• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.7-15
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• 2014

Purpose: This study is to propose direction for healing environment design in hospital architecture considering the characteristics of elderly patients. The primary goal of a public hospital is providing cheap health care and quality service chance to the underprivileged and elderly in the dead zone. Compared to the rapid increase of the aged population and chronic diseases, Ministry of Health & Welfare is currently planning model of health promotion hospital in development plans of local based public hospital. Due to the increased elderly medical expenses, elderly patients' high utilization is considered. Methods: The literature on the design factors of healing environments were investigated. based on this, analyzed drawings of surveyed hospitals ward in architectural characteristics and observe and evaluate directly healing environment design through field surveys. Results: The design of hospital environment affects patient's therapeutic effect. There is no any official formula for hospital design but environment that architect create could be a big part of the healing process. To increase the quality of the environment, apply the characteristic factors and harmonize well as a human-centered healing environment. Implications: Healing environment design for the elderly is first necessary condition due to high proportion of elderly patients.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2008

The aim of this study is to analyze the causes of the network system of the public and private sections that cannot be cooperated in implementation process of disaster relief. For this objective, this study selects the concepts of policy actors, their relationships, and their interactions which are useful in analyzing policy networks. It focuses on the interaction among concerned actors of disaster relief policy. This study suggests how to improve policy networks of disaster relief focusing on the interaction among policy actors. For more effective implementation to disaster relief, however, it is necessary to strengthen public-private partnership rather than central management system. Therefore, future research on disaster relief needs to focus in network management for leading cooperation between public and private sections.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.7-15
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to suggest the improvement of the architectural planning of public hospitals by analyzing the contents of the architectural planning and the trend of the recent ward planning. Methods: The study method was the drawing analysis of the wards in the public hospitals where facilities were improved including the ward-related literature survey. The scope of the study was the general wards. Results: As a result of the study, the area composition of the ward area, the number of beds per nursing unit, the floorplan types, and the unit space planning which is included the room composition, the room size, the bed clearance areas, and the improvements of the nursing space were suggested. Implications: The result of this research would be useful as a reference to design nurse area in the wards.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.27-36
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• 2015

Purpose : Ministry of Health & Welfare started to 'Comprehensive care ward' project for patient hospitalization in order to help the economic and medical By providing comprehensive care services through professional nursing staff since 2013. Many physical environments changes are expected by providing comprehensive care services. The purpose of this study is to investigate the comprehensive care services and identify the problems of the corresponding physical environment usage. Methods : Data were collected through research, field surveys, and expert interviews to analyze and investigate the physical environment of the 'Comprehensive care ward'. Results : Physical environments changes in accordance with the comprehensive care services provided in 'Comprehensive care ward' are being only partially achieved. It have to considered not only ward environmental improvement for nursing services provided directly to the patient, but Including nurses warehousing space, work space. Implications : Comprehensive care ward project is scheduled to be operational even some wards throughout the hospital since 2018. This study is basic research for architectural planning of the future ward with comprehensive care services in public hospital.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.41-52
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• 2013

Purpose: This paper tries to set up the design guidelines for the 4 bedroom in Public Hospital wards as the standard multi-bed room in order to upgrade the bedroom environment, increase inpatients' and nurses' satisfaction level, and decrease cross infection possibility. Methods: Literature survey containing legal standards related to hospital bedrooms in Korea, Japan and Germany have been conducted. Questionnaires have been distributed to inpatients and nurses in 39 Public Hospital, and face to face talk with ward nurses in 9 Public Hospitals have been conducted. Thereafter 10 architectural drawings, 28 questionnaires from nurses and 544 questionnaires from inpatients have been analysed. Results: This article suggests some design guidelines and example drawings of standard 4 bedroom unit in Public Hospital. Implications: The result of this research would be useful as a reference when the architect tries to design a Four-bed room unit in Hospitals.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.15-26
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• 2014

Purpose: This study aims to suggest the architectural planning guidelines for the nurse area and patients' convenient facilities design of the wards in central public hospitals of the communities. Methods: In order to suggest architectural planning guidelines, expert's interview, field survey and analysis of the floor plan have been conducted in this paper. Results: This paper presents room configurations and space program, which determines the areas and structures of the spaces in the wards. Also it suggests the examples of floor plans which contains how to design nurse area and convenient facilities of the patient in the wards. Implications: The result of this research would be useful as a reference when the architect tries to design nurse area and convenient facilities of the patient of the wards.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.197-215
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• 2013

This study generated the suggestions to minimize the duplicated cultural programs offered by various regional public service institutions via promoting effective collaboration among the institutions with the limited local resources while making the public libraries as the center of the partnership. We measured the level of program duplicability; conducted statistical analysis of the cultural program offering; and analyzed program participation status as well as the participation surveys. This led to the following results: 1) public libraries focused on offering humanities general education related programs; 2) participants had high expectations on the reading and writing programs; and 3) social welfare organizations offered programs, which targeted the older population, and the corresponding participants had high satisfaction rate. According to the results, the institutions including the public libraries should take into account of the ages and preferences of the potential participants when offering various programs. In addition, the public libraries should continue to offer humanities general education as well as information use programs.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.366-374
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• 2015

This study investigated what factors would affect suicidal ideation of the people who have received public assistance. For the purpose, the survey results of the 7th year(2012) of Korea Welfare Panel Study, which were conducted by Korea Institute for health and Social Affairs and Social Welfare Research Institute of Seoul National University, were used for analysis. In order to figure out the level of influence on the suicidal ideation, a binary logistic regression analysis using a binary logistic model was used as an analysis method. As a result, it was found that when the subjects are middle school graduates, and if they are married, there are low suicidal ideation. Also, the higher their self-esteem is and the higher their satisfaction with public assistance, the lower there they have suicidal ideation. Furthermore, it was proved that if they have depression, or in middle age, they have high possibility of suicidal ideation. It was proved that satisfaction with public assistance also can have influence on the suicidal ideation of the poor class, not only physical and psychological factors. Therefore, measuring the satisfaction of the recipients with public assistance can be one of the significant factors that affects suicidal ideation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.55-79
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• 2007

As Korea enters into an aging society, the problem of information literacy against senior citizens is becoming a socioeconomic issue in Korea. Since most of the public libraries in Korea are already equipped with infrastructures for information dissemination, they may be able to solve this problem most effectively among public organizations. In this study in order to investigate senior citizen's general understanding of public library, cognizance of the programs for them. their information request levels, preferred contents, information seeking behavior, etc., 176 participants in educational programs at two senior citizens' welfare center were interviewed and surveyed with structured questionnaires. The statistical analysis of the surveyed data has shown that the senior citizen's general understanding of public library was very poor and that those under 75 years old preferred educational programs and those over 75 preferred recreational ones. Recommendations were made based on the results of the analysis.

• Proceedings of the KHMA Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.279-279
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• 2010