• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.65-79
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• 2017

Objectives : This study aimed to investigate the types of unmet health care needs of the elderly and factors affecting them. Methods : This study used data from the 2012 Community Health Survey. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify the relevance between each type of unmet health care needs and predisposing, enabling, and needs factors, based on the cases without unmet health care needs. Results : Persons with unmet health care needs were 4,460 (9.5%) of the total sample. By types of unmet health care needs, 1,171 (2.5%), 1,026 (2.2%), and 2,263 (4.8%) persons reported inaccessibility, non-accommodativeness, and unaffordability respectively. It was concluded that the there were differences in the associated factors according to the types of unmet medical needs. Conclusions : It is suggested that unmet health care needs in the elderly should be examined from diverse angles rather than from a single aspect of partial limits. In particular, diverse types of unmet health care needs for health care in the elderly according to limited accommodation shoulder be examined. Finally, strategies to decrease unmet health care needs that reflect the associated factors should be developed.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.184-194
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• 2019

Background: The extent of coverage rate of the public health insurance is still insufficient to meet healthcare needs. Private health insurance (PHI) plays a role to supplement coverage level of national health insurance in Korea. It is expected that reduce unmet need healthcare. This study was aimed to identify relationship between PHI type and the unmet healthcare need and its associated factors. Methods: Data were obtained from the 2014 Korea Health Panel Survey using nationally representative sample was analyzed. Respondents were 8,667 who were adults over 20 years covered by PHI but have not changed their contract. According to the enrollment form, PHI was classified into three types: fixed-benefit, indemnity, and mixed-type. To identify factors associated with unmet needs, multiple logistic regression conducted using the Andersen model factors, which are predisposing factors, enabling factors, and need factors. Results: Our analysis found that subjects who had PHI with mixed-type were less likely to experience unmet health care needs compared than those who did not have it (odds ratio, 0.80; 95% confidence interval, 0.66-0.98). As a result of analyzing what affected their unmet healthcare needs, the significant factors associated with unmet medical need were gender, marital status, residence in a metropolitan area, low household income, economic activity participation, self-employed insured, physically disabled, low subjective health status, and health-risk factors such as current smoking and drinking. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that having PHI may reduce experience of unmet healthcare needs. Findings unmet healthcare needs factors according to various subjects may be useful in consideration of setting policies for improving accessibility to healthcare in Korea.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.117-129
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• 2016

Objectives : This study investigated the prevalence of unmet health care needs among Korean adults and related factors. Methods : The study participants were adults over the age of 20 mental health experience from the Korea Health Panel in 2012(n=4,730). Statistical analysis methods used in this study were the ${\chi}^2$-test, Logistic Regression Analysis and other basic statistics such frequency-and percentage using SPSS version 22.0. Results : (1)Significant variables of stress: Factors were age, economic activity, subjective health status, and activity limitation. (2)Significant variables of depression: Factors were age, income class(low) and activity limitation. (3)Significant variables of suicidal impulse: Factors were age, chronic diseases, income class, and activity limitation. Conclusions : Stress, depression, and suicidal impulse can be unmet medical factors; therefore improvement measures and mental health counseling programs in response to suicide impulses, should be developed. Thus there is a need for a health sciences approach.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.418-427
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• 2015

Purpose: Focus group interviews were conducted to explore the current status and barriers of health care services in nursing home from the viewpoint of staffs taking care of nursing home residents. Methods: A qualitative thematic analysis using the focus group interview method was used. A total of 32 health care professionals (19 nurses and 13 social workers) from thirteen nursing homes in South Korea attended (5 focus groups) in 2014. Results: The two main themes were identified: 'minimal health care services that left personal care needs unmet' which has three subthemes of 'stereotyped and fragmented care by types of care providers', 'medically-oriented health care services' and 'health care services mixed with social or recreational programs'; and 'barriers to proper and timely care in nursing homes' with four subthemes including 'unmet care needs due to cognitive dysfunction or lack of expression', 'care guides or tools not suitable for long-term care facilities', 'health care needs that are beyond the facility's care boundary', and 'care delay due to lack of understanding on the older adult's status'. Conclusion: The findings from this study should help health care policy makers to recognize the factors that influence health care services and provide direction for nurses and other staffs involved in supporting health care services for nursing home residents.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.314-324
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the related factors according to gender in baby boomers by using Korea Health Panel Data 2012. Methods: The Korea Health Panel Data 2012 were collected from February to August 2012 by Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and National Health Insurance Corporation and the data of 1,802 respondents categorized as baby boomers were analyzed for this study. The data were analyzed by t-test, ${\chi}^2$ and multiple regression using SPSS/WIN 20.0 program. Results: For male, the influencing factors on HRQOL were economic activity and smoking. For female, the influencing factors on HRQOL were education, psychological and physical stress, unmet basic needs, and psychiatric drugs. The types of insurance, unmet medical needs, anxiety about the future, depression, and self-rated health status showed statistically significant relationships with HRQOL both for male and female. Conclusion: Health care providers are suggested to consider the founded gender differences in this study when they develop interventions for HRQOL improvement for baby boomers in a community.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.249-258
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• 2019

보건의료서비스는 장애인을 포함한 국민의 건강을 위해 제공되는 가장 기초적인 사회제도이다. 그러나 언어장애가 있는 사람 중 언어치료 이용여부에 따른 보건의료서비스의 차이를 알아본 연구는 미흡하였다. 본 연구는 언어장애가 있는 장애인을 대상으로 언어치료 이용여부에 따른 특성과 보건의료서비스의 인식을 비교하고자 하였다. 연구자는 2017년 장애인 실태조사의 원시자료를 이용하여 언어장애를 가진 사람 229명을 선정하였다. 이 중 언어치료를 이용하는 자와 이용하지 않는 자를 구분하여 그들의 특성(사회인구학적 특성, 장애특성)과 보건의료서비스 인식(미충족 의료, 정부 또는 사회에서 강화해야할 보건의료 서비스)을 비교하였다. 229명의 언어장애가 있는 사람 중 언어치료를 이용하고 있는 사람은 37명(16.2%)이었다. 언어치료 이용자는 비이용자와 비교하여 나이가 젊었고, 미취학인 아동이 많았으며, 월평균 총 가구 소득이 높았으며, 장애등록유형에서 지적장애와 자폐성장애가 더 높은 비중을 차지했다. 언어치료 이용자는 비이용자에 비해 미충족 의료 경험의 비율이 낮았다. 미충족 의료 이유에서 언어치료 비이용자 49명의 분포를 살펴보면 '경제적인 이유'와 '의사소통에 어려움'이 13명(6.8%)과 12명(6.3%)로 1순위와 2순위를 차지하였다. 언어치료 비이용자와 이용자 모두는 정부(사회)에서 강화해야 할 보건의료서비스로 '장애관리'를 요구하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 언어장애가 있는 사람의 언어치료 이용의 장벽을 낮추기 위해서 보건의료서비스의 접근성을 증대시킬 필요가 있음을 시사한다.