• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.153-159
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• 2002

전라남도의 일개 군에서 1998년 1월 1일부터 1998년 12월 31일까지 사망으로 신고된 건수는 총 504건이었으며, 이중 설문조사와 의무기록조사로 확인사인의 추정이 가능했던 388건을 연구대상으로 하였다. 확인사인을 신고사인과 비교하고 사망자와 사망관련 변수, 신고자의 특성 그리고 사망신고담당 공무원의 특성에 따른 양자간의 일치율을 통해 신고사인의 정확성과 관련된 인자를 파악하였다. 신고사인과 확인사인의 전체적 일치율은 19대 분류상 62.6%을 보였다. 19대 분류에 의한 사인별 일치율을 보면 손상, 중독 및 사망의 외인이 가장 높았고, 그 다음으로는 내분비, 영양 및 대사질환, 신생물, 순환기계질환 순이었다. 반면에 낮은 일치율을 보인 질환은 피부 및 피하조직의 질환, 근골격계 질환, 정신 및 행동장애 이었다. 사망자 및 사망관련변수에 따른 확인사인과 신고사인의 일치율은 사망자가 남자일 때, 사망 연령이 50대와 60대일 때, 그리고 사망원인 진단자가 의사일 때 높았다. 신고자의 특성별로는 신고자의 연령이 증가함에 따라 일치율이 감소하였으며, 신고자의 교육 정도와 직업과도 유의한 관련성이 있었다. 또한 사망신고 담당 공무원의 특성에 따라서는 공무원의 직급이 6급인 경우 7급 이상인 경우에 비해 일치율이 높았다. 확인사인과 신고사인의 일치여부를 종속변수로 하여 단변량분석을 실시한 후 통계적으로 의미 있는 변수에 대한 로지스틱 회귀분석의 결과를 보면, 사망원인 진단자가 의사인 경우 비차비 2.67(95% 신뢰구간: 1.21-5.89)로 높았으며, 사망신고담당 공무원의 직급이 7급 이상인 경우 비차비 0.30(95%신뢰구간: 0.12-0.78)로 낮았다. 사망신고자료에 기재된 신고사인의 정확성과 관련된 요인에 대한 결과를 종합하여 볼 때 무엇보다 중요한 일은 사망을 의사로 하여금 진단하게 하는 일이다. 또한 사망신고담당 공무원의 업무를 명확히 해야 하며 이들을 대상으로 하는 정기적이며 강화된 교육도 강조되어야 할 것이다.

• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.137-153
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• 1996

Through the classification of region and kinds of illness about the death of vagrants from 1906 to 1942, the results on the study of vagrants under the rule of Japanese imperialism are followings.1. The statistics about the death of vagrants from 1906 to 1912 have no coherence. So this study excludes that time.2. A mental disease as a cause of death of vagrants is 25.4%. It shows the highest ratio of all the other diseases.3. A mental, nervous disease among the cause of vagrants' death is 15%.4. On outbreak ration of mental disease is 26.7 times in men, 24.6 times in women higher, and on nervous disease 48.1 times in man, 48.9 times in woman higher than Japanese.5. Regional outbreak ratio is higher than Japan. The orders are Chonlabukdo, Chungcheongbukdo, Hwanghaedo, Kangwondo. The above results show that vagrants under the rule of Japanese imperialim is produced by cause of disease. The cause of vagrants' death is also related to social situation at that times. And it accord with the basis of documents. The relation between the death of vagrants and mental, nervous disease are considered to be studied in detailI.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.142-149
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• 1977

To use basic data for health planning and evaluation of Kangwha community health project of Yonsei University, a study on death rates and causes of death were investigated in two townships (Naega and Sunwon Myuns) in Kangwha County from April 1, 1975 to March 31, 1977 All death was identified and reported by family health workers who are living in each village and 2 trained public health nurses confirmed the death. The causes of death were investigated by 2 public physicians. Total number of deaths for 2 years was 230 and the followings are brief summary of the study. 1. Age-adjusted crude death rates of study area were 8.69 per 1,000 population in 1975 and 7.18 per 1,000 population in 1976. Age-adjusted crude death rates for male were 9.18 in 1975 and 6.38 in 1976 and for female were 8.33 and 7.80 per 1,000 population 2. Age specific death rate curves by year and sex showed 'U' shapes. 3. Infant and neonatal death rates were 30.08 and 22.56 per 1,000 live births in 1975, and the rates in 1976 were 18.18 and 13.64. 4. The most common cause of death was cerebrovascular disease and average cause specific death rate for the disease was 215.5 per 100,000 population. 5. Four leading causes of death were non-infectious origin; cerebrovascular disease, malignant neoplasms, senility and suicide. Pulmonary tubeculosis and pneumonia occupied 5th and 9th causes of death. 6. Stomach cancer and hepatoma occupied 61.3% of total death due to malignant neoplasms. 7. Most frequent cause of neonatal death was birth injury. Two deaths due to tetanus were found in 1975, but no death due to this disease was found in 1976. 8. About half of deceased received care from physician before death.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.5681-5685
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• 2012

