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A Study on Community Perceptions of Common Cancers, Determinants of Community Behaviour and Program Implementation in New Delhi, India

  • Seth, Tulika;Kotwal, Atul;Thakur, Rakesh Kumar;Ganguly, K.K.
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.2781-2789
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    • 2012
  • Assessment of perceptions of the community, the determinants and development of their behavior regarding common malignancies, helps in establishing evidence-based activities for prevention and early diagnosis of cancer. However information on this important aspect is lacking in our country. Qualitative methods were here used to obtain information through in depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with all categories of identified stakeholders. Most were unaware of the activities of the cancer control program. Even the providers were not fully conversant. All respondents mentioned lack of diagnostic and treatment facilities in government, primary and secondary level facilities. Perceptions of different categories of stakeholders regarding why many community members did not attend screening camps and other services reflect the determinants of community behavior, acting independently as well as in combination. The cancer control program was thought to be restricted only to some private facilities and overcrowded government tertiary care facilities where the visits were time consuming. Almost all the facilities were considered curative oriented. Issues of supervision, monitoring and feedback were inadequately addressed by providers who were inadequately trained in many program activities. The program lacked effective planning, coordination and appropriate implementation at the grass roots level in Delhi. Social mobilization was grossly inadequate, as most of the community members were unaware of the existence of the program. Misconceptions about the risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment were common amongst community members as well as many of the providers. Thus the national cancer control program in our country needs further community participation and social mobilization. Accessibility, availability, acceptability and affordability of various preventive, curative and rehabilitative activities, as well as intersectoral coordination, training, supervision and monitoring of program activities, all need to be addressed to ensure the success of this important public health program.

Women s View to Pregnancy (여성들의 임신관에 대한 현상학적 연구)

  • 조주연;이미라
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.5-14
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study is to find the Korean women's view to pregnancy within the Korean cultural context, to help nurses understand psychosocioemotional schema of the pregnant women, and to contribute to theory-building on the meaning of pregnancy. The interviewees were 21 women in their twenties or thirties and they were selected by theoretical sampling technique. Thirteen women of the interviewees were single and others married. Data were collected by in-depth interviews from September November in 1994. Interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed. Data were analyzed by Van Kaam's phenomenological method. Results were as follows. Eighty two descriptive expression were found and they were grouped under fourteen common factors. These are 「to maintain family」, 「instinct」, 「obligation」, 「what one should do」, 「to make home」, 「to tie couple firmly」, 「means to overcome a period of lassitude」, 「token of love」, 「hope」, 「to avoid loneliness」, 「wanted to have a baby」, 「to provide for old ages」, 「to be a mother」, 「to achieve her desire through baby」. Finally, fourteen common factors were grouped under four higher categories. Five common factors, 「to maintain family」, 「instinct」, 「obligation」, 「what one should do」, 「to make home」 were grouped under〈custom〉. Three factors, 「to tie couple firmly」, 「means to overcome a period of lassitude」, 「token of love」 were grouped under 〈love between couple〉. Four factors, 「hope」, 「to avoid loneliness」, 「wanted to have a baby」, 「to provide for old ages」 were grouped under 〈pursuiting safety〉. Two factors, 「to be a mother」, 「to achieve her desire through baby」 were grouped under 〈self-fulfillment〉. At present, the most distinguishing motivation of childbearing was rooted in the cultural custom. Korean women thought that it was their duties to have children and children were necessary in life. But they were beginning to recognize that baby could tie couple more firmly and get rid of their loneliness. Korean women no longer considered their children as the one who would take care of them when they were old or who would satisfy their unmet needs. As pregnancy is not women's duty only, authors recommend further studies on men's view to pregnancy.

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A Qualitative Study about the Function and Relationships of Social Community Welfare Centers and Health Family Support Centers for Family Welfare Practice (가족복지실천을 위한 종합사회복지관과 건강가정지원센터의 기능 및 관계에 대한 질적연구)

  • Lim, Hyoyeon;Lee, Sara
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.75-95
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    • 2013
  • This study searched for the common and different aspects of social community welfare centers and health family support centers for family welfare practice of the community. We also tried to find out the awareness of workers and the performance function for each institution. Through the interviews and review of literature, and comparative analysis of operating status, we looked for the common and different aspects, and the direction of development, which evolved family welfare into the community by way of function and relationships of both institutions. As a result, the participants of this study pursued common purposes. They however made aware of the issues of discrimination about social values and each institution's functions. We suggest that the social community welfare center focuses on individuals and families, in order to integrate the community. A health family support center should play the role to fulfill needs for family welfare according to family life cycle, and have good accessibility for individuals and families in the community.

