• Psychiatry investigation
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1019-1029
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• 2018

Objective We investigated how mental health awareness among North Korean refugees transformed depending on temporal-spatial context changes. Methods In 2013, we conducted interviews with 10 refugees (eight women) who had been in South Korea for over a year and performed a qualitative analysis of the change in mental health awareness in the differences between living in North Korea, escape (a related period of forced sojourn in a third country), and settlement in South Korea. Results We classified 39 concepts into five main categories. The first two categories (while living in North Korea) were "a mindset for the system, but not for individual mental health" and "being confined in a social environment that was indifferent to mental health." A third category appeared during escape: "focusing on survival amid continuity of intense suffering." The final two categories appeared when settling in South Korea: "recognition of mental health amid cultural shock" and "introspection and sorting oneself out." Conclusion This qualitative study enabled a better multi-dimensional understanding of the social and cultural aspects involved in improving mental health awareness among North Korean refugees in South Korea. It is desirable to integrate mental health as a part of daily life and to expand training for North Korean settlers.

• 한국사회정책
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.9-47
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• 2012

본 연구는 가구의 사교육비 지출과 다른 소비지출과의 관계와 소득계층에 따른 그 차이를 분석하였다. 분석결과, 빈곤층의 사교육비 지출 수준은 중산층과 상층가구에 비해 적을지라도, 가구의 소비지출에서 차지하는 비중은 높게 나타난다. 또한 가구의 사교육비 비중이 증가 또는 감소로 인해 조정되는 소비 비목은 소득계층에 따라 차이를 보인다. 즉 중산층과 상층은 사교육비 비중 변화에 따라 탄력적으로 다른 소비를 조정하는 반면, 빈곤층은 탄력적으로 조정할 수 있는 소비 항목에 제약이 있었다. 이는 빈곤층은 사교육비 지출로 인한 소비지출의 제약으로 인해 생활에 필요한 충분한 소비를 하지 못할 가능성을 보여준다. 빈곤층 가구에서 사교육비 지출은 가구의 경제적 부담을 증가시킬 뿐만 아니라 가구 소비의 위축을 가져와 실질적인 경제적 안녕을 저해할 가능성이 높다. 따라서 빈곤층의 사교육비 부담과 지출의 증가로 인한 경제적 안녕의 훼손과 불안정한 소비로 인해 발생하는 제반의 문제를 예방하기 위한 사회적 노력이 필요하다.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2019

현재 한국 사회는 1990년대 중반부터 국제결혼이 급속도로 증가하며 학령기를 맞이하는 그 자녀들의 수치도 최근 들어 매년 증가하고 있다. 이렇게 우리 사회에서 다양한 사회, 문화적 배경의 부모를 가진 학생들이 점차 늘어나는 가운데 이들이 겪고 있는 어려움은 우리가 관심을 가지고 해결해야 할 새로운 사회 문제로 떠오르고 있다. 이들이 겪고 있는 어려움은 부모의 출신국적과 사회, 경제적 지위, 자녀 양육태도 등에 따라 정도의 차이는 있지만 일반적으로 초등학교 저학년 때에는 언어장벽, 고학년 때에는 학습장벽, 중학교에 진학해서는 교우관계 장벽에 시달리고 있는 것으로 보고되고 있다. 특히 학교는 '축소된 사회'라고 하는데 이 시기에 다문화가정 학생들이 일반학생들과 서로 잘 어울리지 못하고 서로간의 거리감을 좁히지 못할 때 이들이 장차 성인이 되어 사회에 진출하게 되었을 때에는 서로 분리되어 사회적 갈등까지 야기 시킬 수도 있다는 문제의식을 바탕으로 이 연구를 시작하게 되었다.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제30권sup호
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• pp.6.1-6.4
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• 2015

Objectives This study is conducted to estimate the cost paid by the public suffering from disease possibly caused by chemical and to examine the effect on public health. Methods Cost-benefit analysis is an important factor in analysis and decision-making and is an important policy decision tool in many countries. Cost-of-illness (COI), a kind of scale-based analysis method, estimates the potential value lost as a result of illness as a monetary unit and calculates the cost in terms of direct, indirect and psychological costs. This study estimates direct medical costs, transportation fees for hospitalization and outpatient treatment, and nursing fees through a number of patients suffering from disease caused by chemicals in order to analyze COI, taking into account the cost of productivity loss as an indirect cost. Results The total yearly cost of the diseases studied in 2012 is calculated as 77 million Korean won (KRW) per person. The direct and indirect costs being 52 million KRW and 23 million KRW, respectively. Within the total cost of illness, mental and behavioral disability costs amounted to 16 million KRW, relevant blood immunological parameters costs were 7.4 million KRW, and disease of the nervous system costs were 6.7 million KRW. Conclusions This study reports on a survey conducted by experts regarding diseases possibly caused by chemicals and estimates the cost for the general public. The results can be used to formulate a basic report for a social-economic evaluation of the permitted use of chemicals and limits of usage.

