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Injury prevention for children (아동 사고 예방)

  • Son, Ina
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.99-107
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    • 2001
  • Injury has now replaced disease as the biggest single cause of death in children after their first birthday. Each month one child dies from preventable, unintentional injury and the medical cost of these injury is increasing remarkably. It is necessary to develop injury prevention system to manage, evaluate and analysis the information about accident. This resource manual developed as a result of literature review of child care safety project which is based on the Kidsafe Tasmanian Division in Australia and the other resources. The purposes of this study is to; 1. Develop model to enable services to focus on injury prevention 2. Develop standardized child care injury report form 3. Develop home safety checklist 4. Development of injury prevention policies The suggestions to develop injury prevention policies : 1. detail analysis of injury occurrence 2. investigation of known intervention and their effectiveness 3. analysis of policy environment 4. development of policy on implementation of intervention 5. develop protocol and materials to develop an injury prevention focus 6. increase knowledge and awareness among staff and parents of where injuries were occurring and develop.

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System Dynamics Modeling for Policy Analysis of Occupational Injuries

  • Lee, Kyung-Soo;Nam, Seok-Woo;Chung, Hee-Tae
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Health Science
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.126-132
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    • 2014
  • Purpose. Because traditional statistics approach had limitations in learning future forecasting and major factors causing occupational injuries in each industry, this paper develops a model forecasting and evaluating occupational injury rate by using a system dynamics model through the analysis of the industry injury statistics and the project for industry injury prevention. Method. The model of this paper consists of 12 total models such as a model of employees, of industrial disaster victims, of injury rate, etc.; In the analysis of firm size, it is classified and developed according to 12 groups on the basis of the number of employees, and in the analysis of industrial classification, it is done according to 10 total business fields such as manufacturing business, construction one, etc. Results. This paper suggests the methodology which forecasts industry injury rate by business field and size on the basis of developed model, and evaluates an industry injury prevention project from various angles. Conclusions. This paper deduced problem through the analysis of an industry injury by business fields and a comparative analysis of foreign cases, and analyzed to affect industry injury prevention by industry. And it also analyzed actual condition of industry injury, and did a difference in the level of safety consciousness according to the general characteristics of workers and occupational safety and health education related characteristics. In result, this paper suggests that analyzing occupational injury related factors, a safety budgetary allocation, and industry injury related factors can reduce illness costs such as employees' injury and medical care, and also assist cost for a disability.

School Safety Education Factors Predicting Injury Prevalence Among Korean Adolescence (학교의 안전교육 관련 특성이 청소년의 사고발생 예측에 미치는 영향)

  • 이명선;박경옥
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.147-165
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    • 2004
  • Injury is a leading cause of death in the children and adolescent populations. In particular, more than 80% of unintentional injury was related to risk-taking behaviors involved in diverse accidents around school and home. Therefore, educational approaches should be provided for children and adolescent populations, and schools are the essential and appropriate sites to conduct safety education. This study was conducted to identify injury prevalence and safety education at schools among middle and high school students in Korea. About 1,034 middle and high students in 28 schools participated in a self-administered survey. The target schools were selected from the stratified random sampling method throughout schools of seven metropolitan cities in Korea. The questionnaires were delivered to the vice-principals by ground mailing service and the vice-principals administered survey data collection. The questionnaire asked about safety education provided in schools, injury experience in the last year, needs for injury prevention class in school, and demographics. All survey responses were entered into SPSS worksheet. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and descriptive discriminant analysis (DDA) were used in statistical analysis with SPSS software 11.1. Multivariate analysis of variance was conducted as a preliminary analysis of DDA. According to the result of multivariate analysis of variance, gender (man), grade (poor), living with both parents, and displaying injury prevention messages on school news board were significantly different between the injured student group and the uninjured student group (p= .00). These four factors also had significant effects on students' injury experience in DDA, although correlation of the four factors with injury experience was weak overall based on their canonical function coefficients. All structure coefficients of the four factors were greater than .30, which means the four factors have discriminant effects on injury prevalence. The sizes of the discriminant effects, in order, were largly from gender, grade, living with both parents, and safety message display on school news boards.

