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Development and Application of a Health Promotion Program for Marriage Immigrant Women (여성결혼이민자를 위한 건강증진 프로그램 개발 및 적용)

  • Seo, In Ju;Park, Jeong Sook
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.198-210
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This study was to develop a health promotion program for marriage immigrant women and to evaluate its efficacy. Methods: The health promotion program was comprised of eight 100-minute weekly sessions. Each session included understanding of health responsibility, nutrition, physical activity, interpersonal relations, stress management, and self actualization. The research was conducted under the principles of nonequivalent control group pretest-post test design. The outcome variables were health promoting behavior, health status, acculturation, self efficacy, and perceived barrier. The participants were 15 immigrant women in the experimental group and 16 in the control group. Data was analyzed using ${\chi}^2$ test, Fisher's exact test, Mann Whitney U-test and Wilcoxon signed rank test. Results: There was a significant improvement in health promoting behaviors (U=-3.08, p=.002), left shoulder flexibility (U=-3.02, p=.003), right shoulder flexibility (U=-3.02, p=.003), low back flexibility (U=-3.37, p=.001), social health status (U=-3.38 p=.001) and subjective health status (U=-2.17 p=.030) in the experimental group compared to the control group. Conclusion: The health promotion program for marriage immigrant women was an effective intervention for improving health promoting behavior, physical health status, social health, and subjective health status. Therefore, the developed health promotion program needs to be applied to married immigrant women in other kinds nursing care settings in future research.

Reimbursement for Preventive Health Services: The U.S. Experience

  • Davis, Karen
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.22 no.1 s.25
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 1989
  • This paper examines the failure to promote adequate preventive health care in the U.S. It focuses specifically on the preventive health services of screening, counseling, and immunization. It explores evidence on their effectiveness, as well as coverage under current private and public health insurance plans. It concludes with a proposal to expand health insurance coverage for preventive services and to reimburse physicians directly for preventive health services provided to patients.

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Development of u-Healthcare Agent System using of 3-Axis Accelerometer Sensor (3축 가속도 센서를 이용한 u-헬스케어 에이전트 시스템 개발)

  • Choi, Dong-Oun;Kim, Jin-Sung;Song, Haeng-Sook
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.98-105
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    • 2010
  • Health of the people involved in blood sugar, blood pressure, activity, and using bio-sensors to obtain biometric information, the system for monitoring health research for development is a lot. This paper analyzes the bio information by monitoring the u-health care agent system was developed. Activity measurement technology that uses 3-axis accelerometer sensor. 3-axis acceleration sensors, using information obtained from activity to activity analysis to calculate the exact algorithm was developed. More accurate than the existing system to calculate the calorie consumption, it is stored in the database management. and you can check your health status using of activity and bio-information.

Trend and Implication of Primary Care Evaluation in U.S. (미국의 일차의료 평가 동향 및 시사점: 미국의 리얼월드 평가 안내서를 중심으로)

  • Suh, Youshin;Kim, Hee-Sun;Yoo, Bit-Na;Kim, Jin-Hee;Park, Chong Yon
    • The Journal of Health Technology Assessment
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.88-94
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    • 2018
  • This review aims to provide implications for relevant domestic policies and researches from Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), a reinforcement model for primary care and its evaluations in the United States. As chronic diseases became dominant, changes in the health care delivery system in which primary care is central was required. The United States initiated primary care-reinforcing policies based on the PCMH following the increased demand for evidence-based health care policies. The current activities of the United States such as sharing research tools used to evaluate primary care interventions and circulating evaluation findings provide examples to Korea. Systematic evaluations for primary care interventions are required and appropriate methods using various types of data to reflect the real-world settings should be prepared. It is necessary to conduct policy assessment studies of public interests considering regional context. Support for the researches to make and advance from the existing environment must be examined.

