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Health Care Reform for Sustainability of Health Insurance (건강보험의 지속을 위한 개혁과제)

  • Lee, Kyu-Sik
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.1-26
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    • 2010
  • We achieved both industrialization and democratization during the shortest period in the world. We also achieved good performance in national health insurance: universal coverage, solidarity in financing, equitable access of health care. However, national health insurance system has faced the problem of sustainability: various expenditure and financing problems. The problem of sustainablity has two facets of economic sustainability and fiscal sustainability. Economic sustainability refers to growth in health spending as a proportion of gross domestic product(GDP). Rapid increasing rate of health spending exceeds the growth rate of domestic product. Growth in health spending is more likely to threaten other areas of economic activity. Concern on fiscal sustainability relates to revenue and expenditure on health care. Health care financing face demographic and technical obstacles. Democratic obstacle is aging problem. Technical obstacle is collection of contribution. Expenditure of health care has various problems in benefit structure and efficiency of health care system. In this article, I suggest several policy reforms to enhance sustainability: generating additional revenue from value added tax, changing method of levying contribution, increasing efficiency of health care system by introducing the competition principle. restructuring of benefit scheme of health insurance. contracting with health care institutions to provide health care services.

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A Study on the Legal Control of Aircraft Terrorism by International Criminal Court(A Suggestion for the Amendment of ICC Statute) (국제형사재판소(國際刑事載判所)통한 항공기(航空機)테러범죄 규제에 관한 연구- ICC규정(規程)개정 위한 입법론적 고찰을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Man-Ho
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.15
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    • pp.40-66
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this paper is to investigate the legal controㅣ, by using the International Criminal Court(ICC) that will enter into force to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, and regulates the jurisdiction with respect to the following crimes: (a) The crime of genocide; (b) Crimes against humanity; (c) War crimes; Cd) The crime of aggression. However, the existing ICC Statute excludes (e) Crimes, established under or pursuant to the treaty, which was regulated by the ICC draft statute that the International Law Commission(ILC) examined and submitted to the UN General Assembly in 1994, and which contained aircraft terrorism such as hijacking in the Hague Convention of 1970 or sabotage in the Montreal Convention of 1971 in Annex of ILC draft. Therefore, this paper examines the legal character of aircraft terrorism as one of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, and suggests two kinds of legislative comments for the amendment of the ICC Statute including aircraft terrorism as an object of the jurisdiction of the Court, for suppressing aircraft terrorism in advance and ensuring equitable penalty by ICC system.

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A Study on Characteristics of Male's Make-up (남성 메이크업의 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Hye-Kyun
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.11
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    • pp.635-640
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    • 2012
  • A changed image that they feel through makeup manipulates impression by linking with cultural standards and will be able to direct a variety of makeup images. Makeup in modern society has been expanding into the area of prevention of diseases and health of skin due to the development of cosmetics and has beautifully changed a face into a someone else's face due to the development of makeup technique. Also, assuming that motivation of makeup act of men and women is related to sexual instincts, I tried to analyze what kind of association the gender roles and the function of makeup required by the society has with age and regional and social background. In particular, I tried to explain that makeup act of men not only represents cognitive change of gender roles that have been perceived differently in modern society but has been adopted by men for the pure purpose in a socially equitable competition.

Application of the Cost-Distance Measures for Designating Zone Boundaries in DIF Zoning

  • Choi, Joon Young;Choei, Nae Young
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.3-13
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    • 2016
  • The development impact fee (DIF) zoning is used to adequately provide the pre-planned urban infrastructures in those urban and regional sectors where significant urban sprawl has already taken place followed by the rapid population growth. The infrastructure installation fees are levied to those landowners whose properties belong to the DIF zone in which they enjoy the direct benefits that accrue from the installed infrastructures. While the law is deemed to be equitable in that the actual beneficiaries pay for their benefits, it is required to designate the zone boundaries accurately and consistently since they are the very dividers that differentiate the legitimate fee-payers and the free-riders. This study, especially, tries to test a seemingly advanced alternative, so-called the cost-weighted distance measure, as a potential candidate to replace the current air-distance measures to designate the zone boundaries. The statistics indicate that the coefficient of variation for major indices spread from 11.75 to 35.6 in the case of the latter method, it only ranges from 0.21 to 0.76 in the case of the former. The zonal outcomes also show much higher consistency in their shapes. It is hoped, in this context, that the study findings could possibly be adopted in the future research efforts expected soon to amend and improve the current DIF zoning law.

A Study on Business Failure and Reorganization (기업도산과 정리에 관한 고찰)

  • 여동길;반성식
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.5 no.7
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 1982
  • The objective of this study is review effective business reorganization measures for tackling financial difficulties for financial managers. The major cause of business failure is incompetent management. Business failure occurs when a company is unable to meet its current obligations, or the net worth of the company is negative : usually the signs of business failure are predictable in advance of its actual accurrence. Discriminant analysis as well as other analytical tools - profile analysis, dichotomous analysis, analysis of likelihood ratios - have been used to predict business failure on the basis of various financial ratios , among those, discriminant analysis has been tell known an excellent technique in predicting business failure. The first question to be raised is whether the business is better off, dead or alive. Assuming the decision is made that the firm should survive, reorganization procedure should be considered. The informal procedures of voluntary settlements used in reorganization are extension : composition and liquidation by voluntary agreement. Unless this settlement is possible by those means, the case goes to the courts for 1ega1 solution. If the court decides on reorganization rather than liquidation, it will appoint a trustee to control the firm for reorganization and to prepare a formal plan of reorganization. the plan must meet the stand of fair, equitable and feasible. In that case, the court will approve the plan.