• 인문언어
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.161-178
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• 2001

This study investigates how Korean traditional family consciousness interacts with Korean industrialization in the 1970s. In Our Children, Lee Sun depicts a family's struggle within the turmoil brought about by rapid industrialization to escape from the ranks of the working class. It is well known that one of the consequences of industrialization was the breakup of the larger family structure into nuclear families, but Lee Sun presents Korea's industrialization in the 1970s in the light of the traditional Korean family culture before the breakup. In other words, he gives us a portrayal of Gemeinschaft in Gesellschaft in his description of the extended family's struggle to overcome the day-to-day pressures of modernization and urbanization. The novel presents three generations of a traditional extended family. The eldest son is portrayed as a knife, strong and sharp. His wife has a temporary job that she hopes to give up once they own a house, which symbolizes the family's escape from the working class. The relationship among the family members reveals the core aspects of the ideology governing traditional extended families: the husband is the despotic monarch of the household, solely responsible for the family's economy; the husband is the sky and the wife the earth; and children (the more the better) are expected to lead to stability, welfare, and prosperity. One curious aspect of this family relationship as portrayed by Lee Sun is the expectation that being the eldest son, who already is or will become the patriarch of the family, is the fastest way of reaching middle-class status. And, despite a slight reversal, the novel has a happy ending wherein the family's expectations are fulfilled without much suffering. This aspect should be considered in light of the revolutionary romantic idealism of the novels of the 1930s. The lack of suffering and the easy happy ending may be attributed to the fact that Korea's industrialization came about rapidly and radically, and therefore it is likely that Lee Sun was not able fully to appreciate the full costs of industrialization. This limitation calls for a deeper investigation into the social structure and class consciousness of the 1970s, and also a study of the intertextual relationship of Our Children with other novels of the time.

• 대한예방한의학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.199-211
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• 2008

Hong, You-Son($1452{\sim}1529$) overcame his suffering, caused by his low social standing, through Taoism. Hong, You-Son could be infatuated with Taoism because Taoism was still spread all over the country in early Chosun dynasty and in more permissive atmosphere than the atmosphere after the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592. Therefore, Taoist health prevention, not religion, reflecting theory of Taoist hermit and wishing for perennial youth and long life was prevalent among the intellectual class in that period. In addition, it was very fascinating idea for Chosun intellectual class to prevent health with practice because medicine was not developed in that period. The importance of his health prevention was vitality ; he insisted that people can get health and long life with it and need mind practice to discard greed of this life. His advocacy was agreed with Kim, Si-Seup, and Chung, Ryum, the members of Danhak School, and his health prevention became a base for medicine developments preventive medicine. Hong, You-Son seemed to use Taoism not to avoid temporally, but to overcome his suffering, and furthermore, find out self identity. He became one of major members of Danhak School because the ideas of Taoism such as accomplishing health and long life with self practice and achieving self satisfaction with discarding utilitarianism was fitted for conflict mind of Hong, You-Son. Taoist ideas were reflected in his poetry and his everyday life ; he identified a Taoist hermit with Himself in his poetry and acted like a hermit in his everyday life.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.37-45
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• 1999

Most of elderly residents who live in nursing home for a long time have been suffering from chronic sickness. Therefore, residential part should be the place to recover social relationship, to get over isolation and to be able to make communication through contact of personal activities. The purpose of this study is to offer the guideline of planning and scale of the shared place which makes better housing environment of the elderly. also, the character of the elderly and element of environments appropriate for the frail elderly people were study.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.33-42
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• 1996

Given the global impact of the AIDS pandemic, it is necessary to take every measure to prevent an epidemic of this disease in Korea. The only available strategy is prevention. Considering college students as a potential risk group, this study examined their knowledge of, and attitudes toward AIDS. In this study, 399 students from three colleges in Pusan and Uoolsan were examined for their attitudes to, and knowledge of AIDS. Findings indicate that the majority of the students（90％） had basic knowledge on the transmission and the prevention of the disease. However, most of them, including nursing students, lacked knowledge as to the etiological agent, major symptoms and available diagnostic techniques. To the questions designed to examine social attitude towards AIDS patients, the students showed a tendency to view AIDS patients as responsible for their own illness. Interestingly, they showed sympathy to their imaginary friends and relatives suffering from AIDS. The study findings suggest a need for the development of AIDS educational programs for college students.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2010

Hospice is defined by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO, USA) and WHO, as a program of care that provides comprehensive medical, nursing and support services to dying patients and their family. Despite its broad definition, however, hospice care in Korea has been focused mostly on terminal cancer patients. Thus hospice eligibility for patients with advanced cancer is relatively easier to predict than those with other fatal chronic illnesses such as heart, lung, renal or liver diseases, and dementia. This makes it more difficult for patients and families to prepare for death and gain full benefits of hospice care. This article introduces the medical guidelines for selected non-cancer patients who are expected to live for only six months, this making it possible for patients, who are nearing the end of life, to avoid unwarranted suffering.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.154-163
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• 2007

There become more people suffering from cancer, so the number of cancer patients are increasing as well. However, cancer patients should go through a lot of psychological and physical stress because of side effects of drugs, especially alopecia, during the treatments for cancer. Especially female patients relatively more take care of their appearance, therefore it imposes much more psychological stress for them. Most of the patients choose wig as an alternative, but it is difficult for them to choose right wigs because of their lack of knowledge about wigs. Wigs not only make up for the bald hair but helps asthetically if patients choose right wig which goes well with their face, and eventually helps patients have self-esteem and makes them be positive in their social activities. The purpose of this research to offer right data and qualitative aid about wig, so that it can enhance the quality of cancer patients' lives.