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A Study of Health Promotion Activity in Community Health Nursine Areas (지역사회 간호분야에서의 건강증진행위분석)

  • Kim, Young-Im
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.158-169
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    • 1993
  • Health promotions have been identified as foundamental concepts for nursing practice, especially in community health nursing. Nurses have been regarded as having important role's in health promotion activities. According to a review of literature, the concepts of health promotion consist of prevention services, health protection. Health prevention services have three levels : Primary secondary and tertiary. The objectives of this study are (1) to analyze the health promotion activities in school nursing. (2) to analyze health promotion activities in community health nursing posts. (3) to analyze the health promotion activities in industrial nursing while suggesting future direction for health promotion in community health nursing areas. The major results are first, Prevention services are most actively performed rather than health protection, and health education in three areas: School, industries, and community. Health nursing, secondary prevention services follow emergency care, and ordinary diseases control are especially active. Health promotion can ultimately from changing life be accomplished styles, and health behavior. As a consequence, future directions promoting health in community health nursing are desirable areas. Focusing on health protection, and health education that is not activated presently.

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A Study on the Prediction of City Gas Accident Damage by Consequence Analysis (Consequence Analysis를 통한 도시가스 사고 피해 예측에 관한 연구)

  • An, Jung-sik;Kim, Jihye;Yu, Jihoon;Kim, Jongkyoung;Kang, Subi;Cho, Donghyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.36-40
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    • 2022
  • Recently, the biggest topic in the industry is the area of industrial safety and health management. Since city gas is flammable gas and has a high risk of fire and explosion, much effort is required to prevent serious industrial and citizenry disasters. As part of city gas safety management, this study attempted to quantitatively predict the scope and degree of damage in the event of an explosion accident caused by city gas leakage through the Consequence Analysis. As a result, there was a difference in the accident result value according to various leakage conditions such as pressure and weather conditions. Through this study, a scenario of explosion due to city gas leakage will be prepared when performing city gas safety management work and used to prepare more effective accident prevention and emergency action plans.

Structural Equation Modeling of Self-Management of Liver Transplant Recipients (간이식 수혜자의 자기관리 구조모형)

  • Jeon, Mi-Kyeong;Park, Yeon-Hwan
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.47 no.5
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    • pp.663-675
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to construct and test a structural equation model of self-management of liver transplant recipients based on self-determination theory. Methods: Participants were 275 outpatients who received liver transplantation. A structured self-report questionnaire was used to assess health care providers' autonomy support, transplant-related characteristics, illness consequence perception, autonomy, competence, family relatedness, depression and self-management. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS/WIN 24.0 and AMOS 24.0 program. Results: The modified model showed a good fitness with the data: GFI=.96, RMSEA=.06, CFI=.96, NFI=.93, TLI=.93, PGFI=.43, PNFI=.49. The health care providers' autonomy support, competence, family relatedness and depression were factors with a direct influence on the self-management of liver transplant recipients. The health care providers' autonomy support and illness consequence perception had an indirect influence through competence, family relatedness and depression. However, the transplant-related characteristics and autonomy did not have a significant effect on self-management. This model explained 59.4% of the variance in self-management. Conclusion: The result suggests that continuous education must be done to promote the competence of liver transplant recipients and to encourage the patient to positively perceive their current health condition with a view that enhances one's self-management. Additionally, the liver transplant recipients should be screened for depression, which would affect self-management. Most of all, health care providers, who have the most influence on self-management, should improve therapeutic communication and try to form a therapeutic relationship with the liver transplant recipients.

Standardization of a Graft Inoculation Method for the Screening of Mungbean Germplasm against Mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV)

  • Akhtar, Khalid Pervaiz;Ahsanul Haq, M.
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.257-259
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    • 2003
  • This report described a simple, inexpensive, faster, and effective graft inoculation method for the artificial transmission of Mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV). Success of grafting and disease transmission was 100% in this method. Screening of mungbean germplasm using this method will prevent the chance of escape infection, probably as a consequence of non-preference mechanism and loss of vector infectivity. The grafting method described here is applicable to both screenhouse and field trials.

Offsite Consequence Analysis for Accidental Release Scenarios of Toxic Substances in the Yochon Area (여천지역 누출사고 시나리오에 따른 인근 지역 피해 분석)

  • 김영성
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.151-158
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    • 1999
  • Offsite consequences resulting form worst-case scenarios involving release of toxic substances in the Yochon area were estimated using the ALOHA(Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres) model. Eight toxic substances, including NH3, were considered; five were toxic gases and three were toxic liquids at ambient temperature. For toxic gases, the entire quantity was assumed to be released at a constant rate during a 10-minute period. For toxic liquids, the entire quantity stored in the tank was assumed to be spilled and spread and spread instantaneously to form a pool with a depth of 1cm, and then evaporated over some period of time. Except for phosgene and toluene 2,4-diisocyanate, for which concentration levels corresponding to human health effects are very low, average distances of the area at risk of adverse health effects for a 1- tom release were predicted to be $2.3{\pm}1.1 km$ for the worst-case meteorological conditions and $0.93{\pm}0.69km$ under typical meteorological conditions of the Yochon are. Because a large number of people were predicted to be affected in the current analysis, refined analyses considering both realistic accident scenarios and topographic effects were warranted.