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A Study on Transfer Pricing Taxation Regulations - Laying Focus on Intangibles (우리 나라의 이전가격과세제도(移轉價格課稅制度)에 관한 연구 - 무형재화(無形財貨)를 중심(中心)으로 -)

  • Kim, Ju-Teak
    • Korean Business Review
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    • v.11
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    • pp.319-341
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    • 1998
  • Transfer pricing is a process for determining the prices of products, technology and services among affiliated companies. Although taxation problems arising from international investment are not now, they have become more important in recent years as a consequence of the growing internationalization of economic activities. So, trans pricing to shift their income and expenses from one country to another has made it difficult for tax administrations to impose tax collectly. Our government also applies arm' length methods to decide equitable tax. In the case of intangibles, because of the characteristics of the market, it is not easy to find the comparable uncontrolled transactions and it is almost impossible to apply cost=plus method or resale price method. This paper treats these problem, examining U.S. regulations and OECD guidelines and analysing the practice of transactions and the application of other methods.

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The Association between Children's and Mother's Ambulatory Care Utilization (어린이의 의료이용과 엄마의 의료이용간의 관계)

  • Park, Hyun-Ae;Song, Kun-Yong
    • 모자간호학회지
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.24-32
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    • 1994
  • Using data from the Korean National Health Survey conducted in the years 1989 and 1992, child and maternal ambulatory care utilization patterns were compared. Data from 3,002 families from the 1989 survey and 1,523 families from the 1992 survey which have a child 0-4 years old and mother in the same family were selected and used for the analysis. The results indicate that child medical utilization is closely accociated with maternal medical utilization, as measured by the number of visits to medical facilities. Maternal use appears to be a more powerful predictor of child use than any other family and maternal variables. These results confirm the result of the previous localized studies and suggest that intervention directed at the mother may be effective in ensuring equitable and efficient use of ambulatory services by childeren.

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A Study of Restaurant Servers' Perceptions of Asian Customers in the U.S.: From the Perspective of Physical Appearance (미국 레스토랑 서버들의 아시아 고객인식에 대한 연구: 외모적 관점에서)

  • Bae, Gumkwang;Kim, Dae-Young
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.146-157
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    • 2013
  • The main purpose of this study was to investigate restaurant servers' perceptions of Asian customers in the U.S. based on physical appearance. Servers' tipping expectation and intention to give quality service were measured by manipulated photographs featuring three aspects of physical appearance (i.e., gender, attire, obesity). Repeated-measures ANOVA was performed to compare eight conditions created by these combinations of three physical appearance factors. The results showed that servers' tipping expectation and intention to give quality service differed according to Asian customers' physical appearance, and the relationship between attire and gender was also found. The research findings are expected to provide managers with guidelines that offer equitable service.

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Development and Performance Analysis of Elementary School Health Promotion Policy Guideline (초등학교의 학교보건정책 지침개발 및 수행정도 분석 - WHO의 건강증진학교 지침을 중심으로 -)

  • Chung, Young-Sook;Han, Joo-Hee;Lee, Chun-Ok;Kwon, In-Sook;Lee, Chung-Yul
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.457-467
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    • 2003
  • Purpose: This study examined the development and performance of the school health promotion policy guideline that is applicable to Korean school health. Methods: 1. The WHO's guideline was translated into Korean and modified by school health experts 2. A questionnaire was conducted to assess the performance of school health policy on 207 nurses in elementary schools in Seoul and Cheonbuk. Result: The Korean version of the school health promotion policy guidelines were developed including 9 components and 36 checkpoints. Compared to that of WHO, the component 'school nursing teacher' was added and three components were eliminated: 'equitable access to school resources', 'control of helminth', and 'sun protection policy'. The performance degree of first-aid, closure of school in a calamity, and control of HIV/AIDS was very low. The performance degree of a healthy diet, and regular physical examination was quite high. This study was the first that developed the school health promotion policy guideline and examined the performance. Further research is needed to validate the guidelines developed by this study.

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Optimal Distribution of Public Health Administration between Local and Central Government (중앙-지방 정부간 보건행정기능 및 재원의 효율적 배분방안)

  • 양봉민;김진현
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.33-56
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    • 1992
  • The objectives of this research are (i) to review the functional and financial distribution of public health adminstration between central and local governments, (ii) to find out, based on economic criteria, optimal distribution required to fullfil local need for public health, and finally, (iii) to suggest policy implications in health area in face of the newly arising local autonomy system in Korea. Judging from data on government expenditures and tax revenues, public health administration in Korea is highly concentrated into central government, both functionlally and financially. High dependency of public health on central government has often been critisized that local residents can not participate in the decision making process for local health problems. This study, however, shows that localization of public health administration does not necessarily result in efficient and equitable allocation of resource to satisfy local demand for public health. From this point of view, two eccnomic criteria are suggested, i.e. external effect and economies of scle, as distributive criteria of roles in public health administration between local and central government. In addition, superiority of central concentration of public health administration to localization is emphasized in that public health in a wide sense contains the nature of public good and is part of compulsory socil security system. As a consequence, planned intervention by government is desirable.

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