open new markets and developing into an industry.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.95-100
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• 1986

During the past decade great advance has been made in contraceptive technology. The development and subsequent modification of oral steroid contraceptive together with the improved design of other contraceptives have tremendously altered the contraceptive practise of complete throughout the world. At the present time one of most complex issue is the population explosion. In Korea the population growth rate is remarkably decreased from 3% in 1960s to 1.7% in 1984. Increasing proportion of women practising family planning and improved contraceptive methods have contributed on remarkable reduction of fertility rate. But still about half of married women not involved in family planning practise. One of the reasons why that so many women haven't participated in family planning should be undesirable side effects or inconvenience of currently available contraceptives. So we need more research to develop newer, safer and more effective contraceptive to solve the problems. According to recent report on the family planning program achievement in Korea, sterilization (male and female) is most popular, leading contraceptive method (330 cases/1000 fertile persons) and the I.U.D. (167.5/1000), condom (132.9/1000) and oral pill (61.1/1000) were followed by in the order of favorite choice of contraceptive (KIPH, Family planning evaluation report, 1984; KIPH Family plan Service Statistics, 1981-1984). In present paper the present status and knowledge of contraceptives will be summarized.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.217-220
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• 2015

Background: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world and by far the most frequent cancer among women. Objective: This study was conducted to observe the effect of progressive relaxation exercises on anxiety and comfort level of breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Materials and Methods: A control group pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental model was applied with experimental (30) and control (30) groups, who agreed to participate in this study. Data collection was with the "Personnel Information Form, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and General Comfort Scale". Results: The average age of the patients that participated in the study was $49.1{\pm}7.96$ years. Eighty-three point three percent (n=25) of the patients in the experiment group and 86.7 (n=26) percent of patients in control group were married. Patient state of anxiety post-test mean scores were $36.2{\pm}8.21$ in the experimental group and $43.4{\pm}7.96$ in the control group, the difference being statistically significant (p<0.05). The general comfort scale post-test mean scores were $149.5{\pm}13.9$ in the experimental group and $137.7{\pm}15.0$ in the control group, again statistically significant (p<0.05). Conclusions: Progressive relaxation exercises positively affect patient comfort and anxiety levels in Turkey.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.508-517
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• 2001

The purposes of this study are to investigate marital satisfaction according to demographic characteristic, division of household labor, and awareness of gender discrimination, and to explore influences of demographic and other variables on marital satisfaction. Social statistics survey data which collected in 1998 by ministry of statistics were used for secondary analysis of this study. Marital satisfaction was measured by questionnaire which was consisted in 7 items, including satisfaction with general family life, relationship with their own parent and parent-in-law, relationship with brothers and sisters, relationship with their children, and economic living status. These are measured by 5-point Likert scale. Independent variables are age, education, employment status, having their own house or not, No. of children under school age, parents living or not, perception of sexual discrimination, and division of household labor. The findings of this study show that there are significant differences of marital satisfaction by all independents variables, and all independent variables except employment have significant influences on marital satisfaction. People who are younger, received higher education, have their own house, have more children under schoolage and whose parent are living in the world, show higher marital satisfaction. The more husbands participate to household labor, the better marital satisfaction. In case of perception of sexual discrimination, main effect is not significant, but interaction effect with age is significant. Interaction effect between age and education is also significant. 32.52% of the variance in marital satisfaction were accounted for by these variables.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.175-191
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• 2018

This exploratory study considers the difference between personal and perceived societal values related to South Korean women's role in the home, workplace, and society using eight items asked on the Korean Academic Multimode Open Survey (KAMOS), May-July 2017. Factor analysis showed that these eight items could be grouped into two categories: women's role in her family and women's in the outside world. Of the 2,000 respondents, 54.1% personally agreed that "Both the husband and wife should contribute to their family income." People in their 30s felt the largest gap between their personal and societal values; women also felt a larger gap than men. Those who watched television more were generally more conservative than those who used the Internet more. People who felt a smaller gap between societal and personal values were more likely to feel proud to be a Korean citizen. People who believe that it is better not to marry felt a bigger gap between some societal and personal values on items relating to whether a wife should work, whether a woman's housework or paid job is more valuable, and whether women's job performance is equal to men's. People who believe that divorce is sometimes acceptable were also more likely to feel a bigger difference in two items: the item about job performance and an item about whether a married woman's social status is dependent on her husband's.