Survey of Recognition of Trauma and Trauma Care System (외상 및 외상진료체계의 인식도 조사)

  • Chung, Il Yong;Kim, Joongsuck;Kim, Yeongcheol;Kim, Seongyup
    • Journal of Trauma and Injury
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.165-169
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: Trauma is one of the most common and lethal causes of death in Korea, especially in people under the age of 40. However, a considerable percentage of trauma patients are lost each year due to the scarce resources of the trauma system. The purpose of this study was to determine the recognition of trauma and trauma system. Methods: From April 8th to 22nd, 2014, visitors and in-patients in our medical center were interviewed and surveyed with a questionnaire, which included 28 questions regarding the trauma system, such as the most common cause of death, the locations of trauma centers, the importance of trauma centers, and consent for supporting trauma centers financially. Results: The majority of the respondents recognized trauma as a common cause of death; this was particularly true for people younger than 40. Most respondents' expectancy for the optimal time for trauma patient transport was high, recognizing that major trauma patients should receive urgent care. The respondents felt that trauma centers are important and needed, just as much as police stations and libraries are. Among 178 respondents, 140 (80.5%) were willing to financially support the trauma system. Conclusion: The respondents were aware of the seriousness of trauma and generally agreed on the need for trauma centers. In order to meet the needs and the demands of the people, and to reduce preventable death rate, the trauma system should be improved not only in quality but also in quantity with better and more facilities and manpower, with the aid of publicity from trauma organizations and funding from the government.

Quorum-based Key Management Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Wuu, Lih-Chyau;Hung, Chi-Hsiang;Chang, Chia-Ming
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.6 no.9
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    • pp.2442-2454
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    • 2012
  • To ensure the security of wireless sensor networks, it is important to have a robust key management scheme. In this paper, we propose a Quorum-based key management scheme. A specific sensor, called as key distribution server (KDS), generates a key matrix and establishes a quorum system from the key matrix. The quorum system is a set system of subsets that the intersection of any two subsets is non-empty. In our scheme, each sensor is assigned a subset of the quorum system as its pre-distributed keys. Whenever any two sensors need a shared key, they exchange their IDs, and then each sensor by itself finds a common key from its assigned subset. A shared key is then generated by the two sensors individually based on the common key. By our scheme, no key is needed to be refreshed as a sensor leaves the network. Upon a sensor joining the network, the KDS broadcasts a message containing the joining sensor ID. After receiving the broadcast message, each sensor updates the key which is in common with the new joining one. Only XOR and hash operations are required to be executed during key update process, and each sensor needs to update one key only. Furthermore, if multiple sensors would like to have a secure group communication, the KDS broadcasts a message containing the partial information of a group key, and then each sensor in the group by itself is able to restore the group key by using the secret sharing technique without cooperating with other sensors in the group.

Awareness and Utilization Plan of the Smart Learning in University Education (대학교육의 스마트러닝에 대한 인식 및 활용 방안)

  • Lim, Jin-Hyung;Ko, Sun-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.5232-5239
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to examine university student's awareness and utilization plan of Smart Learning of the university education. For this purpose, a needs analysis is performed through a survey of 345 university students. Through the survey, first, students of media devices, including the average daily usage time of four hours at the most common smart devices, the intended use was used SNS, games and entertainment, datebook, and more. Second, the benefits of the smart learning, which students learn to recognize the challenges and reducing the burden most common obstacle was the difficulty in immersion classes. Third, the demand for university education smart learning, the most common opinion about the classroom building. On the basis of the above research findings, the utilization plans are proposed.

