• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2015

Individuals who are vulnerable during disaster - including elderly, people with disabilities, children, pregnant women and etc - have a strong desire to protect themselves when disaster strikes since they are less capable to deal with the impact of disaster. Their experience and effort to keep them safe can be used as a resource to reduce the impacts of disaster not only for them but also for the community as a whole. Therefore, voluntary disaster management program will contribute to our society as a tool to respond effectively to disaster not only to meet the vulnerable's special needs but also to enhance community safety and public interest. This paper suggests a model that able "disaster vulnerable population" to take a leadership role in identifying risk and vulnerability factors, recommending disaster management strategy, and through that, contributing to enhance society's disaster plan. Therefore, this study aimed to surveyed individuals including "disaster vulnerable population" in order to assess the vulnerable's participation in disaster related volunteer work and surveyed associated institutions(volunteer centers, community centers) in order to research currently existing relevant programmes and the participation of "disaster vulnerable population" in such programmes. Also conducted focus group interview to explore voluntary program which will possibly integrate "disaster vulnerable population" into disaster management activities. As a result, three types of voluntary disaster management programs - education, public-relations, and activity - were suggested.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

This study has purpose on deducting problems of evacuation plan for vulnerable populations in disaster and suggesting improvement plan through analysis of disaster weakness in domestic rural region aiming at vulnerable populations in disaster like old people containing most of domestic rural population, sometimes being in blind spot of safety when landslide or disaster occur. As a result, we could know that rural regions have high proportion of vulnerable populations in disaster like old people, also being so weak to landslide and slope collapse. So we suggested development of manual describing prevention of disaster and evacuation for vulnerable populations in disaster like old people and disaster evacuation organization for house and minimizing solution for damage of human life through improvement of steep slope evaluation criteria.

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
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• 제33권49호
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• pp.314.1-314.15
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• 2018

Background: Despite its growing significance, studies on the burden of disease associated with natural disasters from the perspective of public health were few. This study aimed at estimating the national burden of disease associated with typhoons and torrential rains in Korea. Methods: During the period of 2002-2012, 11 typhoons and five torrential rains were selected. Mortality and morbidities were defined as accentual death, injury and injury-related infection, and mental health. Their incidences were estimated from National Health Insurance Service. Case-crossover design was used to define the disaster-related excess mortality and morbidity. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) were directly assessed from excess mortality and morbidity. Results: The burden of disease from typhoons increased with the intensity, with 107.7, 30.6, and 36.6 DALYs per 100,000 per event for strong, moderate, and weak typhoons, respectively. Burden of disease from torrential rains were 56.9, 52.8, and 26.4 DALYs per 100,000 per event for strong, moderate, and weak episodes, respectively. Mental disorders contributed more years lived with disability (YLDs) than did injuries in most cases, but the injury-induced YLDs associated with strong typhoon and torrential rain were higher than those of lower-intensity. The elderly was the most vulnerable to most types of disaster and storm intensities, and males younger than 65 years were more vulnerable to a strong torrential rain event. Conclusion: The intensity of torrential rain or typhoon was the strongest determinant of the burden of disease from natural disasters in Korea. Population vulnerable may vary depending on the nature and strength of the disasters.

• Journal of Menopausal Medicine
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.150-154
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• 2018

As disasters have been increasing in recent years, disaster health literacy is gaining more important for a population such as middle-age women. This is because they face developmental crises (menopause) and situational crisis (disaster). Due to the growing elderly population, it is imperative to seriously consider the issue of aging women's healthcare, and their educational needs relative to emergencies and disasters. The purpose of study was to clarify the importance of disaster health literacy for middle-age women. This study is a review of the literature using PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Google Scholar, SCOPUS, OVID, ProQuest, Springer, and Wiley. Data was collected with keywords related to the research topic ("Women's health" OR "Geriatric health") AND ("Health literacy" OR "Disaster health literacy" OR "Disaster prevention literacy" OR "Risk knowledge" OR "Knowledge management") AND ("Disasters" OR "Risk" OR "Crises") in combination with the Boolean-operators OR and AND. We reviewed full text English-language articles published November 2011 November 2017. Additional references were identified from reference lists in targeted publications, review articles and books. This review demonstrated that disaster health literacy is critical for elderly women, because they may suffer from physical and psychological problems triggered by developmental crises such as menopause and situational crises such as disasters. Disaster literacy could enable them to improve resiliency and reduce disaster risk. Education has vital role in health promotion of middle-age women. Policymakers and health managers should be aware of the challenges of elderly women as a vulnerable group in disasters and develop plans to incorporate disaster health literacy for preparedness and prevention in educating this group.

