• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.80-86
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• 2019

Background: Emigration of health-care workers is a problem within global health systems which affects many countries, including Peru. Several factors have caused health-care workers to emigrate, including burnout syndrome (BS). This study aims to identify the association between BS and its dimensions with the intention of physicians and nurses to emigrate from Peru in 2014. Methods: A cross-sectional study, based on a secondary analysis of the National Survey of Health Users (ENSUSALUD - 2014) was conducted. Sampling was probabilistic, considering the 24 departments of Peru. We include the questionnaire for physicians and nurses, accounting for 5062 workers. BS was measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey. Adjusted odds ratio (OR) was calculated using multiple logistic regression. Results: Of the study population, 44.1% were physicians, 37.7% males, and 23.1% were working in Lima. It was found that 2.8% [95% confidence interval (CI): 2.19-3.45] of health-care workers had BS. The overall prevalence of intention to emigrate among health-care workers was 7.4% (95% CI: 6.36-8.40). Association was found between BS and intention to emigrate in Peruvian health-care workers (OR = 2.15; 95% CI: 1.05-4.40). Emotional exhaustion was the BS dimension most associated with intention to emigrate (OR = 1.80; 95% CI: 1.16-2.78). Conclusion: Physicians and nurses from Peru who suffered from BS were more likely to have intention to emigrate. Policies should be established to reduce BS as a strategy to control "brain drain" from health-care workers of Peru.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.36-46
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• 2011

본 연구는 도서지역에 있는 47개 보건지소에 근무하는 의과 공중보건의사 79명을 대상으로 응급의료 수행 현황 및 지식수준 등을 파악하고자 하였다. 전체 79명의 대상자 중 35명이 설문에 응답하여 44.30%의 응답률을 보였다. 지난 6개월간 도서지역 보건지소에 근무하는 공중보건의사 중 58.68%가 응급의료 질환을 경험하였고, 평균 1.92건의 응급처치를 수행한 것으로 나타났다. 하지만, 실제 응급처치 능력에 대해서는 일부 생명과 직접 연관된 응급처치 능력에 자신이 없음을 호소하였다. 보건지소 근무 의사 중 20.25%만이 전문의 자격을 갖춘 의사였는데, 응급의료 관련 질환을 처치하는 데 있어 전문의가 일반의와 비교하면 지식수준이 유의하게 높은 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한, 지식수준이 높다 하더라도 장비 및 의료지원 등 부족으로 실제 처치 능력으로 이어지지 못하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 일부 섬의 경우 1명의 공중보건의사만 배치된 일도 있었으나 일반의 1인, 전문의 1인을 배치하는 것이 타당하다는 의견이 많았고, 공중보건의사 배치 이후 부족한 지식 및 기술을 습득하기 위한 교육 및 지원체계가 필요하다는 의견이 다수 있었다. 도서지역은 지리적으로 고립되어 있고, 이용할 수 있는 보건의료기관에 대한 선택권이 적다는 점에서 보건지소의 역할이 무엇보다 중요하다. 특히 응급질환 발생시 보건지소를 이용하는 주민이 많다는 측면에서도 보건지소 응급의료 기능을 강화하는 방안을 마련하는 것이 필요하겠다. 응급의료 기능을 효율적으로 수행하고 질 높은 서비스 제공을 위하여 적절한 인력, 의료장비를 갖추도록 하고, 응급의료에 대한 매뉴얼 개발 및 현장교육 체계를 정비하여 최신의 지식과 기술을 보급하는 방안을 강구하여야 한다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.67-70
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• 2012

The surveillance programme of work-related diseases (WRD) is based on a network of occupational physicians who notify all WRD diagnosed during a two-week observation period. The aims are mainly to estimate the prevalence of non-compensated WRD in the working population according to socio economic factors; to determine new indicators of occupational health; to update the lists of compensable occupational diseases; to understand and assess under-compensation and under-notification. The participation rate for occupational physicians is around 33% in 2008. The main WRD are the musculoskeletal disorders, followed by the mental disorders. This 2-week protocol, repeated regularly, provides useful data on frequency of pathologies linked to employment as well as an estimate of unreported WRD subject to compensation or non-compensated WRDs, and the trends of WRDs over the time.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.230-237
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• 2011

Purpose: To identify the perception and practices of kangaroo care in nurses and doctors working in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) in Korea. Methods: One hundred forty-nine nurses and nineteen doctors working in the NICU from six university hospitals completed a survey questionnaire. Results: Most agreed that Kangaroo care promoted attachment and parental confidence as well as physical health of the infant. However, nurses and doctors showed a negative perception in providing kangaroo care for premature infants under 1,000 grams or within several hours after birth. Major barriers for kangaroo care were worrying about extubation and safety problems of premature infants. Married or senior nurses showed a more positive perception than others. Also nurses who worked in hospitals where kangaroo care was provided had a lower barrier perception than other nurses. Conclusion: Nurses and doctors working in NICU worried about adverse effects of kangaroo care even though they perceived positive effects. Standard education programs and manuals should be developed before dissemination of kangaroo care in Korea.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.35-39
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• 1988

In these past 2 decades, dramatic improvement in technology have greatly expanded the scope of female and male surgical sterilization in Korea. Female and male surgical sterilization are readily accepted because those are simple, in expensive, effective and apparently without serious postoperative complications and the failure rates are very low. In 1986, 92,000 cases of vassectoncy and 312,000 tubal sterilization were taken by the financial support of government in Korea. In this important appraisal the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs provided the guideline for the physicians on the medicoethical problems of surgical sterilization for men and women. The various medicoethical consideration that may give arise to the physicians as well as family planning workers in connection with surgical sterilization are also reviewed and discussed.