A Curriculum Strategy for Advanced Practice Nursing; Home Health Care and Hospice (간호대학원의 교육운영전략 : 가정전문간호사와 호스피스전문간호사 중심으로)

  • Lee, Won-Hee;Kim, Cho-Ja;Kang, Kyu-Sook;Oh, Eui-Geum;Kim, Soyaja;Kim, Eun-Jeong
    • Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2004
  • Purpose: This study was to develop a cost-effective and efficient curriculum for advanced practice nurse (APN) programs in home health care and hospice. Method: The process was to: (1) compare and analyze the present curriculum in home health care and hospice programs, (2) identify the needs of 7 expert nurses in home health care and hospice, and (3) develop a common curriculum structure and contents between home health care and hospice specialty courses. Result: Out of the 10 credits constituting the home health care and hospice specialty courses respectively, 6 credits were identified the common courses, Common content areas included introduction to hospice, communication skills, pain control. symptom control. teaching methods, and agency management. Conclusion: These results can be utilized in the development of APN programs for home health care and hospice in terms of qualified and cost-effective aspects of education.

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Elementary School Teachers' Needs Assessments and Perceptions on School Education Program to Prevent Sexual Abuse to Children (아동 대상 성폭력 예방교육에 대한 초등 교사들의 요구 및 인식)

  • Yoon, Ji-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.231-258
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to analyse the needs and recognitions of education to prevent children sexual abuse and to suggest the basic data for school prevent education program. For this purpose 1210 primary school teachers were suggested in Korea and finally 973 questionnaires were analysed. The results are as follows; First, fur the needs of education contents for children,'the reaction skills to crisis situation of sexual abuse' was most needed, and 'the types and cases of sexual abuse' and 'the legal regulations' were lowest. Second, for the recognitions of education forms for children, teachers thought the proper form that professional instructors outside school related sexual abuse in special education type, $1\sim2$ times per semester, to all years of children and parents. Third, the education contents and forms to prevent sexual abuse to children were significantly different by age, gender, carrier years, area for work, related training experience. Fourth, the retraining program chances for teachers and prevent education program for children using the National Common Basic Curriculum needs to be broad.

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A Study on Effective Relations between China's Cancellation of the Export Rebate of VAT tax and Chinese Steel Export to Korea. (중국의 수출 증치세 환급 취소가 중국산 철강재의 대한국 수출에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Seoung Taek
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.83-105
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    • 2017
  • I tried to analyze export relation of influence in Chinese H beam(common steel), Hot Rolled Steel(common steel), Plate(common steel) which could be influenced immediately by China's cancellation of the export rebate of value added tax in 2010 through the statistic methods such as cointegration, Granger causality, impulse response and variance decomposition. In the first period they mutually influenced each other in export to Korea but in the second period, this relation of influence was lessoned. Due to production expansion of Hot Rolled Steel(common steel), Plate(common steel) in Korea, the change of import trend, the market change of steel users' industries and China's expedient export of boron steel to Korea, mutual influence among these products was greatly declined. Ever since Hyundai Steel's production expansion involving blast furnace facilities, there is need for the industry to concentrate on developing new markets for its facilities' output in Korea. Therefore, Korea's steel industry desperately needs strength of de-jure standards such as unique quality standards and related certifications, efficient distribution management, as well as export promotion strategy through its global trading network to effectively address its structural supply-demand imbalances.

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Dynamic Representations of Parabolas in a Microworld (포물선의 동적 표현과 마이크로월드)

  • Kim, Hwa-Kyung
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.49-59
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we discuss two representations of a curve. One is a static representation as set of points, the other is a dynamic representation using time parameter. And we suggest needs of designing a computer microword where we can represent a curve both statically and dynamically. We also emphasize the importance of translation activity from a static representation to a dynamic representation. For this purpose, we first consider constructionism and 'computers and mathematics education' as a theoretical backgrounds. We focus the curve of a parabola in this paper since this is common in mathematics curriculum and is related to realistic situation such as throwing ball. And we survey the mathematics curriculum about parabola representation. And we introduce JavaMAL microworld that is integrated microworld between LOGO and DGS. In this microworld, we represent a parabola using a dynamic action, and connect this dynamic parabola action to recursive patterns. Finally, we remake a parabola for a realistic situation using this dynamic representation. And we discuss the educational meaning of dynamic representation and its computer microworld.

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