• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.77-86
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• 2010

Korean population is now aging at an unprecedented rate. Fertility decline together with rapid improvements in life expectancy is the dominant demographic trend. As human life and housing environment are inseparably related to each other, the importance of conditions of housing environment for active aging among seniors has been received considerable attention as vital ones to expand the independency period of seniors. The purpose of this case study is to identify relationships between environmental affordance and perceived holistic health of the active elderly living in a retirement community located in Seoul. With spending time personally in the community to observe their lives, the researcher could be in close rapport with the residents. After the period of getting familiar with each other, in-depth individual interview and focus group interview were conducted and then, qualitative analysis was completed. As a result, general evidences showed that perceived seniors' health on the whole was improved physically, socially, and mentally by moving into the community providing appropriate environment affordance with the older adults. The study presents that retirement relocation into an improper environment may be a negative challenge, however, it may positively influence on the health and well-being of those who live there if the environment properly supports seniors‘ needs physically and socially

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.209-232
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• 2012

The purposes of this study is to calculate the gender-based Life Expectancy and Disability Free Life Expectancy of 65-year-olds in accordance with the regions of 16 in Korea based on the years 2005 and 2010 by using the Sullivan method. We used the Census in 2005, 2010, the Korea National Statistical Office(10% sample). We also reviewed examining the changes in LE and DFLE and understanding the relevance between the DFLE of 65-year-olds of the year 2010 and related factors. As a result of this study, it was shown that the LE of the group of all 65-year-old in Korea increased from 18.15 years in 2005 to 19.75 years in 2010 and DFLE increased from 11.41 years in 2005 to 11.64 years in 2010. Regionally, the highest LE for total of 65-year-olds was found to be the entire Jeju area and DFLE was the highest in the city of Seoul. And the highest LE and the highest DFLE for 65-year-old male were found to be in the city of Seoul. Regarding the regional LE of 65-year-old female, both in 2005 and 2010 Jeju area was seen to be the highest. The results of a correlation analysis showed that the DFLE of 65-year-olds in 2010 was found to be increasing with high LE and high population density and in regions with low average temperatures, low number of beds and low age standardized death rates of malignant neoplasms and circulatory disease.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.8074-8088
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• 2015

In this study, main focus was analyzing whether the retired middle-aged people's life style and personal characteristics affect house selection attributes and there are any differences according to their life styles. The finding and implications of this study were as follows. The middle-aged people were trying to pursue leisurely and healthy life. Therefore, they prefer the high service quality of health, medical facilities, culture, leisure, and entertainment facilities. These trends were caused by the expansion of the five-days working styles, the improvements of the smart consumptions, the high levels of the education, and the high social and economic participations of the females. The overall changes in social, cultural, economical circumstances made them different from other generations. Also current middle-aged people were more challenging and active and they thought themselves young compared with the people of the older generation. In the future those middle-aged people's life style will be more diversified. Therefore new housing plans are necessary for the middle-aged popple to satisfy their diverse housing needs and housing circumstances. Based on the results of this study for the middle-aged people's life style and housing selection attributes after their retirement, more studies are necessary in new and different views. Furthermore diverse house supplies, housing marketing, housing policies should be provided for the middle-aged people for their retirement and need to study more their future housing satisfaction and their housing needs.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.61-78
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• 2021

This study aims to understand the thematic trends globally developed in the 'Green Urbanism' related research. Research methodology is based on systemic review of international literature published for the past 20 years period between 2000 and 2020. The specific methods applied include not only literature search by citation, co-authorship, and co-occurrence but social network analysis in order to find correlations among the publication. The correlations are visualized and analysed using VOSviewer and Ucinet software. The analysis indicates that total of 51 studies were carried out by 89 authors from 54 institutions across 21 countries during the period. The majority of the research was done by a country-specific study and only a few research were collaborative studies with other countries. The most common theme that occurred in the early years was 'sustainability and the theme evolved toward specific ones such as 'built environment', 'infrastructure', and 'health'. Having considered that climate change has become a global challenge, green urbanism is expected to be a future direction to pursue environmentally sustainable urban spaces. This study also implies that governance, policy support, and intervention are crucial factors in developing sustainable urban spaces.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.221-234
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• 2020