Three kinds of survival rates are generally used depending on the purpose of the investigation: overall, cause-specific, and relative. The differences among these 3 survival rates are derived from their respective formulas; however, reports based on actual cancer registry data are few because of incomplete information and short follow-up duration recorded on cancer registration. The aim of this study was to numerically and visually compare these 3 survival rates on the basis of data from the Nagasaki Prefecture Cancer Registry. Subjects were patients diagnosed with cancer and registered in the registry between 1999 and 2003. We calculated the proportion of cause of death and 5-year survival rates. For lung, liver, or advanced stage cancers, the proportions of cancer-related death were high and the differences in survival rates were small. For prostate or early stage cancers, the proportions of death from other causes were high and the differences in survival rates were large. We concluded that the differences among the 3 survival rates increased when the proportion of death from other causes increased.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.265-275
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• 2017

본 연구는 장례식장에서 사망자를 위생적으로 관리하기 위해 사망의 장소, 종류 및 원인 등 사망자들의 유형에 따라 체액 분출 등 사후 어떤 변화가 있는지 알아보고자 하였다. 사망자 858명을 대상으로 조사한 결과 평균 연령은 68.6세이며, 주요 사망의 원인은 83.0%가 병사이며, 사망 장소는 79.5%가 의료기관에서 발생되었다. 사망자에서 발생되는 체액 분출율은 전체 사망자의 46.2%에서 조사되었고, 사망의 종류에 따라서는 사고사가 78.8%로 가장 높고, 노화사는 10.8%로 가장 낮았다. 사망의 장소에 따른 의료기관 사망자는 46.3%, 주택 사망자는 38.6%인데 반해 기타 장소는 77.4%로 높았다. 사망의 원인으로 직접, 중간 및 선행 사인이 기록된 사망자 수는 크게 다르지만 체액 분출 비율은 비슷하였다. 장기 및 계통별 사망자 수는 직접, 중간 및 선행 사인 모두 호흡기질환과 심장질환 사망자 수가 가장 많고, 체액 분출은 직접 사인은 간질환 사망자가 가장 높고 소화기 및 혈액순환계 순이며, 중간 및 선행 사인에서는 기타 및 사고사가 가장 높은 비율을 보였다. 사망의 원인에 기록된 질병을 기준으로 한 사망자 수는 직접 사인은 심폐부전이 96명으로 가장 많고 폐렴 및 패혈증 순이며, 체액 분출은 사망자 수가 15명 이상 기준으로 담관암(73.3%)이 가장 높고, 췌장암, 중증뇌손상 및 간암 순으로 많았다. 따라서 사망자의 위생적 관리를 위해서는 보다 정확한 질병명과 발병기간을 명시하도록 하여야 하고, 사망자 이송과정에서는 관련 정보가 문서화 되고 체계적인 전달 시스템이 될 수 있도록 제도화 하여야 할 것이다.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.142-161
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• 2009

Objectives: There are many unknowns surrounding Jeong-Jo's death. To better understand Jeong-Jo's death, we closely inspected his medical records from the 20 days before his death in The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty (朝鮮王朝實錄) and Seungjeongwon Ilgi (承政院日記), Understanding medical treatment before death, we can correctly trace the cause of Jeong-Jo's death. Methods: According to The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty (朝鮮王朝實錄) and Seungjeongwon Ilgi (承政院日記), we examined his medical records between June 14 and June 28 of 1800, as to the change in chief complaint, cold and heat, thirst, syndrome differentiation, the opinions of Jeong-Jo, and the opinions of doctors, The original work, The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty and Seungjeongwon Ilgi were provided by NIKH (The National Institute of Korean History). The Korean translation of The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty was also provided by NIKH. Seungjeongwon Ilgi (original work written in Chinese characters) was directly translated into Korean by the study author. Results: 1. Jeong-Jo's is likely to have died of septicemia caused by an abscess on his back. 2. The cause of Jeong-Jo's death could be stroke due to hypertension, mental stress, and 'Wha (火) disease' Conclusions: The dominant view that Jeong-Jo was murdered by poison is not likely.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2014

Objective : The case fatality rate of nonlesional intracerebral hemorrhage (n-ICH) was high and not changed. Knowing the causes is important to their prevention; however, the reasons have not been studied. The aims of this study were to determine the cause of death, to improve the clinical outcomes. Methods : We retrospectively analyzed consecutive cases of nonlesional intracerebral hemorrhage in a prospective stroke registry from January 2010 to December 2010. Results : Among 174 patients ($61.83{\pm}13.36$, 28-90 years), 29 patients (16.7%) died during hospitalization. Most common cause of death was initial neurological damage (41.4%, 12/29). Seventeen patients who survived the initial damage may then develop various potentially fatal complications. Except for death due to the initial neurological sequelae, death associated with immobilization (such as pneumonia or thromboembolic complication) was the most common in eight cases (8/17, 47.1%). However, death due to early rebleeding was not common and occurred in only 2 cases (2/17, 11.8%). Age, initial Glasgow Coma Scale, and diabetes mellitus were statistically significant factors influencing mortality (p<0.05). Conclusion : Mortality of n-ICH is still high. Initial neurological damage is the most important factor; however, non-neurological medical complications are a large part of case fatality. Most cases of death of patients who survived from the first bleeding were due to complications of immobilization. These findings have implications for clinical practice and planning of clinical trials. In addition, future conduct of a randomized study will be necessary in order to evaluate the benefits of early mobilization for prevention of immobilization related complications.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.4307-4309
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• 2014

