• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.347-357
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• 1996

Although occupational low back pain accounts for $20\sim40%$ of all occupational illness and injury, there are limited numbers of studies regarding the effectiveness of back school program. The objective of this study was to evaluate the economic benefit of back school program for early return to work of occupational low back pain patients in the current occupational injury compensation and management system. The cost-benefit analysis in this study was conducted to evaluate the relative magnitude of benefit to cost. The total cost was estimated by calculating the value of components in back school program according to governmental budget protocol. The back school program was consisted of three major approaches, pain center, work-hardening program and funcional restoration program and each of components had various facilities and experts. The total amount of cost was estimated as 250,866,220 won per year. The most promising type of back school program were quite intensive (a 3 to 5-week stay in a specialized center), therefore, if we adopted the 5-week stay course, 10 courses could be held in a year. Following to the medical act, 20 patients per doctor could participate in a each course, ie, total 200 patients in a year. As a result, we could estimate the cost of 1,254,331 won a patient. We estimated the benefit by using data of a few local labor offices about average medical treatment beneficiary and off-duty beneficiary of 46 occupational low back pain patients in 1994. Ullman and Larsson (1977) mentioned that the group of chronic low back pain patients who participated in back school program needed less time to recover by 48.4% of beneficiary duration. And in the trying to estimate the benefit, we asked 10 rehabilitation board certificate doctors about reduction proportion of treatment cost by introducing back school program. The answered reduction proportions were in the range of $30\sim45%$, average 39%. As a final result, we could see that the introduction of back school program in treatment of chronic occupational low back pain patients could produce the benefit to cost ratio as 3.90 and 6.28. And we could conclude that the introduction of back school program was beneficial to current occupational injury compensation and management system.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.114-125
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• 2019

재난현장의 극한 상황에 노출되어 있는 소방공무원들의 공무상 부상빈도는 꾸준히 증가하고 있다. 그러나 증가하는 공상에 비하여 공상승인이나 관련 절차는 복잡하여 소방공무원의 안전관리 측면에서의 근무환경은 매우 열악한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 부산시 소방공무원들을 대상으로 공상관리제도에 대한 실증적으로 살펴봄으로써 향후 소방공무원들의 공상관리제도 개선에 기초자료를 제공하고자 수행되었다. 실증분석 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 공상에 대한 경험 빈도가 타 직군에 비해 높다. 둘째, 공상신청이 적극적으로 이루어지지 못하고 있다. 셋째, 공상승인 시 자부담 비용이 발생한다. 이러한 실태분석을 토대로 공상관리제도의 개선을 위한 정책적 요인분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째 공상신청 개선 요인을 위해서는 공상신청 심의 시 고위험 제반사항 고려가 필요하고, 공상관리제도 운영 개선 요인을 위해서는 공상자 혜택 및 지원사업 확대가 필요하다. 그리고 공상제도 개선 요인을 위해서는 보상 관련법의 개선이 필요하다. 둘째, 공상관리제도의 개선을 위해서는 피해 예방 및 대처교육 프로그램 마련이 시급히 이루어져야 하며, 또한 공상신청 행정절차의 간소화 및 공상자 혜택 및 지원사업 확대가 조속히 이루어져야 하고, 아울러 기관장의 관심 및 지원 강화가 필요하다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.87-102
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• 2002

Injury has now replaced disease as the biggest single cause of death in children after their first birthday. Each day child dies from preventable, unintentional injury and the medical cost of these injury is increasing remarkably. It is necessary to develope injury prevention models to explain, predict, manage, evaluate and analyze the information about accident. The purpose of this paper is, firstly, to investigate parent's actions regarding safety measures at home and secondly, to identify the influencing factors of parents' safety behaviors. The selection of such factors is guided by the theoretical framework of the Pender's Health Promotion Model. Method ; The questionnaire was developed on the basis of other investigations, through pilot testing, peer review, and review by field health workers. The questionnaire was completed by 231 mothers of young children. Data was collected between April and May 2002. Variable Use of three different domains of safety behavior, safety habits, supervision and perception of safety devices, were listed. Mothers were self reported on internal locus of control, mother & child relationships, and marital intimacy. Also the elements of the Health Promotion Model: perceived benefit, barrier, threat, and self-efficacy, were surveyed. Results & discussion The results indicate that most parents take considerable action to reduce household hazards. The constructs derived from the Model were statistically significant differences for a small part of the variables on parental behavior to reduce hazards in the home, such as age, education, economic status, self-efficacy, perceived benefit, internal locus of control. Future studies ought to include social influences, such as expectations, perceived norms, knowledge, and child-related variables, relevant to parental safety measures in their home.

