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Factors affecting Oral Health Promotion Behavior in University Students (대학생의 구강건강증진행동에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Oh, Se-Jin;Lee, Ju-Yul;Yang, Jeong-A
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: This study examined the factors the oral health promotion in university students. It is to identify factors that affect activities for life style and subjective oral health status. Methods: The subjects are 385 students who agreed to participate in research Cheonan. Questionnaires were distributed and collected after they filled in by themselves. SPSS ver.20.0 was used for analysis to get the reliability of each analysis tool. The genral characteristics was analysis of frequency. For comparison oral health promotion and subjective oral health status related to the genral characteristics, it was used t-test, ANOVA. Pearson's correlation was used correlation of each variable. multiple linear regression analysis was used to comprehend that affects oral health promotion behavior. Results: There was statistical significant difference in factors affecting subjective oral health status, departments of health. dietary lifestyle was low correlated among sub factors of lifestyle. oral health promotion behavior wasn't related to subjective oral health status. dietary lifestyle had the most significant impact to oral health promotion behavior. Conclusion: To progess through oral health education program of the university students, it is asked to configure the content that can handle regular lifestyle, rather than focusing on smoking habits and drinking habits.

Effect of Occupational Safety and Health-related Communication in Manufacturing Industry on Safety and Health Management Level - The Number of Supervisors as Mediating Factor - (제조업의 산업안전보건 관련 의사소통이 안전보건경영 수준에 미치는 영향 - 관리감독자 인원의 매개효과를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, You-ri;Lee, Si-young;Chen, Mee-hye;Park, Ji-young;Lim, Mi sun;Lee, Jin-a;Jung, Hye-sun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.494-502
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify the general characteristics of manufacturing workplaces and the characteristics of safety and health organizations, and to determine the impact of safety and health-related communication within these organizations mediated by supervisory safety and health management personnel. Methods: This study is based on the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency's 2018 Occupational Safety and Health data targeting 1,486 manufacturing sites. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA, and mediator variable regression analysis using SPSS 25.0. Results: The average score on communication levels related to safety and health was 11.20 out of 15. The average score of the safety and health management level was 31.04 out of 40. As a result of mediation regression analysis, it was found that safety and health-related communication had an effect on the safety and health management level (𝛽=0.434), and the number of safety and health supervisors was found to mediate the effect of this variable (𝛽=0.069). Conclusions: The level of safety and health-related communication affects the level of health and safety management, and the number of supervisors mediates this influence. Therefore, the role of the supervisor is important in safety and health communication. It is expected that the level of safety and health management can be improved through management and supervisors.

The Present State and Improvements of Health Education in Schools (학교보건교육 현황 및 개선방안)

  • Park, Eun-Ok;Yoo, Sun-Mi;Cho, Hong-Jun;Lee, Weon-Young;June, Kyung-Ja
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.15-26
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    • 2005
  • Purposes: This review is designed to assess the current status of health education in Korea, to identify problems within the curriculum, and to suggest ways to improve health education in Korea. Results: Korean schools currently lack a regular standardized health education curriculum. Subjects related to health education are presently taught in other disciplines, such as physical education, home management, biology, and other related subjects. The Korean health education curriculum suffers from many significant problems, including a lack of educational goals for health education, absence of designated time for health education, a lack of continuity between contents, knowledge-oriented health education, and an overall disconnect with the needs of the students. Other problems include an exclusion of health education experts in the development of the curriculum, no designated times for health education within the regular curriculum, and a lack of health teachers in schools. Conclusion: To improve health education in schools, standard health education curriculum should be developed. Health education curriculum needs to be sequential, comprehensive, and skill-based. Health education needsto be a essential subject, health teachers need to be trained, and provided with technical support.

Cohort Profile: Gachon Regional Occupational Cohort Study (GROCS)

  • Lee, Wanhyung;Lee, Yongho;Lee, Junhyeong;Kim, Uijin;Han, Eunsun;Ham, Seunghon;Choi, Won-Jun;Kang, Seong-Kyu
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.112-116
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    • 2022
  • Background/Aims: The Gachon Regional Occupational Cohort Study (GROCS) is a large-scale longitudinal study of occupational safety and health data (covering Work Environment Monitoring, Workers' Health Surveillance, and Occupational Health Service) conducted by the Gachon University Gil Medical Center (GUGMC) in Incheon, Republic of Korea. We conducted GROCS to identify the health effects of workers' occupational risks, behavior, socioeconomic status, and life style. Methods: The GROCS includes data from Work Environment Monitoring, Workers' Health Surveillance, and Occupational Health Service. The baseline year for all data collection was 2018. Work Environment Monitoring was conducted in 240 companies located in Incheon. General Health Examination and Special Health Examination were performed on 32,725 and 9,504 workers, respectively. Occupational Health Services were provided to 16,883 workers in 171 companies. These data have been collected and operated at an external data management institution and were provided as a retrospective cohort after removing personal identification information. Results: In 2018, the total number of companies was 2,854, among which which 488 special Health Examination, 171 Work Environment Monitoring, and 240 Occupational Health Service. The proportion of companies undergoing Special Health Examination was 17.1%, the proportion of companies undergoing Work Environment Monitoring was 8.4%, and the proportion of Companies undergoing Occupational Health Service was 6.0%. Conclusion: GROCS expects researchers to utilize its useful and reliable resource for occupational health and surveillance with for academic or political purposes to lead to improved workers' health and working environment.

