• Title/Summary/Keyword: Female Working Conditions

검색결과 96건 처리시간 0.04초

Mental health symptoms among dependent contractors in Korea: a cross-sectional study based on the Fifth Korean Working Condition Survey

  • Seong-Uk Baek;Sung-Shil Lim;Sehyun Yun;Won-Tae Lee;Min-Seok Kim;Jin-Ha Yoon;Jong-Uk Won
    • Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
    • /
    • 제34권
    • /
    • pp.1.1-1.13
    • /
    • 2022
  • Background: Recently, there has been a call to improve the holistic welfare of dependent contractors (DCs). Thus, our study examined the relationship between DCs and mental health symptoms and how this relationship was modified by age, sex, and income status of workers. Methods: A total of 27,980 workers from the Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey are included in our study. The participants who reported having depression or anxiety over the last 12 months are defined those who had mental health symptoms. We performed exact matching for age group and sex, followed by conditional logistic regression with survey weights. Finally, stratified analyses by age, sex and income level were conducted. Results: DCs were found to be at increased risk of depression/anxiety compared to other workers. The odds ratio (OR) is 1.52 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.06-2.17). In the stratified analyses, vulnerable groups were middle-aged (OR [95% CI]: 1.68 [1.10-2.54]), female (OR [95% CI]: 1.85 [1.20-2.84]), and low-income (OR [95% CI]: 3.18 [1.77-5.73]) workers. Conclusions: Our study's results reinforce those of other studies that show that DCs are at greater risk of experiencing mental health issues than other workers and that and this risk is greater for middle-aged, female, and low-income workers. These results suggest that appropriate policy efforts should be made to improve the psychological well-being of DCs.

한국 간호사의 일과 삶의 균형에 영향을 미치는 요인 (Factors Influencing Work-life Balance in Korean Registered Nurses)

  • 정미숙;김현리;이윤정
    • 한국직업건강간호학회지
    • /
    • 제26권2호
    • /
    • pp.114-123
    • /
    • 2017
  • Purpose: This study aimed to explore personal as well as occupational factors and health status associated with work-life balance in Korean registered nurses. Methods: This study was a secondary data analysis using cross-sectional nationally representative data from the Korean Working Conditions Survey (KWCS) in 2014. Study participants included 450 registered nurses in South Korea. Descriptive analysis, Independent t-test, $x^2$ test, and Logistic regression analyses were performed using the SPSS 21.0 statistical program. Results: Work-life balance was reported in 70.6% individuals with 85.7% being male and 70.0% being female nurses. Logistic regression analysis revealed that being male good health state, having less than 40-hour working week, lower number of night duty, policy on flexible work arrangement were significant predictors of work-life balance. Conclusion: This study provided evidence that identify predictors of work-life balance in registered nurses in South Korea. Therefore, we need the actively support health care service promotion and prevention for work-life balance predictors.

Workplace Violence in Workers with Multi-Party Employment Arrangements: Results from the Korean National Representative Survey

  • Yoon, Yeogyeong;Jung-Choi, Kyunghee
    • Safety and Health at Work
    • /
    • 제13권1호
    • /
    • pp.93-98
    • /
    • 2022
  • Background: Despite a growing number of investigations exploring the health problems in precarious workers, there is still a paucity of studies investigating workplace violence in workers with multi-party employment arrangements (WMPEAs). This study was aimed at comparing the prevalence of workplace violence between non-WMPEA and WMPEA. Methods: The 5th Korean Working Conditions Survey data were used. The study subjects were employees aged 20-74, with 26,239 non-WMPEA and 1,556 WMPEA. WMPEA included temporary agency workers and workers providing outsourced services. Workplace violence including verbal abuse, unwanted sexual attention, threats, and humiliating behaviors were used as outcome variables. The odds ratios of risk of workplace violence were calculated using multiple logistic regression. Results: The age-standardized prevalence of workplace violence was significantly higher among WMPEA. After adjusting for all covariates, the risk of workplace violence among WMPEA was still significant (OR 1.80, 95% CI 1.5-2.2) compared with non-WMPEA. The odds ratio of workplace violence among female WMPEA was 1.99 (95% CI 1.53-2.59), which is higher than that of male WMPEA (OR 1.52, 95% CI 1.18-1.96). Conclusion: We found that WMPEA were exposed to higher risk of workplace violence. Discrimination against WMPEA in the working environment and management policy need to be corrected. It is also necessary to identify the risk factors of workplace violence in WMPEA and to make efforts to prevent violence.