• 의료법학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.287-307
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• 2009

A person is injured in car accident caused by his/her slight negligence except he / she causes accident by his / her willfulness or gross negligence. Because the National Health Insurance Corporation (hereinafter called "Corporation") shall not provide any insurance benefit "when he has intentionally or through gross negligence caused a criminal conduct or intentionally contributed to the occurrence of an accident" referred to in Article 48 (1) 1 of the National Health Insurance Act. So, if he / she is insured by his / her own bodily injury coverage, he / she can be compensated for his / her medical expenses. The injured have the rights to file either National Health Insurance claim and Automobile Insurance claim but there is no clear and definite adjustment clause. The claim disputes between National Health Insurance (hereinafter called "NHI") and Automobile Insurance (hereinafter called "AI") in the own bodily injury coverage makes some problems. Firstly, there are some differences in co-payments which he / she chooses between NHI and AI. Profit per a patient is higher in the NHI than in the AI. Secondly, it can provoke criticism that people shall unnecessarily pay double contributions. Lastly, it can raise moral hazards. For example, if he / she can cover the compensations when the insured receives the compensations from his / her insurer, the Corporation can be claimed by medical care institution payment of the health care benefit costs. In conclusion, first of all, to improve the national health and preserve the insured's rights the Corporation shall keep notice these facts.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제37권
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• pp.119-141
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• 1999

본고는 산재보험 급여체계 내에서 나타나고 있는 일부급여의 비합리적 과잉급여 현상과 협소한 급여범위와 급여의 미흡성 그리고 제한성 문제는 장기적으로 사회보험의 건전한 체제정립을 저해함은 물론 장기적으로 불공평성으로 인한 수급자의 제도에 대한 왜곡인식과 악용이 늘게되고 가입자의 제도 참여에 대한 불만과 회의적 시각이 누적되어 결국은 제도에 대한 신뢰를 상실시킬 수 있다는 우려에서 연구의 필요성을 인식하였다. 산재보험에 있어서 궁극적인 목적인 급여의 적절성을 보장하기 위하여 급여에 의하여 수급자가 오히려 부를 축적할 수 있는 기회로 왜곡되거나 또는 급여체계의 목적에서 벗어난 적정이상의 소득이 발생되지 않도록 하여야 하는 점도 급여체제의 올바른 기능 수행에 있어서 중요한 과제로 판단하였다. 또한 사회보험제도 내에서 각 급여부분의 보장 수준에 평준화를 통하여 수급권자가 일부 급여에 대하여 집착을 보이지 않도록 하는 급여별 보장 수준의 평준화의 확립도 중요한 제도적 발전의 관건으로 인식하여 급여의 적절성과 평준화를 위한 문제점과 개선방안을 제시하고자 하였다. 다만 무분별한 급여수준의 삭감은 오히려 사회보험 발전에 저해요소로 작용할 위험이 높은 점을 감안하여 급여제도의 함으로 인하여 제도가 목적으로 하지 않는 비합리적인 부분으로서 적정이상의 급여를 제거하고, 오히려 급여부분에서 상대적으로 급여의 협소성과 미흡성으로 지적되는 보장기능에 대한 보완 작업을 통하여 제도 자체의 급여체제에 대한 형평성 및 공평성을 확보할 수 있는 대안을 제시하고자 하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 산재보험 급여체제에 있어서 과잉 또는 중복 지급되는 급여부분을 구체적으로 지적하고 이를 급여에 있어서 미흡한 부분으로 전환 방안을 제시함으로써 제도의 합리성을 확보하고 제도의 건전성을 확보함으로써 산재보험의 장기적인 제도발전에 기여하고자 하였다.