• 한국한의학연구원논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2008

Alimentotherapy refers to the treatment or prevention by means of food. As food is consumed in everyday life and its constituents varies enormously. the practice of alimentotherapy was often misunderstood. By the research on ancient classics we could find 3 prospective about this practice. Firstly, alimentotherapy was used during the recovery and also for prevention. This is a type of Life-nurturing method, which we suggest to be called life-nurturing alimentotherapy. Secondly, it was also used as a dietary prescription made by physicians. Sometimes they made prescriptions combining materials derived from food with herbal medication. This practice was exclusively made by physicians as they had to consider the characteristic of each food as well as the condition of the patient. Thirdly, sometime alimentotherapy was used in cuisine form. They used food components in major part and herbal medicine used as additional ingredients. It was primarily focused on the taste and in some part its functional aspects. The underlying theories in alimentotherapy is exactly the same as used for understanding herbal medicine in TKM. Therefore, except in the case of life-nurturing method, it should be used by expert physicians. Finally, we suggest to differentiate the terms of alimentotherapy in the aspect of life-nurturing, dietary prescriptions and cuisine to prevent confusions.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.1701-1709
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• 2009

The mobile terminal system plays a key role in medical industries which require in fast and accurate diagnosis from heterogeneous acquisition equipment. The demand for PACS (picture archiving and communication systems) has continued to increase in major hospitals and private clinics. Patient care depends on how fast the medical imaging system provides images and how accurately the images are interpreted by physicians. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to decipher the hundreds of images required by physicians to accurately diagnose patients. By exploring Motion- JPEG (M-JPEG), this paper has demonstrates the possibilities for efficient management of medical images with a newly designed image file format and improvement in imaging diagnoses through the replaying of moving pictures of a patient in a mobile environment.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제83권4호
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• pp.776-782
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• 2022

영상의학과 의사의 탈진은 최근 이슈로 부각되고 있으며 의사 본인의 건강 문제뿐만 아니라 환자 진료에 악영향을 미칠 수 있어 환자 안전을 위협할 수 있다. 우리나라 대형병원에 근무하는 전문의의 약 84%에서 한 번 이상 탈진을 경험하였다고 응답하였다. 이를 극복하기 위해서는, 적절한 업무량의 확보뿐만 아니라, 전문가로서의 역할을 할 수 있도록 워크플로우의 개선, 마지막으로 업무-휴식 간의 밸런스를 확보할 수 있도록 해야 한다.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2001

In 2000, the number of people aged 65 and over increased to 3.37 million, accounting for 7.1% of the total population of South Korea. The elderly population will increase up to 19.3% in 2030. Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) seems to increase with age. More than 50-60% of old people complain of SDB-related signs and symptoms including awakening headache, excessive daytime sleepiness, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, memory loss, personality changes, and depression. The influence of a mild degree of SDB upon the elderly is unclear, but moderate to severe SDB is well known to be associated with many diseases including hypertension, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, stroke, dementia, and sudden death. Therefore, physicians should pay attention to elderly patients who complain of SDB related symptoms and signs that may not be normal signs of aging. Physicians need to become more sensitive to treat SDB in the elderly.

• 의료법학
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.113-142
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• 2018

최근 의사에 의한 형사범죄 사건 발생 시 죄의 종류에 관계 없이 일정 수준 이상의 형을 선고받게 되면 면허취소처분이 이루어져야 한다는 의견이 제기되고 있으며, 이에 대한 법안이 국회에 대표발의 되는 등 논의가 본격화될 것으로 전망된다. 국민 일반이 의사에게 기대하는 도덕성 윤리성이나 법치의식의 수준, 다른 전문직역에 대한 면허취소제도 등을 고려할 때 의사의 형사범죄에 따른 면허취소는 일정부분 타당하다고 평가될 수 있다. 그러나 정제되지 않은 추단이나 감정적 판단에 기인하여 허술한 제도설계가 이루어질 경우 예기치 못한 부작용이 발생할 가능성이 있다. 사회적 용인가능성이 없는 중대한 형사범죄에 대해서는 의사 면허취소처분을 통하여 국민일반을 위험으로부터 보호하는 조치가 타당하다고 평가될 수 있을 것이다. 그러나 고위험 의료행위가 갖는 구명성과 높은 과실위반 노출성, 사회적 유용성 등의 특성을 감안할 때 업무상과실치사상죄 및 일부 경미한 범죄행위는 반사회성이 높은 형사범죄행위와 동일하게 평가하기 어려운 측면이 있다. 의사는 다른 전문직과 동일하게 취급될 필요성이 있는 동시에, 위험을 감수하고 환자의 생명을 다루는 특수성을 지닌 전문가이므로 의료의 본질적 특수성 및 보건의료시책상의 필요성 등을 고려하여 보다 구체적이고 실증적인 제도 도입 논의가 이루어져야 할 것이다. 이에 따라 본고에서는 위와 같은 판단과 문제의식에 기초하여 의사의 직업윤리 및 국내 외 형사범죄와 연계된 의사면허취소제도를 살펴보고 우리나라의 실정에 맞는 다양한 입법론적 대안을 살펴봄으로써 합리적인 제도수립에 도움이 되고자 한다.