국교 5년생의 성장발달에 관한 조사연구 I . 전국 5학년 생의 체격분포 (A Study on Anthropometric Data of 5 th Grade Students I. The Distribution of Physical Conditions)

  • 문현경
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
    • /
    • 제20권5호
    • /
    • pp.309-317
    • /
    • 1987
  • 우리나라 아동의 비만실태를 파악하기 위한 연구의 일환으로 전국의 국민학교 5학년 10.751명의 체격분포를 조사하였다. 건강기록부를 이용하요 1학년때 부터 학년까의 키, 몸무게를 분석하고 설문지를 이용하여 체격과 관련된 일반 현황 및 식품섭취 빈도를 조사하였다 1)조사대상아의 어머니 중 29%가 직업을 갖고 있었으며 출, 퇴근시간이 어린이의 영양관리를 제대로 할 수 없는 경우가 많았다. 조사대상아의 5.8%가 거의 매일 결식하였으며 건강을 위해 약제를 복용하는 경우가 26%였다. 2)키는 4학년까지는 남학생이 우세 하다가 5학년때는 남학생이 137.1cm, 여학생이 137.6cm 였다. 몸무게는 남녀 각각 31.5kg, 31.2kg였으며 키, 몸무게의 10, 25, 50, 70 ,90percentile 분포에 해당하는 값이 제시되었다. 고학년이 될수록 남학생의 키의 성장속도는 둔화된 반면 여학생은 오히려 증가였다. 몸무게는 학년이 높아지면서 남녀 모두 증가폭이 커졌으며 여학생의 증가폭이 더 컸다. 키와 몸무게를 이용하여 5년간 BMI, RI, RW 갑이 계산되었다. 3) 49% 아동이 우유를 매일 섭취 하였으며 과자, 계란, 아이스크림, 초코렛의 섭취빈도가 높은 반면 치즈, 햄, 두유의 섭취빈도는 매우 낮았다.

  • PDF

Sweating Rates and Thermoregulation in Male and Female Bali Cattle

  • Kasa, I Wayan
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
    • /
    • 제10권2호
    • /
    • pp.201-205
    • /
    • 1997
  • An experiment has been conducted to compare the sweating rate between male and female Bali cattle under tropical conditions in Bali, Indonesia with dry bulb (DB) temperatures varying from 25 to $34.5^{\circ}C$ and relative humidity (RH) 70 to 98%. Rectal temperature (Tr) was significantly different (p < 0.05) between males and females (39.7 vs $39.4^{\circ}C$ compared to 39.2 vs $38.8^{\circ}C$ on weeks 1 and 8 respectively). There were significant effects on RR associated with both $week{\times}sex$ (p < 0.01) and $sex{\times}time$ (p < 0.01) interactions, with values for males higher than females. Skin temperature (Ts) differed significantly between sexes (p <0.05), weeks (p < 0.05) and times (p < 0.01); being lower in females (36 vs $36.4^{\circ}C$). With prolonged working, there were marked increase in RR were recorded after 30 minutes (the overall increase was $12.4^{\circ}C$). Sweating rate (SR) differed significantly between sexes (p < 0.05), weeks (p < 0.01) and times (p < 0.01) during exercise. Females had a lower mean SR ($225.3g/m^2/h$) than males ($238.8g/m^2/h$). With increasing time, the highest SR was achieved after 30 minutes of exercise of $313.3g/m^2/h$.

여름철 냉방실내의 적정착의량에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Optimal Clothing Weight in an Air Conditioned Office in Summer)