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify the policy compliance according to the socio-demographic characteristics, stress, satisfaction of relationship, Health Belief Model and characteristics of smoking behaviors and knowledge related smoking of the residents living in the Smoke-free apartment and to investigate the change of the smoking related behavior before and after the implementation of the policy. Methods: The subjects of the survey were 293 residents aged 19 or older who reside in apartments six months after the designation of Smoke-free apartment located in Daejeon. All collected data were analyzed using T-test, ANOVA and Hierarchical multiple regression of SPSS for windows(ver 24.0) program. Results: The policy compliance was higher in women and those who lived for less than two years, and non-smokers were significantly higher. The policy compliance of the whole subjects was related to satisfaction with the surrounding relationship, perceived disability about smoking cessation, frequency of smoking and the amount of smoking. The policy compliance of the whole subjects was related to the satisfaction of the surrounding relationship, the perceived disability about smoking cessation, and the amount of smoking. In addition, after the implementation of the gold research station designation policy, it had a positive impact on smoker's smoking behavior and resulted in reducing the frequency of secondhand smoke among residents. Conclusions: In order to increase the compliance of the non-smoking policy It is necessary to continuously expand the indoor smoking cessation zone policy, develop policies and supplement the health belief model components.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.682-689
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• 2019

This study aims to spatialize the gap between obesity levels through the body mass index, an objective indicator of the level of health among vulnerable people. Thus, areas where the BMI showed cluster patterns with spatial high and low values were extracted and the characteristics of the region were analyzed. The analysis showed that the I statistics for the obesity rate were 0.07 and the z-score was 4.39, confirming spatial autocorrelation. For z-score, it was much larger than the maximum threshold of 2.57. This means that the rate of obesity among the socially vulnerable is regional, and this gap is spatially significant. The results of comparing and analyzing the local environment for these areas of obesity and health care were found to be areas with poor public transportation, less readily available parks, and a concentration of single and multi-generation housing. The analysis results of this study are meaningful in that they provide spatial implications for the health of the socially vulnerable class that previous studies have neglected.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2001

There are many research Papers and experiments indicating that the geomagnetic field affects the people and living organism. People grow up and build up most of their character through living in dwelling space and have relax and refresh at home. Creating healthy dwelling space is being considered very important in architectural planning and design for providing comfortable living environment and improving quality of life. Therefore. it is necessary to investigate the geomagnetic field and people's response in living space. In this study the vertical component(Z value) of geomagnetic field in detached houses was measured, evaluated by related evaluation criteria, compared with interview survey.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.68-79
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• 1994

본 연구에서는 주부가 가족자원을 적정하게 지각하는데 영향을 미치는 요인과 주부의 가정관리수행에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하고, 가족자원에 대한 적정지각이 가정관리수 행에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 규명하고자 한다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 주부는 대인관 계자원과 주거자원에 대한 적저지각이 가장 높고, 건강자원, 지식.기술자원, 시간자원, 지역사회자원, 금전자원의 순으로 저정하게 지각하고 있다. 둘째, 전체 가족자원적정지각에 영향을 미치는 변수는 학력, 월평균소득, 취업유무, 하루평균 가사노동시간, 주택소유형태, 내구재소유수이다. 세째, 주부의 대상별 가정 관리수행 수준에서는 기질.성격에 대한 관리수행 수준이 가장 높고, 그 다음은 애정관리이며, 지식.기술에 대한 수행이 가장 낮게 나타났다. 네 째, 주부의 대상별 가정관리수행에 전반적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 변수는 주부가 지각하는 남편의 가사조력도이다. 끝으로, 전체 대상별 가정관리수행은 전체 가족자원적정지각과 정적상관을 가지며, 주부가 지식.기술자원을 보다 적정하게 지각할수록 전체관리수행 수준은 높게 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.293-294
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• 2000

실내 이산화질소의 주요 오염원으로는 취사 및 보조난방기구 등의 연료 연소와 실외의 이산화질소가 환기 및 공기의 흐름에 의한 실내로 유입되는 경우를 들 수 있다. 이산화질소는 부식성이 있는 강한 산화 가스로써 대기중에 존재하면 숨이 막히고 자극적인 코를 찌르는 냄새를 유발한다. 일반적으로 호흡에 의해 이산화질소 노출농도의 80∼90%가 체내로 흡수될 수 있으며, 많은 연구에서 2ppm 이상의 이산화질소 농도가 건강한 성인의 폐기능을 약화시키거나 상당히 변화시킬 수 있다고 밝혀졌다(WHO, 1987). (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.449-450
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• 2001

주거공간에서는 특히 연소시 발생되는 오염물질이 많이 존재하며 이러한 오염 물질들은 두통과 호흡기계를 자극하는 등 인체 건강에 유해한 영향을 줄 수 있다. 실내 이산화질소의 주요 오염원으로는 취사 및 보조난방기구 등의 연료 연소와 실외의 이산화질소가 환기 및 공기의 흐름에 의해 실내로 유입되는 경우를 들 수 있다. 이산화질소는 부식성이 있는 강한 산화 가스로써 대기중에 존재하면 숨이 막히고 자극적인 코를 찌르는 냄새를 유발하며 이러한 악취의 역치는 0.11∼0.22ppm에서 존재한다(WHO, 1987). (중략)