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Disaster Preparation of Visiting Nurses in Public Health Centers (보건소 방문간호사의 재난대비 및 재난간호핵심능력 영향요인)

  • Uhm, Dongchoon;Park, Youngim;Oh, Hyunjin
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.240-249
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing personal disaster preparation and disaster nursing core competency among visiting nurses in public health centers. Methods: A descriptive survey study was adopted. A convenience sample was taken from 277 subjects in three regions. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, correlation, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. Results: The mean personal disaster preparation and disaster nursing core competency scores were 11.13 and 76.87, respectively. Personal disaster preparation was statistically significant by experience of disaster victims and disaster management guideline. Disaster nursing core competency was statistically significant by participation in future disaster recovery. As a result of multiple regression analysis, personal disaster preparation accounted for 14.9 of the variance by experience of disaster victims and disaster management guidelines; disaster nursing core competency accounted for 8.9 of the variance by perception of disaster nursing. Conclusion: Although visiting nurses are ill-prepared for disaster, global natural and man-made disasters can occur regardless of time and place. Disaster education and training should therefore be included in nurses' fundamental education.

Awareness of Severity of Natural Disasters and Nursing Core Competencies in School Health Teachers (보건교사의 자연재난 관리에 대한 심각성인식과 관리핵심수행능력)

  • Choi, Eun Hee;Jang, In Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.344-354
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess school health teachers' awareness of the severity of natural disasters and nursing core competencies related to disasters. Methods: This cross-sectional study asked 119 school health teachers to complete structured questionnaires sent by email and mobile phones from Feb to Aug, 2017. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA and multiple regression analysis with SPSS 21.0 statistical program. Results: The predictor that had a significant effect on school health teachers' core competency was the experience with natural disaster safety education. Its explanatory power was 14.3%. Conclusion: The finding of this study suggests a strong need for the implementation of disaster-related education targeting school health teachers in order to improve their disaster management ability.

A Study on the Establishment of the Standard Future Disaster Management System through the Case Analysis of European Countries - Focusing on Climate Change Adoption - (유럽 방재선진국 사례분석을 통한 미래 재난관리 표준시스템 구축에 관한 연구 - 기후변화 적응을 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Dugkeun;Oh, Jeongrim;Son, Youngjin;Song, Youngkarb
    • Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.61-66
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    • 2009
  • Previous disaster management system in Korea was focusing on post-disaster, recovery phase. However, modern disaster management system should be focusing on the mitigation activities to minimize human and property damages based on the proper prediction and forecast of various natural disasters and timely dissemination of disaster information to the people. Recently, more frequent and larger scaled disasters have been reported around the globe, mainly due to the environment change not only by physical anomalies such as climate change but also by socio-economic transformations such as urbanization and industrialization. This study describes current practices in disaster management for climate change adaptation of advanced countries and a possible disaster management standard system that can be applied in Korea, based on the case studies on the European countries who are improving their disaster management systems against climate change.

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A brief review of national management system in public health and medical aspect (보건의료관점에서 본 국가재난안전관리 체계 및 대책)

  • Kim, Jee-Hee;Lee, Si-Young
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.375-376
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    • 2008
  • Recently the increase of natural disaster and man-made disaster, newly emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism attack changed the world in many aspects. So the Ministry of Health and Welfare and other related agencies are trying to solve the problems with disasters. We discussed these problems in the following eleven categories. (1) emergency medicine (2) communicable disease control, (3) food safety control, (4) public facilities safety, (5) social welfare facilities safety, (6) bioterrorism control, (7) geriatric health care, (8) insurance support, (9) overseas disaster victim support, (10) national organization protection, (11) fire fighter safety in forest fire. Through the reviews on the various kinds of disaster, we proposed the disaster control measure for the near future.

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Study on the Classification of the Disaster Prevention Resources for Effective Disaster Management (효율적 재난관리를 위한 방재자원 분류체계 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Chang-Hee;Jung, Woo-Young;Lee, Chang-Yeol;Kang, Byung-Hwa
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.153-163
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    • 2013
  • The damage caused by natural and human disasters has been increasing year by year. While the damage from these disasters are unavoidable, reduction of damage level by proper establishment of control measures could be sufficiently achievable. Disaster prevention resources include resources introduced in the event of disaster, such as human, materials, equipments and facilities. Rapid yet proper inputs of these resources are the key factor to minimize any damages from the disaster. Currently, however, the standard and/or criteria for mobilization of the disaster prevention resources have not yet systematically established. Therefore, proper resource management as well as efficient resource input has not been in place. This research is an early stage construction of efficient mobilization resources, which had been irregularly loaded and applied before. Also this study has tried to provide a classification rule for efficient disaster prevention resource management and mobilization, and indeed, provide a foundation for efficient resource management system.