• 한국인구학
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.139-164
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• 2009

이 글은 유럽을 중심으로 진행된 제2차 인구변천에 관한 논의를 검토하고, 이러한 논의가 한국 사회의 출산력 변천에 어떤 함의를 지니고 있는가를 제시하고자 한다. 제2차 인구변천에 관한 논의는 기본적으로 산업국가에서 출산력 수준이 대체수준 이하로 감소되고 있는 상황을 설명하기 위한 노력에서 출발하였다. 제1차 인구변천과 달리 제2차 인구변천은 종착점으로 인구의 균형상태를 상정하지는 않는다. 오히려 새로운 변화는 대체수준 이하의 출산력, 결혼이 아닌 다양한 형태의 삶의 양식, 결혼과 출산의 무관계성, 안정된 인구의 부재 등을 가져올 것으로 전망한다. 또한 제2차 인구변천은 이민자의 유입이 없으면 인구가 지속적으로 감소할 것이며, 저출산과 평균수명의 연장의 결과로 인해 제1차 인구변천이론에 의해 예측된 인구보다 고령화될 것으로 전망한다. 제2차 인구변천에 대한 논의는 인구변천을 겪고 있는 유럽 국가들의 인구학적 변화를 밝히는데 중요할 뿐만 아니라 한국 사회의 인구학적 변화를 설명하는데 중요한 근거를 제공할 것으로 기대된다. 한국의 제2차 인구변천에서 두드러지게 나타나고 있는 상황은 저출산이다. 저출산 현상은 다양한 요인들이 유기적으로 연결되어 나타난 것이다. 이 중 결혼율의 감소, 초혼 연령의 상승, 이혼율의 상승, 소자녀 가치관 등 가족형성과 관련된 변수들은 저출산에 직접적으로 영향을 주는 변인으로 볼 수 있다. 이들은 제2차 인구변천 내용에 포함된 인구학적 변수들과 크게 다르지 않다. 다만 이러한 변인들에 영향을 주는 요인들이 유럽 사회와 다르게 작동하고 있는 것으로 보인다. 인구학적 변인 이외에 양성평등의 관념, 노동시장의 불안정성, 자녀 양육 및 교육 비용 등은 한국 사회의 저출산을 이해하는데 상대적으로 설명력이 큰 변인으로 볼 수 있다.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제28권2호통권70호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2007

Objectives : Combined treatment (CT) of oriental herbal medicine and prescribed drugs is now being increasingly used among cancer patients around the world. However, in Korea, clinical information on the frequency, efficacy and safety of CT among cancer patients has not yet been thoroughly reported. This study aimed to identify the status and adverse effects of CT for the management of cancer patients. Methods : A questionnaire and medical record survey by oriental medical doctors or physicians were performed at two oriental medical hospitals and one general hospital. Of the initial 400 in-patients, 368 participated in this survey, representing a response rate of 92.0%. Results : Among cancer patients in oriental medical hospitals, the proportion of CT was 45.9%. In contrast, the proportion of CT in the general hospital was only 0.6%. The proportion of CT among breast cancer patients (20) and gastric cancer patients (35) were 85.0% and 51.4%, respectively. The proportion of CT among cancer patients was high in younger, female or married patients groups. 10 respondents (11.1%) among 90 cancer patients experienced several adverse effects including nausea, fatigue, etc. Conclusions : This study suggests that many more patients in oriental medical hospitals than general hospitals use combined treatment of oriental herbal medicine and prescribed drugs for management of cancer. Therefore, medical professionals should provide comprehensive and up-to-date clinical information about potential benefits and risks of CT to cancer patients in Korea.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.472-485
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• 2014

본 연구는 스스로를 단일 민족 국가라고 여기는 한국 사회가 민족적 우월성이라는 이데올로기와 인종적으로 계층화된 질서를 재확인 하는 도구로서의 미디어 담론을 어떻게 생산하는가에 초점을 두고 있다. 전세계적 공공 미디어 모델과 마찬가지로, 한국의 공영 방송은 계층, 나이, 인종, 성별, 이데올로기의 구분없이 공공의 경험과 의견들을 불편부당하게 재현해야 하는 의무가 있다. 이러한 책무에도 불구하고 한국의 대표적 공영방송 KBS는 한국 사회 내의 다양한 문화적 집단들을 공정하게 재현해 내는 데 어려움을 겪고 있다. 이러한 관점에서 본 연구는 한국 공영방송에서 재현되는 이주민들에 대한 뉴스 제작 과정에서 1차적 게이트키퍼로서의 취재기자들을 인터뷰함으로써 이주민들과 다문화에 대한 그들의 인식과 평가를 분석하였다. 그 결과 KBS의 일선 취재기자들은 다문화와 이주민에 대한 정형화된 스테레오타입을 가지고 있었고, 이주민들과 관련된 기사를 생산함에 있어서 KBS 내부의 취재 관행에 크게 의존하고 있음을 알 수 있었다.