• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권17호
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• pp.7235-7239
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• 2014

Cervical cancer, the third commonest cancer in women worldwide, can be prevented through early detection by cervical screening (Pap smear). The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes and practice of cervical cancer screening among female undergraduate university students from 25 low, middle income and emerging economy countries. Using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 9,194 female undergraduate university students aged 18-26 years (mean age 20.9, SD=2.0) from 26 universities in 25 countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas. Overall, 11.6% of the female students indicated that they had conducted one or more times a cervical (Pap) smear test; 8.3% among 18-20 year-olds and 15.6% among 21-26 year-old students. There was considerable country variation on having had a cervical (Pap) smear test among 21-26 year-old female university students, ranging from 59.2% in Colombia and 50.9% in Barbados to 0% in India and 1.0% in Tunesia. Logistic regression showed that cervical cancer screening importance or positive attitude were highly associated with the cervical screening practice. Moreover, risky sexual behaviour and tobacco use, two cervical cancer risk factors, were associated with screening. Cervical cancer screening practices were found to be inadequate and e fforts should be made to develop programmes that can increase the uptake of cervical cancer screening.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권20호
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• pp.8637-8640
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• 2014

The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice of Breast Self-Examination (BSE) among female university students from 24 low, middle income and emerging economy countries. Using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 10,810 female undergraduate university students aged 16-30 (mean age 20.7, SD=2.9) from 25 universities in 24 countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas. Overall, 50.4% of the female students indicated that they knew how to conduct BSE. Among all women, 59.3% had never practiced BSE in the past 12 months, 21.3% 1-2 times, 10.3% 3-10 times, and 9.1% monthly. The proportion of monthly BSE was above 20% in Nigeria and Laos and below 2% in Bangladesh, India, Singapore, Russia, and South Africa. Logistic regression found that BSE importance or positive attitude was highly associated with BSE practice. BSE practices were found to be inadequate and efforts should be made to develop programmes that can increase knowledge related to breast cancer as well as the practice of breast self-examination.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제65권1호
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• pp.35-46
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• 2022

Background: The growing prevalence of overweight and/or obese children is an important public health problem in both developed and developing countries. Although the association of obesity between parents and their children is well known, its underlying mechanisms are not well established. Purpose: This meta-analysis examined parent-child (PC) relationships in obesity and identified factors such as world region and country income level that may influence this relationship. Methods: We identified all related studies published between January 1, 2015 and May 31, 2020 by conducting a literature search using the MeSH terms "obesity," "overweight," "body mass index," "parent," "child," "associate," and "relate" in the PubMed database in English. Results: The meta-analysis of 23 studies that reported an odds ratio (OR) for parent and child obesity associations found a significant association between parents and children who were overweight or obese (pooled OR, 1.97; 95% confidence interval, 1.85-2.10). A meta-regression analysis was used to examine the sources of interstudy heterogeneity. The association between parent and child obesity was higher in Asia than in Europe and the Middle East and higher in high-income countries than in middle-or low-income countries. In addition, a higher association between parent and child obesity was found when both parents were obese than when only the father or mother was obese. This study from multiple countries indicates a significant PC relationship in weight status that varies according to PC pair type, parent and child weight statuses, world region, and country income level. Conclusion: These results demonstrate that the risk of childhood obesity is greatly influenced by parental weight status and indicate that parents could play an important role in preventing child obesity.

• 사회복지연구
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.51-83
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• 2018

본 연구는 IMF 이후 소득 차원에서의 분배 악화와 유사하게 시간사용의 분배에서도 소득계층간 격차가 심화되고 있는 지를 검토하고, 그 영향요인을 분석하였다. 이를 위해 다국가시간사용조사(MTUS)와 생활시간조사 자료를 활용하여 프랑스, 네덜란드, 스페인, 영국, 미국, 한국 등 6개국을 대상으로 다층분석(HLM)을 실시하였다. 주요 분석결과를 제시하면, 첫째, 분석대상 국가들에서 저소득층은 유급노동시간은 길고 여가시간은 짧은 반면, 고소득층은 유급노동시간이 짧고 여가시간은 긴 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 한국의 저소득층은 비교 국가 중 유급노동시간이 가장 길고 여가시간은 가장 짧아, 일-여가 균형이 가장 낮은 수준이었고, 이러한 양상은 IMF 이후 회복되지 않고 있었다. 셋째, 다층분석 결과, 가구소득이 낮을수록 유급노동시간은 증가하고 일-여가 균형은 감소하여 장시간 노동이 특정 집단으로 귀결되는 시간 불평등 양상이 포착되었다. 넷째, 연평균노동시간은 유급노동시간을 증가시키는 반면, 가족정책지출, 재분배 정책, 소득보장정책은 유급노동시간을 감소시키는 요인으로 드러났다. 다섯째, 연평균노동시간은 일-여가 균형을 감소시켰으나, 가족정책지출, 재분배정책, 소득보장정책은 일-여가 균형을 증가시켰다. 본 연구의 의의는 IMF 이후 한국 사회에서 소득 분배뿐 아니라 시간 사용에서의 계층 간 불평등이 심화되어 왔음을 규명하였다는 것이다. 연구결과에 기초하여 본 연구는 시간을 재구조화하는 정책적 개입 전략으로 노동시간 규제 강화, 육아휴직제도 활성화와 소득대체율 실질화, 소득 재분배 관련 정책 확대, 소득보장과 시간보장 정책의 상호보완적 발전 등을 제시하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.116-127
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• 2013