A Study on the System Improvement for Efficient Management of Large-scale Complex Disaster (대형복합재난의 효율적 관리를 위한 제도개선방안 연구)

  • Kim, Taehoon;Youn, Junhee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.176-183
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    • 2018
  • Climate change, rapid urbanization, and population concentration have led to a higher frequency and magnitude of disasters in the world. Recently, the occurrence of large-scale complex disasters, which are caused by a combination of natural disasters, man-made disasters, and social disasters, is increasing. In Korea, there are many case studies of damage prediction and response technology development for individual natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, and typhoons. On the other hand, the system basis for the efficient response and management of large-scale complex disasters is insufficient. Therefore, this study examined the representative cases of natural, social disasters, and related cases of domestic disaster response management systems. In addition, this paper proposes ways to improve the legal system for complex disaster management policies and establish a cooperation system between the ministries for an efficient response.

Public's Recognition of the Space Object's Re-entry Situations and the National Space Disaster Management Policy (우리나라 국민의 우주위험인식 수준과 국가 재난정책)

  • Kim, Syeun;Cho, Sungki;Hong, Jeongyoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.84-92
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    • 2016
  • Since the mankind started its space mission, the number of artificial space objects has been increasing exponentially. It contains not just the space machines which are in use but the machines which are out of order. Meantime, those dead machines are being a serious danger, a real threat to human's lives and property because of it could re-enter into the earth's atmosphere and fall to the ground causing mega-disaster. As the number of space activities gets growing so far, the re-entry of the space objects will be a lot more happened in the future. Therefore, not just natural space object like asteroids but the artificial space object like artificial satellite and space station can cause the disaster by falling to the ground. To protect our nation and our property, the government has set up the space disaster management center in Korea astronomy and Space science Institute. In this study, we surveyed public's recognition of the space object's re-entry situation and analyzed it to contribute building national space disaster management policy.

Monitoring Flood Disaster Using Remote Sensing Data

  • Chengcai, Zhang;Xiuwan, Chen;Gaolong, Zhu;Wenjiang, Zhang;Peng, Sun-Chun
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 1998.09a
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    • pp.280.2-286
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    • 1998
  • Flood is the main natural disaster mostly in the world. It is a care problem to prevent flood disaster generally. The frequency of flood disaster is high and the distributing field is wide, the 50 percent population and 70 percent properties distribute at the threaten field of flood disaster in China. Flood disaster has caused a huge amount of economical losses and these losses have an increasing trend. Along with the development of reducing natural disaster action, it has become one of the most attentive problems for monitoring flood, preventing flood and forecasting flood efficiently. Remote sensing has the characteristics of large spatial observing areas, wide spectrum ranges, and imaging far away from the targets, imaging capabilities all weather. Spatial remote sensing information, which records the full, processes of the disaster's occurrence and development in real-time. It is a scientific basis for management, planning and decision-making. Through systemic analyzing the RS monitoring theory, based on compounding RS information, the technology and method of monitoring flood disaster are studied.

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Improvement of Countermeasures for Slope Failure Mitigation in Korea (국내 사면붕괴 방지대책 선진화 방안)

  • Park, Dug-Keun;Kim, Tai-Hoon;Oh, Jeong-Rim;Han, Tae-Gon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.107-116
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    • 2005
  • Korea has been suffering from various natural disasters. Slope-stability related disasters such as landslides usually occur during typhoon and torrential rain season. Types of slope-stability related disasters can be classified as failures in cut slopes along constructed roads, landslides in natural terrain, and retaining structure failures in urban area. This paper summarizes human casualties for the last 29 years in Korea, reviews field studies for the disaster sites that caused human casualties due to torrential rains in the Summer of 2005, analyzes causes of slope-stability related disasters and includes recommendations for an effective management system.

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IoT Based Disaster Mitigation and Safety Monitoring Technologies (IoT 기반 재난예방 및 안전 모니터링 기술)

  • Myeong, S.I.;Lee, H.;Lee, H.J.;Lee, K.B.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.101-110
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    • 2018
  • Based on the main technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution, industries including the smart home, transportation, agriculture, factory, energy, and medical care industries are rapidly developing. Disaster management technologies and services based on state-of-the-art convergence technologies are being widely applied for the purposes of public safety. State-of-the-art scientific technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to offer alternative solutions to pending issues of disaster and safety. Particularly in disaster management, a "prevention activity"to avoid and control disasters in advance is essential, and thus disaster prevention and safety monitoring technologies based on hyper-connected intelligence are fundamental for society during the 4th Industrial Revolution. IoT technologies are being actively applied and utilized in various fields to prevent social and natural disasters. In this article, we introduce the development trends of disaster prevention and safety monitoring technologies based on IoT technologies.