• 의료법학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.71-89
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• 2012

Just in case a patient's state couldn't get better or get even worse after medical practices, it is difficult for the patient's side to accept the result and it tends to think that its damage is caused by his doctor's malpractice. Medical practices of a doctor require highly advanced attention duty as a medical expert, because they are targeted at a human body of the best benefit and protection of the law. However, it is hard to prove the malpractice on the patient's side in medical dispute. Therefore, to solve a medical dispute quickly and fairly before the medical suit Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) has done a medical dispute adjustment business since 1999. For the past 5 years (2006~2010), the medical team of KCA had managed 4,171 cases as an injury relief, but it had dealt with them focusing on an injury relief business only after the occurrence of a medical accident. Afterwards, it is necessary to expand the range of its services in purpose of preventing the injury of consumers. If we can solve the problems -the clear statements about the cease of extinctive prescription in the fundamentals of comsumer act, the presence of parties directly concerned at comsumer dispute adjustment committee, and the effect of an agreement, etc. -, which have been founded in medical injury relief service of KCA and the management and procedures of the comsumer dispute adjustment committee of KCA and if we can also give KCA more workers and the proper budget of the government, we can expect KCA to become a more useful agency.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

This study proposes a methodology to assess the traffic safety benefits of technical regulation for pedestrian leg. Traffic safety benefit is defined as the injury reduction in this study. Actual accident analysis and simulation experiments using LS-Dyna3d are conducted to establish statistical models for developing the methodology. The relationship between collision speed and parameters of the regulation is explored. An application example of the proposed methodology is also presented for more comprehensive understanding. It is believed that the proposed methodology would be greatly utilized in developing various technologies and policies to protect pedestrian.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.235-246
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• 2023

Nanotechnology, like any other revolutionary innovation in materials science, has significantly influenced the level of competition in sports. Nanotechnology provides various benefits and enormous potential to enhance athletic equipment, making players safer, more comfortable, and more agile. Various sporting equipment is being infused with nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes (CNTs), silica nanoparticles (SNPs), nanoclays fullerenes, etc., to enhance athlete and equipment performance. Each of these nanomaterials gives athletic equipment an extra benefit like high strength and stiffness, longevity, decreased weight, abrasion resistance, etc. This paper mechanically analysis the structural strength of tennis equipment to avoid injury. As a result, the bending forces are applied to the reinforced structures to investigate their durability.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.101-110
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• 2018

In this study, we aimed to investigate the neuroprotective effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), an active component of propolis purified from honeybee hives, on photothrombotic cortical ischemic injury in mice. Permanent focal ischemia was achieved in the medial frontal and somatosensory cortices of anesthetized male C57BL/6 mice by irradiation of the skull with cold light laser in combination with systemic administration of rose bengal. The animals were treated with CAPE (0.5-5 mg/kg, i.p.) twice 1 and 6 h after ischemic insult. CAPE significantly reduced the infarct size as well as the expression of tumor necrosis $factor-{\alpha}$, hypoxiainducible $factor-1{\alpha}$ monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, $interleukin-1{\alpha}$, and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in the cerebral cortex ipsilateral to the photothrombosis. Moreover, it induced an increase in heme oxygenase-1 immunoreactivity and interleukin-10 expression. These results suggest that CAPE exerts a remarkable neuroprotective effect on ischemic brain injury via its anti-inflammatory properties, thereby providing a benefit to the therapy of cerebral infarction.

• 한국농촌간호학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.44-54
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• 2024

Purpose: This study identifies the factors influencing unplanned readmissions among participants of the medical aid community care pilot program. Methods: This descriptive study analyzed data from 1,013 participants in a medical aid community care pilot program. Data were analyzed using multiple logistic regression analysis. Results: The presence of mental illness, injury-related conditions, long-term care grades, and activities of daily living scores are key factors influencing the likelihood of readmission. In particular, the presence of a mental disorder or an injury-related condition increased the probability of readmission, whereas individuals with long-term care grades 1~2 showed a decreased likelihood of readmission. Conclusion: This study emphasizes the importance of enhancing the management of mental and injury-related conditions, effective utilization of long-term care services, and improvement of ADL scores to reduce readmission. These findings offer crucial insights for enhancing the efficiency of home medical care benefit programs and sustainable expansion of services.