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Consistency issues in quantitative safety goals of nuclear power plants in Korea

  • Kim, Ji Suk;Kim, Man Cheol
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.7
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    • pp.1758-1764
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    • 2019
  • As the safety level of nuclear power plants (NPPs) relates to the safety of individuals, society, and the environment, it is important to establish NPP safety goals. In Korea, two quantitative health objectives and one large release frequency (LRF) criterion were formally set as quantitative safety goals for NPPs by the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission in 2016. The risks of prompt and cancer fatalities from NPPs should be less than 0.1% of the overall risk, and the frequency of nuclear accidents releasing more than 100 TBq of Cs-137 should not exceed 1E-06 per reactor year. This paper reviews the hierarchical structure of safety goals in Korea, its relationship with those of other countries, and the relationships among safety goals and subsidiary criteria like core damage frequency and large early release frequency. By analyzing the effect of the release of 100 TBq of Cs-137 via consequence analysis codes in eight different accident scenarios, it was shown that meeting the LRF criterion results in negligible prompt fatalities in the surrounding area. Hence, the LRF criterion dominates the safety goals for Korean NPPs. Safety goals must be consistent with national policy, international standards, and the goals of other counties.

The Influence of Source Term Release Parameters on Health Effects

  • Jeong, Jongtae;Ha, Jaejoo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.294-302
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    • 1999
  • The influence of source term release parameters on offsite health effects was examined for the YGN 3&4 nuclear power plants. The release parameters considered in this study are release height, heat content, and release time. The effects of core inventory change as a function of fuel burnup was also examined. The health effects by the change of release parameters are early fatalities, cancer fatalities, and early fatality distance. The results showed that early fatalities and early fatality distance decrease as release height increases, although it does not have significant influence on cancer fatalities. The values of both early and late health effects decrease as heat content increases. As release time increases, health consequence shows maximum value in 2 hours of release time and then decreases rapidly. As fuel burnup increases, early fatalities decrease rapidly, while cancer fatalities increase rapidly. Both cases show little variation afterward. Early fatality distance is almost same in all fuel turnup history. The information obtained through this research is very useful in developing strategies for reducing offsite consequences when combined with the influence of weather conditions on offsite risks.

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Optimal Distribution of Public Health Administration between Local and Central Government (중앙-지방 정부간 보건행정기능 및 재원의 효율적 배분방안)

  • 양봉민;김진현
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.33-56
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    • 1992
  • The objectives of this research are (i) to review the functional and financial distribution of public health adminstration between central and local governments, (ii) to find out, based on economic criteria, optimal distribution required to fullfil local need for public health, and finally, (iii) to suggest policy implications in health area in face of the newly arising local autonomy system in Korea. Judging from data on government expenditures and tax revenues, public health administration in Korea is highly concentrated into central government, both functionlally and financially. High dependency of public health on central government has often been critisized that local residents can not participate in the decision making process for local health problems. This study, however, shows that localization of public health administration does not necessarily result in efficient and equitable allocation of resource to satisfy local demand for public health. From this point of view, two eccnomic criteria are suggested, i.e. external effect and economies of scle, as distributive criteria of roles in public health administration between local and central government. In addition, superiority of central concentration of public health administration to localization is emphasized in that public health in a wide sense contains the nature of public good and is part of compulsory socil security system. As a consequence, planned intervention by government is desirable.

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User-friendly Application for operability with HL7 in mobile agent of Ubiquitous Health Environment

  • Lee, JeongHoon;Kwock, DongYeup;Moon, KangNam;sahama, Tony;Kim, Jung-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.866-870
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    • 2009
  • Mobile Health (M-Health) system is a recent term for medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices. Mobile Health system has been successfully establishing at few general hospital in Korea. However, to use diverse devices manufactured by various company cause inoperability, and lack of security disappoints customers often. Although the outstanding health environment, most of hospitals are unavailable to share electronic patient records due to lack of standard protocol to handle the interoperability each other. Health Level 7 (HL7) is the best solution for the problem. In this paper, we will analyse a current M-Health service in terms of security and mobile device, and suggest iPhone for the best device against hospital environment. Also, for keep confidentiality of health information and patient privacy, enhanced security mechanism is introduced. As a consequence, interoperable standard, and most appropriate device for supporting staffs and M-Health performance, and enhanced securirty mechanism will be integrated in order to propose improved M-health model.

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Metabolic syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease (대사증후군과 심혈관질환)

  • No, Yeong-Mu
    • Journal of Korea Association of Health Promotion
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2004
  • The Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of lipid and non-lipid factors of metabolic origin. The presence of any 3 of the following factors is considered sufficient for diagnosis : hypertension(BP <130/85mmHg), low HDL-cholesterol (<40mg% in men, <50mg% in woman), high triglyceride(>150mg%) and abdominal obesity(abdominal girth >102cm in men, 88cm in woman). The major adverse consequence of the metabolic syndrome is cardiovascular disease. Several studies have shown an association between metabolic syndrome and increased cardiovascular events. In Korea, the prevalence of the factor of metabolic syndrome has been increasing since 20 years previously when the Korean economy began to grow rapidly, with a resultant change in lifestyle, toward that of western countries. Thus, the management of the metabolic syndrome is an important social and medical issue in terms of the national health problem. This review will consider each factor in turn, providing insight for health care providers in an effort to prevention of cardiovascular events and maintenance of quality of life in persons with metabolic syndrome was discussed.

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