• 한국BIM학회 논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.104-115
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• 2022

Fine Dust in Korea has been classified as a social disaster since 2019 due to continuous increase in concentration of Particulate Matter 10(PM 10) and PM 2.5. The fine dust issue has negative physical and mental impacts, especially on vulnerable population including children and the elderly. Seoul metropolitan government have installed fine dust shelters since 2019. However, there is a lack of research that evaluates spatiotemporal distribution of these facilities. Therefore, the first aim of this study is to find the relationship between PM levels and dust scattering construction sites, or air pollutant emission sites through in depth spatial analyses. The second purpose is to analyze the spatial distribution of PM shelters in Seoul, and to evaluate the location efficiency of them. Kernel density, krigging, and network analyses were conducted, and floating population was considered instead of census data for this research. The reults of network analysis based on the road system showed that Yangcheon-gu, Songpa-gu, Seongbuk-gu, and Dobong-gu were found to need additional fine dust shelters. Also, the results from analyzing the floating population that includes children and the elderly showed that Songpa-gu, Seodaemun-gu, Gangdong-gu, Seocho-gu, and Dongdaemun-gu need more placements of find dust shelters. The results of this study are expected to provide implications for urban planners to enhance find dust shelter placement in urban areas, and vulnerable population issues would be considered in many ways.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.71-82
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• 2018

본 연구는 울산광역시를 대상으로 화학사고에 대비한 대피시설 위치의 적정성을 분석하여 피해 최소화를 위한 방안을 연구하였다. 연구방법은 화학물질 배출 및 이용량 자료와 인구센서스 집계구 자료, 대피시설 위치정보 등을 활용하여 화학사고 위험성 평가와 대피시설의 접근성을 분석하였다. 이를 통해 대피시설 위치의 적정성을 도출하였다. 화학사고 위험성은 석유화학공장과 인구가 밀집된 석유화학공단지역 인근 5km 이내에서 높았다. 대피시설은 대부분 화학사고 위험지역에 분포하고 있으나, 석유화학공장 인근지역에서 대피시설의 접근성이 취약한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 우선적으로 화학사고 예방을 위해 노후화된 공장시설의 안전점검도 필요하지만, 대피시설의 수용인원, 규모 등을 고려하여 보다 효과적인 대피방안을 마련해야 될 것이다.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2016

서울은 많은 인구 및 도시 기능이 집중된 거대 도시로, 재난 및 위급상황이 발생하였을 때 긴급하게 대피할 수 있는 장소는 필수적이다. 현재 서울시 대피소의 숫자는 수용능력 면에서 보면 서울시 인구의 두 배 이상을 상회하고 있다. 하지만 서울의 경우, 거주지의 인구분포와 유동인구를 포함한 낮 시간대의 인구분포는 상이하다. 따라서 대피소의 실질적인 수용성을 분석하기 위해서는 수도권 인구 분포의 유동적인 특성을 고려할 필요가 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 수도권의 유동인구자료를 활용하여 서울시 대피소의 실질적인 접근성 및 수용능력을 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 보행자 도로망을 이용한 네트워크 분석을 통해 대피소의 접근성을 파악하고 거주인구 및 유동인구에 따른 지역적 수용능력의 차이를 분석하였으며, 연구지역 내 대피소의 분포에 따라 취약한 지역과 현재의 대피소 위치 선정에 대한 문제점을 도출할 수 있었다.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.97-107
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• 2020