Software Platform for Stability Assure of Sensor Network in u-Health Environment (유헬스 환경에서 센서네트워크의 안정성 보장을 위한 소프트웨어 플랫폼)

  • Jung, Min Woo;Cho, Jeonghun
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.219-226
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    • 2012
  • The rises of the life index quality together with the medical technology improvement lead to a longer life expectancy. Then a better health care program, especially for elderly, is needed. The common health problems facing those senior citizens are changed from acute diseases to chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension. Then u-Health takes center stage in medical industry. Although u- Health medical device manufacturers have been improving their instruments, these instruments still rely on proprietary technologies without fixed platform. Even if the interface has been provided by the manufacturer, there is no widely-accepted uniform data model to access data of various u-Health devices. IEEE 11073 is a standard attempting to unify the interfaces of all medical devices. In this paper we have proposed a conversion software platform that assures interoperability among medical devices for ubiquitous sensor network. This module uses in order to develop a standard platform of medical system.

Models of Care for Frail Older Adults

  • Ersek, Mary;Byun, Eee-Seung
    • Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.71-80
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    • 2011
  • The growth of the aging population in Korea will challenge health and social services. As Korean society changes, the U.S. models of end-of-life care and geriatric care for frail older adults may have increasing relevance for the Korean healthcare system. This article reviews three U.S. models of care for frail older adults: hospice and palliative care, the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), and the transitional care model. We describe the strengths and limitations of each model and discuss ways in which these models could be adapted for the Korean healthcare system.

A Study on Improving the System of Health Care Service on IT using in Rural Area (IT를 기반으로 한 농촌보건의료서비스 향상을 위한 연구)

  • Lim, Yong Kwang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2012.07a
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    • pp.399-400
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    • 2012
  • 본 논문은 보건의료서비스 공급을 민간이 주도하고 있는 현실에서 인구가 밀집한 도시 지역 병 의원의 집중과 과잉으로 농촌지역의 효율적인 의료서비스 공급이 절대적으로 부족한 현실을 고려하여 의료서비스의 질적 수준을 높일 수 있는 On-line 의료서비스 공급기반 확충과 저비용-고효율의 의료전달체계를 확립하기 위한 U-healthcare service 모델 연구와 발굴을 제안하고 IT기술을 기반으로 한 의료취약계층에 대한 건강관리 및 치료나 수술 후 질병의 예후관리에 대한 보다 효율적이고 기술 집약적인 의료서비스 제공을 통한 농촌지역 의료서비스 활성화를 제안한다.

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Development of Smart Phone Application With Spectrometer for u-Health Service (u-Health 서비스를 위한 스마트폰용 스펙트럼 측정 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Su;Lee, Seo-Joon;Lee, Tae-Ro
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.261-269
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    • 2013
  • Ubiquitous healthcare is a recent technology and a new methodology of medical diagnosis and medical care. However, in order for u-Healthcare service to become a general technology, there are some technological barriers(mobility, minimization, battery consumption etc) to overcome. In this paper, we developed a spectrum analysis system for smart phones. The results showed that compared to other solutions, our's were not only small in size but also almost the same in performance(reproducibility comparison experiments, Spectrum, Calibration Curve and Prediction). Therefore, the proposed solution is expected to be widely used in u-Health area.

Health promotion services of health care center at some universities in California, the U.S. (미국 대학보건실의 건강증진 서비스 제공체계 - 캘리포니아 주에 소재한 일부 대학의 운영사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Young-Bok;Park, Chun-Man
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.113-127
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    • 2011
  • Background: University health services have provided comprehensive medical care, counseling, health promotion, and public health services to their students and several other local institutions. To their faculty and staff, university health care centers have served occupational health services and employee assistant program. Purpose: We performed this study to review the health promotion services on two kinds of health care center with different style of university formate. Methods: We tried to collect the data by literature review and interview with executive and provider at health care center in University of California at Berkeley and San Jose State University. Results: Our results were as followed. First, students could use the medical services just as they would their regular doctor's office and urgent care center. Second, the health promotion unit offered programs and services for keeping students healthy and safe, including many opportunities for students to get involved in shaping the public health of the campus. Third, the health promotion recommendation offered from ACHA was useful guideline to improve health status of their member in university campus. Finally, the student satisfaction surveys were used for evaluation and quality improvement. Conclusions: The systematic approach to improve health status of students, faculty and staff can use to maintain a state of optimum health among the diverse student community in support of academic excellence. Coupled with health promotion and public health programs, university health service have to reach all segments of the healthy campus community. To achieve study goals in university, the health care center contributes to promote accountability and responsibility for the health and well being of the members in their campus.

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