Purpose: To calculate the probability of one person's life-time death caused by a malignant tumor and provide theoretical basis for cancer prevention. Materials and Methods: The probability of one person's death caused by a tumor was calculated by a probability additive formula and based on an abridged life table. All data for age-specific mortality were from the third retrospective investigation of death cause in China. Results: The probability of one person's death caused by malignant tumor was 18.7% calculated by the probability additive formula. On the same way, the life-time death probability caused by lung cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal and anal cancer were 4.47%, 3.62%, 3.25%, 2.25%, 1.11%, respectively. Conclusions: Malignant tumor is still the main cause of death in one's life time and the most common causes of cancer death were lung, gastric, liver, esophageal, colorectal and anal cancers. Targeted forms of cancer prevention and treatment strategies should be worked out to improve people's health and prolong life in China. The probability additive formula is a more scientific and objective method to calculate the probability of one person's life-time death than cumulative death probability.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.335-337
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• 2014

To determine the cause of death of prisoners of war during the Korean War (1950-1953), death certificates or medical records were analyzed. Out of 7,614 deaths, 5,013 (65.8%) were due to infectious diseases. Although dysentery and tuberculosis were the most common infectious diseases, parasitic diseases had caused 14 deaths: paragonimiasis in 5, malaria in 3, amoebiasis in 2, intestinal parasitosis in 2, ascariasis in 1, and schistosomiasis in 1. These results showed that paragonimiasis, malaria, and amoebiasis were the most fatal parasitic diseases during the early 1950s in the Korean Peninsula. Since schistosomiasis is not endemic to Korea, it is likely that the infected private soldier moved from China or Japan to Korea.

• 한국인구학
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.65-83
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• 1993

The purpose of this study is estimate limits of Korean life expectancy at birth by 'Gompertz growth curse Model', 'Cause-Elimination Model' and Multidimensional models of Senescencee and Mortality'. Data used in Gompertz curve were obtained from all life tables published from 1905 to 1990 in Korea, and life expectancies at birth of eighteen groups were selected at five-year interval in consideration of time-series changes. Data used in Cause-Elimination Model are 'Cause of Death statistics in 1991' published in 1992 by National Bureau of Statistics of Korea and 'life table of 1989' published in 1990 by National Bureau of Statistics, Economic Planning Board of Korea. The materials are all classifiable death data, 119, 253 cases of male and 82, 420 cases of female, which is from 1991 Causes of Death statistics. The cases of death analyzed belong to one of 8 categories; i.e., Infectious and Parasitic Diseases(001-139; with notation of Infectious Diseases), Malignant Neoplasms(140-208), Hypertensive Diseases(401-405), Ischemic Heart Dieases and Diseases of Pulmonary Circulation and Other Forms of Heart Diseases(410-429;with notation of Heart Disease), Cerebrovascular Diseases(430-438), Chronic Liver Diseases and Cirrhosis(571; with notation of Liver Diseases), Injury and Poisoning(800-999) and all other disease. Data used in 'Multidimensional models of senescence and mortality' were life table of 1989 published by National Bureau of statistics, Economic Planning Board of Korea and life table of 1970, 1978-79, 1983, 1985 and 1987. The major findings may be summarised as follows: 1. Estimate equations of Gompertz growth curve using life expectancy at birth during the 1905-1990 period are as the following. Male : y = 88.047697 $\times$ $0.199690^{0.903381x}$ Female : y = 95.632828 $\times$ $0.199690^{0.903381x}$ Limits of life expectancy at birth, which were estimated by Gompertz growth curve, are 88.05 for male and 95.63 for female. 2. The effect on life expectancy at birth eliminationg all causes death is 14.04 years(for male) and 10.86 years(for female). Astonishingly, eliminating the malignant neoplasms increase life expectancy at birth by 2.85 years for male 2.03 years for female in 1991. In table 8 we show the effect on life expectancy at birth of separately eliminating each of the 8 categorical causes of death. The theoretical limit to life expectancy by Cause-Elimination Model is 80.96 for male and 85.82 for female. 3. If the same rate of delay [0.376 year(male), 0.435 year(femable) per calendar year] continued, then life expectancy at birth would reach 74.82(male) years and 84, 10(female) years in 2010. With 14.04-years(male) and 10.86-years(female) effect attributable in 2010 would be 88.86 years(male) and 94.96(femable) years. 4. 'Multidimensional models of senescence and death' permits calculations of the value of the attribution coefficient (B), percent of loss per year of physiologic function. The results of Ro and B during the 1970-1989 period are listed in table 9. Estimate of limit to Korean life expectancy at birth by 'Multidimensional models of senescence and death' is 99.47 years for male and 104.74 years for female in 1989.