The indiscriminate growth in global population poses a threat to the world in handling and disposal of Municipal solid waste. Rapid urban growth increases the production, consumption and generation of Municipal solid waste which leads to a drastic change in the environment. The methane produced from the Municipal Solid waste accounts for up to 11% global anthropogenic emissions, which is a major cause for global warming. This study reports the methane emission estimation using IPCC default, TNO, LandGEM, EPER and close flux chamber from open dump yards at Perungudi and Kodungaiyur in Chennai, India. The result reveals that the methane emission using close flux chamber was in the range of 8.8 Gg/yr-11.3 Gg/yr and 6.1Gg/yr to 9.1 Gg/yr at Kodungaiyur and Perungudi dump yard respectively. The per capita waste generation was estimated based on waste generation and population. The waste generation potential was projected using linear regression model for the period 2017-2050. The trend of CH₄ emission in the actual field measurement were increased every year, similarly the emission trend also increased in IPCC default method (mass balance approach), EPER Germany (zero order decay model) where as TNO and Land GEM (first order decay model) were decreased. The present study reveals that Kodungaiyur dump yard is more vulnerable to methane emission compared to Perungudi dump yard and has more potential in waste to energy conversion mechanisms than compare to Perungudi dump yard.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방재학회 2009년도 정기 학술발표대회
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• pp.36-42
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• 2009

A series of heavy rainfall, typhoon and earthquake disasters caused a proportionately large number of deaths among the elderly in the year 2004 in Japan. In response to these tragedies, the national government set up committees to reduce damage within the disaster vulnerable population for the next three years. The discussions in the committee led to a new conceptualization that disaster vulnerability was caused by a lack of interaction between a person's special needs and the environment's capacity and resources to meet them. This person-in-environment model of hazard vulnerability was applied to those who resided in the Nankai-Tonankai tsunami hazard-prone area. 123 home care service users were interviewed in terms of their self-evacuation ability, degree of social isolation, and building weakness as well as tsunami exposure risks. Results were quantified and scores of person-in-environmentmodel hazard vulnerability were obtained. These scores were then used to visualize socially created vulnerability by means of weighted kernel density mapping of both persons with special needs (PSN's) and persons with special needs at times of disaster (PSND's).

• 대한지역사회작업치료학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2016

목적 : 2016년 10월 경주지역에서 우리나라 관측사상 최고인 5.1과 5.8 규모의 지진이 발생하였다. 비록 피해가 크지는 않았지만 우리나라에서도 언제든지 재난상황을 일으키는 재해가 발생할 수 있다는 것을 암시한다. 이번 지진을 계기로 재난상황에 대해 비정부 기관과 여러 나라의 재난에 대한 보건의료 체계를 작업치료사의 역할을 중심으로 알아보고자 하며, 우리나라의 재난대응 보건의료 체계 개선을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다. 연구방법 : 재난대응 관련 보건의료 체계와 작업치료사의 역할 및 활동에 대한 문헌을 중심으로 고찰하였으며 영문 및 한글 문헌으로 한정하였다. 결과 : 재난상황에서 작업치료사는 약 10년 전부터 활동하게 되었으며 이것은 1994년 적십자사의 '인도주의적 복구' 강령에 따라 소외 및 취약계층인 노인, 어린이 그리고 장애인에 대해 편견 없는 지원이 활발해지면서 시작되었다. 또한 대규모의 인명피해로 인하여 영구 장애의 피해자들이 대규모로 발생하며 재활 서비스가 중요성이 부각되고 작업치료사의 역할이 더욱 강조되었다. 재난대응에 있어서 작업치료사는 준비단계, 대응단계 그리고 회복단계에 따라 역할을 나눌 수 있으며, 재난상황에서 작업치료 주 대상자는 어린이, 노인, 장애인등 취약계층 그리고 복구 지원에 투입된 자원봉사자들이다. 결론 : 세계의 비정부기관과 각 나라에서는 재난대응 보건의료팀 지원체계에 '재활' 개념을 도입하고 있으나 우리나라의 재난대응 보건의료 체계는 응급의료 수준에 머무르고 있다. 세계의 재난대응 보건의료 체계에서와 같이 작업치료사 등 다양한 보건 분야 전문인력을 우리나라의 보건의료 체계에도 포함시켜 보완해야 할 것이다. 이를 통하여 불가항력적으로 발생할 수 있는 재난 발생 시 피해자들의 장애를 최소화하고 안정적인 재활과 더불어 건강한 생활복귀를 이룩할 수 있을 것이다.