우리나라도 대부분의 국가와 마찬가지로 직접적인 소득보장정책의 일환으로 사회보험방식에 의한 국민연금제도를 시행하고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 제도의 미비 또는 공적연금의 본질적 한계로 인하여, 고령자에게 실질적인 "인간의 존엄성을 유지하기 위한 최저생활의 보장"에는 미흡한 실정이고, 노인의 빈곤율은 OECD 국가들 중 1위이고, 공적연금의 사각지대도 매우 크다. 향후 저출산과 고령화가 더욱 진전될 경우 고령 저소득층의 문제는 심각한 사회문제로 폭발할 우려가 있다. 이 연구에서는 우리나라 노인의 노후소득보장에 관한 실태와 현황 분석과 현행 노인소득보장 법체계를 검토하고, 그 문제점을 도출해 개선방안을 마련하고자 한다.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.21-33
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• 2014

본 연구는 최근에 해외직접투자의 결정요인으로써 간주되고 있는 투자대상국의 지적재산권 보호의 영향에 관하여 실증분석 하였다. 2000부터 2008년까지 미국의 다국적기업들을 대상으로 고정효과 모형(FEM)과 시스템 GMM을 사용하여 분석한 결과, 지적재산권 보호의 변화는 미국 다국적기업으로부터의 해외직접투자를 유입에 있어서 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 반면에, 지적재산권 보호의 정도는 유의적인 영향을 제공하지 않았다. 소득수준을 기준으로 고소득국가와 저소득국가로 나누어 실시한 추가 분석결과에서 역시 지적재산권 보호의 변화만이 저소득국가에서의 미국 다국적기업의 투자에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 패널자료의 특성상 오차항의 이분산성(heteroscedasticity)을 고려하여 전체 투자대상국을 상대로 FGLS와 PCSE 분석을 실시한 결과에서도 지적재산권 보호의 변화만이 해외직접투자의 유입에 긍정적인 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있으며, 동일한 방법으로 고소득국가와 저소득국가로 나누어 추가분석을 실시한 결과에서는, 저소득국가에서만 미국 다국적기업의 해외직접투자 유입에 유의적으로 긍정적인 영향을 제공하고 있음을 보여주었다. 이러한 결과는 투자대상국의 지적재산권 보호의 수준보다는 변화가 해외직접투자의 유입에 영향을 제공하는 것으로써, 특히 저소득국가가 미국 다국적 기업의 해외직접투자를 유입하기 위하여 지적재산권 보호의 변화에 대한 중요성을 시사한다.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.157-164
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• 1996

The public sector extension services in which governments of less developed countries (LDCs) have invested large sums often at the behest of donors are achieving uneven impact, often at unsustainable high costs. Further, the fundamental premise of public sector extension - that low-income farmers are unlikely to obtain technical information unless it is provided by government - increasingly requires re-examination. This paper reviews the pressures facing conventional agricultural extension, examines the prospects of recent approaches that are participatory, institutionally pluralistic and geared towards cost-sharing, and suggests ways forward for governments.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.88-109
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• 2019

Purpose - This paper examines the effects of host country's non-economic factors on foreign affiliate's financial and operational performance. Design/Methodology - Using Korean-owned foreign affiliate-level data, we employ various measures that represent host country's non-economic factors and examine their effects on foreign affiliate's performance. We further investigate the effects of local top managers and local middle managers on the impact of country's non-economic factors on foreign affiliate's performance. Findings - We find that local top managers are effective in increasing foreign affiliate's financial performance by dealing with institutional and cultural factors, particularly in high-income countries, while local middle managers are effective in increasing affiliate's operational performance by responding to the changes in doing business factors, particularly in low-income countries. Originality/value - Considering that most of previous FDI studies focus on examining host country's economic factors on firm's FDI decision, our findings suggest that country's non-economic factors are strongly associated with actual business performance of foreign affiliates.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.770-780
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting the unmet healthcare needs of married immigrant women. Methods: This study was a secondary data analysis using data from the 2009 National Survey of Multicultural Families. Data collected from 58,735 married immigrant women who had spouses were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, and logistic regression. Results: Overall, 9.9% of married immigrant women have unmet healthcare needs. The significant predictors related to unmet healthcare needs were young age, high level of education, employed, country of origin, long period of residence, low income, uninsured, urban area, low level of subjective health status, and illness experience over past two weeks. In particular, four variables (long period of residence, low income, subjective health status, and illness experience over past two weeks) significantly predicted unmet healthcare needs for women from all countries of origin. Conclusion: The results of the study indicate that common predictors related to unmet healthcare needs of married immigrant women are a long period of residence, low income, subjective health status, and illness experience over past two weeks. Therefore intervention strategies to decrease unmet healthcare needs should focus on these significant predictors.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.59-61
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• 2018