  • 김선영;이순원
    • 한국의류학회지
    • /
    • 제9권3호
    • /
    • pp.45-51
    • /
    • 1985
  • The purpose of this study is to research into the thermal condition and the weight of clothes suitable for the officers engagged in light works in an air-conditioned room in summer. The Major findings are as follows: 1. Thermal conditions of the working environment are $24.5^{\circ}C$ (Dry bulb temp.), $68\%$ (Relative humidity) and 2.6m/sec (Air Velocity). 2. Total clothing weights are 416.6 g/$m^2$ (male) and 340.9 g/$m^2$ (female). Underwear weights are 96.8g/$m^2$ (male) and 85.1g/$m^2$ (female). The latter turned out to be statistically significant in Sexual difference. 3. Means of the thermal sensation are 3.0 (comfortable; male) 2.7 ('Slightly cool' -'Comfortable'; female) and the relationship between clothing weights and thermal sensation proves to be significantly correlated in the case of female. 4. $66.7\%$ of the women and $37.1\%$ of the men feel sensation of coldness at the body's specific area and $79.5\%$ of the women and $54.3\%$ of the men reveals air-conditioning disturbance. 5. As the thermal sensation is close to 'cool-cold', sensation of coldness or air conditioning disturbance are showed up more frequently which is reversely related with weight of under-wear. It is also proved that air conditioning disturbances are influenced by sexual difference in addition to sensation of coldness and thermal sensation. 6. According to the result of experiment, we can have the idea that at condition $X_1$, the drop of limbs' skin temp. is remarkable. At condition $X_2$ skin temp. for distal limbs and mean skin temp. are raised and the falling degree is similar. At condition $X_3$, mean skin temp. and distal skin temp. are remarkably raised, and the falling degree decreases and the beats of pulse rate increase and diastoric blood pressure is lowered.

  • PDF

여성 작업치료사의 직무 스트레스와 근무 환경에 관한 연구 (A Study on Job Stress and Working Environment of Female Occupational Therapist)

  • 이재홍;송예원;차태현
    • 한국산학기술학회논문지
    • /
    • 제18권2호
    • /
    • pp.484-492
    • /
    • 2017
  • 여성 작업치료사의 직무와 관련된 문제를 파악하여 근무환경 개선, 직무 스트레스 인식, 성희롱 예방교육 및 여성의 작업치료사의 장기간 경제활동 참여 향상에 필요한 자료를 제공하며, 환자에게 보다 질 높은 서비스 제공에 기여하기 위해 진행되었다. 현재 작업치료사로 근무하고 있는 여성을 대상으로 200부의 설문지를 배포하여 회신된 185부를 분석하였으며 결과는 다음과 같다. 직무스트레스의 주요 항목은 '하는 일에 비해 보수가 적다고 느낄 때가 있다.', '근무로 인해 피로를 느낀다.', '치료 이외의 것까지 신경써야할 때가 있다.' 순으로 나타났다. 근골격계 통증은 손목과 손(90%), 어깨(86%), 목(69.7%), 허리(68.6%)순으로 나타났으며, 손목과 손(63%), 어깨(62.2%), 허리(51.9%) 통증으로 인하여 일상생활에 지장이 있는 상태였다. 언어적 성희롱 경험은 71.4%에 이르고 있었으며, 신체적 시각적 성희롱은 48.6%가 경험하였다고 응답하였다. 가족친화적 조직문화 항목에서는 '개인과 일의 사이에서 곤란하지 않다.'가 61.1%로 가장 많았으며, 직장상사의 긍정적인 지원(54.6%), 직장동료와의 유대관계유지와 감정 공유(73.%)등의 긍정적 응답이 많았다. 여성 작업치료사들이 겪고 있는 직무스트레스, 근골격계 통증, 성희롱 등의 효과적인 대처방법 마련 및 업무 환경 개선이 시급 할 것이라 판단된다. 또한 이를 위해 참고할 수 있는 자료를 제공하는 것에 의의가 있다.

벤진의 유해 위험성과 작업환경 노출기준 연구 (A Study on the Hazardousness and the TLV in Working Environments of Benzine)