Perceived Health Status and Health Promoting Behaviors among University Students

  • Ahn, Yo-Chan;Park, Hyun-Suk;Ra, Gyu-Won
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.52-64
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    • 2014
  • Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the relationship among perceived health status, dietary habit and health promoting behaviors of university students. Methods: The subjects were 464 university students. Data were collected by using self-reported questionnaires. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis with the PASW 18.0 program. Results: The mean score of perceived health status was 3.24, dietary habit was 2.85 and health promoting behaviors was 2.24. There were significant differences in perceived health status according to gender, BMI, exercise and stress. There were significant differences in dietary habit according to residence, monthly allowance, drinking alcohol, exercise, sleeping hours and stress. In addition there were significant differences in health promoting behaviors according to gender, residence, BMI, smoking and exercise. Also, perceived health status significantly positively correlated between dietary habit and health promoting behaviors. Conclusions: As the results of multiple regression analysis, the related factors of perceived health status of university students were exercise, stress and spiritual growth factor. Therefore, it is necessary to develop multiple health promoting programs considering characteristics of university students. And various strategies have been developed to increase the physical activity should be run.

CHEMOPREVENTION OF SMOKE-RELATED DNA DAMAGE AND CANCER

  • Flora, Silvio-De;Roumen Balansky;Carlo Bennicelli;Anna Camoirano;Maria Bagnasco;Cristina Cartiglia;Elena Tampa;Mariagrazia Longobardi;Alberto Izzotti;Fransesco D Agostini
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.50-51
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    • 2001
  • DNA damage is an essential step in the pathogenesis of cancer and probably of other chronic degenerative conditions related to cigarette smoke (CS), such as atherosclerosis, cardiomyopathies, etc. Although the major goal of primary prevention is to refrain from smoking, chemoprevention by means of dietary and pharmacological agents provides a complementary preventive strategy. In spite of its overwhelming epidemiological importance, experimental studies evaluating CS as a complex mixture are relatively scanty.(omitted)

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Correlation among oral health behavior, oral health knowledge and dietary control of university students (일부 지역 대학생들의 구강보건행위와 구강보건지식도 및 식이조절과의 연관성)

  • Lee, Seon-Ok;Jang, Yun-Jung
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.725-732
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: The purpose of the study was to investigate the influencing factors of oral health behavior and oral health awareness of university students by assessing oral health practice. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 500 university students in Jeonbuk from June 2 to 15, 2014. Except ten incomplete answers, 490 data were analyzed. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects, subjective oral health status (8 items), oral health knowledge (18 items), and oral health practice (22 items) by Likert 5 point scale. Results: Oral health behavior had a significant effect on smoking status (${\beta}=-0.200$, p<0.001), oral health knowledge (${\beta}=-0.235$, p<0.001), dietary control practice (${\beta}=-0.123$, p<0.05), and daily toothbrushing frequency (${\beta}=-0.240$, p<0.001). With respect to factors influencing oral health knowledge, significant effect was found in oral health behavior (${\beta}=0.258$, p<0.001), dietary control awareness (${\beta}=0.208$, p<0.001), and dietary control practice (${\beta}=-0.136$, p<0.05). Conclusions: Oral health knowledge of university students is an important factor to cause a change in the behavior of oral health practice. Consequently, oral health education is essential to university students. In order to help improve the oral health, more customized and organized oral health programs will be necessary and it will encourage changes in university students oral health practices.

Socioeconomic Inequity in Self-Rated Health Status and Contribution of Health Behavioral Factors in Korea (한국인의 사회경제적 불평등에 따른 주관적 건강수준의 차이와 건강행태 기여요인 분석)

  • Kim, Min-Kyung;Chung, Woo-Jin;Lim, Seung-Ji;Yoon, Soo-Jin;Lee, Ja-Kyoung;Kim, Eun-Kyung;Ko, Lan-Ju
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.50-61
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    • 2010
  • Objectives: The study is investigated socioeconomic variations in self-rated health status and contribution of health behavioral factors in Korea. Methods: A nationally representative sample (2,800 men and 3,230 women aged 20-64 years) from the 2005 Korea National Health and Nutrition Surveys was analyzed using logistic regression. Results: Self-rated health was lower among lower socioeconomic groups compared with higher socioeconomic groups, with gender being irrelevant. This association was attenuated when health behavioral and socio-demographic factors were adjusted. When each health behavioral factor was considered separately, mediators such as smoking in men, and stress or exercise in women explained a large part of the decreased socioeconomic health inequalities. Conclusions: In Korea, subjective health inequalities arise from different socioeconomic status, but this difference is decreased by health behavioral factors. Therefore, socioeconomic inequity in self-rated health status can be corrected more effectively by promotional health behaviors.