Statistcal Analysis of Sports Injury (스포츠 손상의 통계적 분석)

  • Hong, Seong-Ryul
    • 물리치료
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    • s.34
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    • pp.2-8
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    • 1985
  • STATISTCAL ANALYSIS OF SPORTS INJURY Seong-Ryul Hong R.P.T. Seoul School Health Center Hospital Upon comings of 1986 Asian Games and 1988 Olympiad in Seoul , Korean people have more enthusiasm for sports than any other time .It's very desirable that student athletes are doing thier best to train skills and to improve records for the coming 2 international sports events .I concluded as followings from the statistical analysis of 159 student athletes about sports injury who had been received Physiotherapy in School Health Center Hospital in Seoul from Jan.8 1982 to Dec,4 1984Track & field is the most common team among school sports team in Seoul.47 Students(30%) were injuried during football game, Career of sports injury: 88 students(55.3 %) were injured for the first time .Location of injury: More than 30% in both sexs were injuried in the Lumbar Frequency in injury in lower limb is higher than that of upper . Frequency of injury in upper right limb and lower left limb are higher than of counterparts6. Diagnosis: 32% of students were diagnosed as lumbago. Treatment period: 42.7% of students were healed within a week and 76.8% within 2 weeks

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Bone Microarchitecture at the Femoral Attachment of the Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) by Texture Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Patients with PCL Injury: an Indirect Reflection of Ligament Integrity

  • Kim, Hwan;Shin, YiRang;Kim, Sung-Hwan;Lee, Young Han
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: (1) To evaluate the trabecular pattern at the femoral attachment of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in patients with a PCL injury; (2) to analyze bone microarchitecture by applying gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM)-based texture analysis; and (3) to determine if there is a significant relationship between bone microarchitecture and posterior instability. Materials and Methods: The study included 96 patients with PCL tears. Trabecular patterns were evaluated on T2-weighted MRI qualitatively, and were evaluated by GLCM texture analysis quantitatively. The grades of posterior drawer test (PDT) and the degrees of posterior displacement on stress radiographs were recorded. The 96 patients were classified into two groups: acute and chronic injury. And 27 patients with no PCL injury were enrolled for control. Pearson's correlation coefficient and one-way ANOVA with Bonferroni test were conducted for statistical analyses. This protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board. Results: A thick and anisotropic trabecular bone pattern was apparent in normal or acute injury (n = 57/61;93.4%), but was not prominent in chronic injury and posterior instability (n = 31/35;88.6%). Grades of PDT and degrees of posterior displacement on stress radiograph were not correlated with texture parameters. However, the texture analysis parameters of chronic injury were significantly different from those of acute injury and control groups (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The trabecular pattern and texture analysis parameters are useful in predicting posterior instability in patients with PCL injury. Evaluation of the bone microarchitecture resulting from altered biomechanics could advance the understanding of PCL function and improve the detection of PCL injury.

Epidemiology and Control of Agriculture Related Injury

  • Koh, Sang-Baek;Lee, Kyung-Suk
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.517-523
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    • 2011
  • Objective: The purpose were understanding the epidemiological characteristics of work related injuries of the farmer and establishing injury prevention and control activity. Background: Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industry and job in Korea. Method: We reviewed previous reports regarding the agricultural injury, injury prevention and control. Results: In the agricultural total injury, there were 45,342 hospitalized injury to farmers, injury rate was 35.8/1,000 farmers/years. Of these injuries, 52.6 percent were classed as work related injury. The farm-related injury rate was 17.5/1,000 farmers/years by analysis of Safety Aid System of Farm Workers. There were 2.4 times as incidence rate for farmers compared to non-farmers. Conclusion: Several strategies are available for injury prevention and control. They are as follows; social concern, survey of farm related injury, injury prevention, injury surveillance system and injury compensation.

