• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.15-30
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• 2019

Objectives: This study aimed to analyze people's accessibility to medical institutions providing national gastric cancer screening services in Gangwon-do using a geographic information system(GIS). Methods: To assess the spatial accessibility, network analysis was applied. Two types of network analysis-Service area analysis and origin-destination cost matrix(OD-cost matrix)-were applied to create network dataset. Results: The results of the analysis of the service area revealed that it took more than 60 minutes each to reach tertiary hospitals and general hospitals from 74.4% and 9.6% of Gangwon-do areas, respectively. Similarly, it took more than 60 minutes each to reach hospitals and clinics from 4.2% and 3.4% of Gangwon-do areas, respectively. The results of the OD-cost revealed that there were large regional variations in distance and time taken to reach the medical institutions. Conclusions: there were regional variations of spatial accessibility between Si and Gun in Gangwon-do.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.163-172
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• 2019

Objectives: With the rapidly increasing incidence of cancer worldwide, it has become important for health care professionals to both provide care for cancer patients and to address the challenges faced by family caregivers of cancer patients. This study aims to identify the factors affecting depression among cancer patients' family caregivers. The results of this study suggest the need to propose programs for family caregivers as well as cancer patients. Methods: Participants were 219 caregivers who were informed of the study purpose and agreed to participate. Data were analyzed using t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe's test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple stepwise regression with the SPSS/WIN 25.0 program. Results: The mean score for depression among cancer patients' family caregivers was $1.57{\pm}.40$ (range: 0-3). Depression was significantly different based on age, relationship with the patient, education, occupation, cancer recurrence, care days per week, financial burden, site of cancer, and health status. Analysis using multiple regression showed that model 1 showed 16% of the factors predicting depression among cancer patients' family caregivers (F=6.16, p<.001) including occupation, recurrence, and health status of the caregiver. Model 3, which included additional burnout, showed 37% of the factors predicting depression (F=12.36, p<.001). Conclusions: These results suggest that it is necessary to develop programs for prevention and management of depression among cancer patients' family caregivers.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2018

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to analyze factors related to the functional state of stroke patients after discharge from hospital. Methods : The data was provided from a hospital in Wonju, Gangwon-do. The subjects of the analysis were those who were admitted to the emergency room due to stroke from July to December 2016. The dependent variable was the patient's functional status as measured by the modified Rankin Scale(mRS). Independent variables were demographic factors (age, sex, and marriage status), transportation and distance factors (transportation, travel distance), inpatient factors (lengths of stay, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), Tissue plasminogen activator, National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). Hierarchial regression analysis was applied for the analysis. Results : In the hierarchical regression analysis, Model 3, including socio-demographic factors, transportation, distance factors, and inpatient factors, was the best fitted model. It showed that functional status of stroke patients was positively associated with age, length of stay, CCI, NIHSS, and negatively associated with unmarried status. Conclusions : Results indicated that management of stroke requires care from the pre-disease stage, and a customized education program policy is needed for high-risk stroke patients who are older and have comorbid illness.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.115-125
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• 2019

Objectives: Korea has been practicing the separation of dispensary from medical practice since 2000 as a national policy to prevent misuse or overuse of medicines. This study aimed to investigate prescription patterns from except pharmacies in order to determine the appropriateness of drug usage among those patients. Methods: Thirty-two pharmacies in the Yeongdong area of Gangwon Province were examined in this study. The same simulated patient complaining of cold symptoms for 3 days visited each pharmacy to obtain a prescription for medication. Results: At pharmacies prescribing medicine, steroids (53.1%) and antibiotics (50.0%) were used to treat the common cold. Duplicate prescriptions of drugs, such as antihistamines (47.0%) and decongestants (31.3%) were common. The average number of drug prescriptions was 6.59, and 53.2% of pharmacies had prescribed more than seven drugs. The average total cost of the prescriptions was 6,093 won, and the daily cost was 2,544 won. Conclusions: Steroids and antibiotics were frequently abused among patients whose medications had been prescribed by pharmacies. Also, there were a considerable number of drugs and duplicate prescriptions. The prices of the drugs were somewhat high.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.111-122
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• 2020

목적 : 본 연구에서는 간접고용이 직접고용의 고용형태가 위험과 건강에 얼마나 차이를 나타내는가를 알아보고자 하였다. 방법 : 연구는 안전보건공단 산업안전보건 연구원에서 2017년에 실시한 5차 근로환경조사(Korean Working Conditions Survey: KWCS)자료를 바탕으로 조사하였다. 결과 : 보건업에서 위험 요인 노출의 경우 파견, 용역에 비해 직접고용의 위험 노출이 더 높게 나타났다. 반면 건설업에서는 직접고용보다 파견과 용역에서 위험 노출이 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 고용형태에 따른 건강영향의 교차분석을 실시하였다. 교차분석의 결과 직접고용과 외주에 따라 업무가 건강에 위해하지 않음과 위해함의 비율에 대한 차이는 유의하게 나타났고, 직접고용에 비해 외주의 경우 위험도는 2.18배 높게 나타났다. 결론 : 파견과 용역의 고용형태는 직접고용에 비교하여 근로자가 더 위험에 노출되어 있는 것으로 답변하였다. 또한 직접고용에 비해 외주는 근로자의 건강위해에 2배 가까운 위험도를 나타냈다. 이를 해결하기 위해 파견과 용역의 파트너에게 위험하거나 힘든 일을 전가하는 것이 아닌 사업의 전략적 파트너로서 간주할 필요가 있다. 즉 파견, 용역 근로자의 안전보건을 위해 계약에서의 원청업체의 능동적이고 적극적인 협력 및 지원이 필요하다. 이 연구를 통해 위험을 둘러싼 근로 환경과 규범이 재구성되어, 모든 근로자에게 더 안전하고 건강한 직장환경이 조성되기를 기대한다.