  • 김현영;이성배;한정희;신재훈
    • 한국산업보건학회지
    • /
    • 제16권3호
    • /
    • pp.233-244
    • /
    • 2006
  • Of many volatile organic detergents for metals, benzine(CAS No. 8030-30-6), of which the toxicity has not yet been proven, has been used as an alternative of the halide compounds in the consideration of toxic effects, global warming and the destruction of ozone layer. In order to evaluate the effects of the benzine on human body by investigating the subchronic inhalation toxicity, to obtain the basic data for establishing the criteria of exposure in working environments and to classify the hazardousness in compliance with the Industrial Safety and Health Act by evaluating the hazardousness, repeated inhalation exposure test was carried with SD rats. The rats were grouped by 10 females and males each. The repetitive inhalation exposures were carried out at 4 levels of concentration of 0 ppm, 60 ppm, 300 ppm, and 1,500 ppm, for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 13 weeks. The results are described hereunder. 1. No death of the animals of the exposed and controlled groups in the test period. Not any specific clinical symptoms, change in feed intake quantity, abnormality in eye test, or change in activity were observed. 2. In the 300 ppm and 1,500 ppm groups, weight reduction in the female groups and weight increase of liver and kidney in the male groups compared with control group were observed with statistical significance(p<0.05). 3. In the blood test, the HCT increased in the male 300 ppm group and the number of hematocyte increased, MCV and MCH decreased in the male 1,500 ppm group. In the female 1,500 ppm group, the HB decreased and the distribution width of the hematocyte particle size increased. In the blood biochemistry test, the TP in the male 1,500 ppm group and the LDH in the female 1,500 ppm group were increased with statistical significance(p<0.05). 4. Under the test conditions of the present study with SD rats, the NOEL was evaluated to be from 60 ppm to 300 ppm for both male and female groups. By extrapolation, the NOEL for human who work 8 hours a day was evaluated to be from 128 ppm to 640 ppm 5. Since the NOEL evaluated in this study do not exceed 60ppm(0.184 mg/L) the test material does not belong to the classification of the hazardous substance "NOEL${\leq}$0.5mg/L/6hr/90day(rat), for continuous inhalation of 6hours a day for 90 days" nor to the basic hazardous chemical substance class 1(0.2 mg/L/6hr/90day(rat) defined by the GHS which is a criteria of classification and identification of chemical compounds. However, considering the boiling point($30-204^{\circ}C$), flashing point($-40^{\circ}C$), vapor pressure(40 mmHg), and the inflammable range(1.0 - 6.0 %), sufficient care should be taken for handling in the safety aspects including fire or explosion.

Reproduction of Rhodochorton purpureum from Jeju Island, Korea and SanJuan Island, Washington, USA in Laboratory Culture

  • West, Kathryn A.;West, John A.;Lee, Yong-Pil
    • ALGAE
    • /
    • 제21권1호
    • /
    • pp.103-107
    • /
    • 2006
  • Rhodochorton purpureum 4187 from Jeju Island, Korea may have a sexual life history similar to that seen by other investigators working on other strains around the world. In culture short days (8:16, 11:13, 12:12 LD) at 10-15°C induced tetrasporogenesis. Discharged spores were observed with time lapse videomicroscopy. They showed a slight amoeboid movement for 2-3 minutes before rounding up and settling. Tetrasporelings develop into male and female gametophytes. No fertilisation was observed. Tetrasporangia often were borne on carpogonial clusters of females but no discharged spores were seen. Isolate 4241 from San Juan I., Washington, USA grew well in most conditions tested but did not reproduce in short days (8:16, 11:13, 12:12 LD) at 10-15°C.

국내외 뇌사, 존엄사와 안락사에 대한 인식의 변화와 윤리 - 소아를 중심으로 (The change of perspective on brain death, euthanasia and withdrawal of the life supporting medical treatments in Korea for pediatric patients)

  • 권복규
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
    • /
    • 제52권8호
    • /
    • pp.843-850
    • /
    • 2009
  • A recent High Court's decision regarding the withdrawal of life supporting medical treatment (artificial ventilator) from an elderly female patient in the terminal stage has opened up a new era of the "euthanasia dispute" in Korea. With this decision, the legitimate withdrawal of life supporting treatment became possible under certain conditions and the Korean Medical Association is working toward the establishment of practical guidelines for the terminal-stage patients. However, there are still very few debates on the cases of pediatric patients in the terminal stage or suffering from fatal diseases. For pediatric patients, the core principle of autonomy and following procedure of "advance directives" are hardly kept due to the immaturity of the patients themselves. Decisions for their lives usually are in the hands of the parents, which may often bring out tragic disputes around "child abuse", especially in Korea where parents have exclusive control of the destiny of their children. Some developed countries such as the U.S.A., the U.K. and Canada have already established guidelines or a legal framework for ensuring the rights of the healthcare system regarding children suffering from severe illness, permitting the withdrawal of Life supporting medical treatment (LSMT) in very specific conditions when the quality of life of the children is severely threatened. For the protection of the welfare and interest of the children, we should discuss this issue and develop guidelines for the daily practice of pediatricians.