A Model Development of Injury Prevention for Application in the Semiconductor Industry (반도체 산업에서의 재해 예방 모델 개발)

  • Yoon, Yong-Gu;Hong, Sung-Man;Park, Peom
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2002
  • It has been Management for stabilize Enterprise-Management for Economic demand for to Productivity, Automation, customer satisfaction, Especially Semiconductor-Industry has been, potential-risk in working to factory to machine equipment, all kinds of utility, gas, chemical, electronic, Fire. This study of basic-purpose has Research Different From as Follow to analysis and Solution For semiconductor product Factory of a actual point Data and specific-gravity to Relation for company-Injury. 1. It has been try to Injury-Tendency and cause-Analysis for our County-Manufacture-Occupation. 2, Semiconductor Injury of Actual-condition in Enforcement for problem and Analysis that Injury Problem has occupated it Submitted to Solution for ordinary Injury theory View to point Solve at for New Model has applicated to that nilem for processed to Solution.

Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury Using a Finite Element Model

  • Suh Chang-Min;Kim Sung-Ho;Oh Sang-Yeob
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.1424-1431
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    • 2005
  • In this study, head injury by impact force was evaluated by numerical analysis with 3-dimensional finite element (FE) model. Brain deformation by frontal head impact was analyzed to evaluate traumatic brain injury (TBI). The variations of head acceleration and intra-cranial pressure (ICP) during the impact were analyzed. Relative displacement between the skull and the brain due to head impact was investigated from this simulation. In addition, pathological severity was evaluated according to head injury criterion (HIC) from simulation with FE model. The analytic result of brain damage was accorded with that of the cadaver test performed by Nahum et al.(1977) and many medical reports. The main emphasis of this study is that our FE model was valid to simulate the traumatic brain injury by head impact and the variation of the HIC value was evaluated according to various impact conditions using the FE model.

Empirical Study on Injury Management System of Fire-Fighting Officer (소방공무원의 공상관리제도에 대한 실증연구)

  • Kwon, Seol A;Oh, Myeong Keun;Lee, Ju Ho;Lee, Min-Kyu;Park, Sang Ho;Hyeon, Seung Hyo;Ryu, Sang Il
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.114-125
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    • 2019
  • The frequency of official injury of fire-fighting officers exposed to an extreme situation in disaster areas has been continuously increased. In spite of increase of injury, procedures of injury approval are complex, so the working environment of fire-fighting officers is very poor in terms of safety management. This study was, therefore, conducted to provide basic data for improvement of the injury management system for fire-fighting officers, by empirically analyzing the system for those in Busan city. The findings of the empirical analysis are as follows: first, the frequency of injury experienced by them is higher than that of other occupations; second, application for injury is not actively made; third, fire-fighting officers should bear the expense if injury is approved. On the basis of such an analysis on actual conditions, an analysis on policy factors for improving the injury management system shows; first, various high-risk matters should be considered in the review of application for injury, for improvement factors of the application for injury, while it is necessary to extend the benefit and support project for injured officers, for operation improvement factors of the injury management system, and the compensation act should be improved, for the improvement factors of the injury system. Second, it is urgent to develop damage prevention and coping education program for improving the injury management system. In addition, the simplification of administrative procedures of application for injury and the extension of benefit and support project for injured officers should be realized as soon as possible, moreover, the enhancement of directors' interest and support is also required.

Analysis of Human Body Injury by Non-penetrating Ballistic Impact Using a Finite Element Model of the Head and Neck (근육 모델이 고려된 두부 및 경추 유한요소모델을 이용한 비관통 피탄 충격에 의한 인체 상해 해석)

  • Kang, Moon Jeong;Jo, Young Nam;Chae, Jeawook;Yoo, Hong Hee
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2017
  • Ballistic impact on a soldier wearing a helmet can induce fatal injury, even if the helmet is not penetrated. Although studies on this type of injury have been performed, most of them have used an analytical model focused on head injury only. The injury of the neck muscles and cervical vertebrae by non-penetrating ballistic impact affects the survivability of soldiers, despite not inflicting fatal injury to the human body. Therefore, an analytical model of the head and neck muscles are necessary. In this study, an analysis of human body injury using the previously developed head model, as well as a cervical model with muscles, was performed. For the quantitative prediction of injury, the stress, strain, and HIC were compared. The results from the model including the cervical system indicated a lower extent of injury than the results from the model excluding them. The results of head injury were compared with other references for reliability.