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Reform of Medicolegal Death Investigation System in Korea - On the Professionalism of involved Personnel - (검시제도(檢視制度)의 개혁(改革) 방안(方案) - 검시 관여자(檢視 關與者)의 전문성(專門性)을 중심으로 -)

  • Seo, Young-Il;Chae, Jong-Min;Park, Hee-Kyung
    • Journal of forensic and investigative science
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.44-56
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    • 2006
  • The reform necessity of medicolegal death investigation system is continuously issued. The problems from the current death investigation system are discussed, specially on the professionalism of the involved personnel such as policemen, doctors, prosecutors. Death investigation exists not only to prosecute the criminals but also primarily to protect the general public's health, safety, and welfare. The reform proposals of death investigation system are followed as below. Statutes require that the prosecutor be notified of certain deaths. All deaths that may reasonably result from anything other than natural disease should be investigated. A death certificate is a legal document which authenticate a death, therefore it is issued by the doctor. The postmortem examination must be rearranged on the university base and performed by the qualified doctors who are trained at least in pathology. The police officer specified in death investigation and forensic identification should be encouraged to keep doing their special work in many ways.

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Medical Insurance and Health Education (의료보험과 보건교육)

  • 이규식;홍상진
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 1993
  • Recently the structure of disease is changing its form into chronic disease. Taking into consideration this, the health care system doesn't cope with this tendency. With the health care system for acute disease, it is difficult to decrease medical care cost. At this point, Health education like primary health care can reduce risk factors and possibilities of occurrence of disease. This can cut off the medical insurance finance further more cuts off the rates of insurance cost. This is why health education is the principle part of medical insurance service. Though the law shows health education must be executed in the field of Medical insurance, still it is not enough. In order to carry out health education in the medical insurance organization, the efforts we should make are as follows: 1. Recognize the importance of health education. 2. Set the clear goals in health education. 3. Organize health education system. 4. Train health workers. 5. Systematize health education service. 6. Reform the medical insurance system. 7. Evaluate the effect of health education and practice the model.

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Lessons from Chile: The Impact of Privatization of Health Insurance on Women's Health (의료보험 민영화가 여성의 건강에 미치는 영향 : 칠레의 사례를 중심으로)

  • Park, Yun-Joo
    • Iberoamérica
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.69-94
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    • 2011
  • Chile has been the first country in Latin America which has built a two-tiered health care system by partially privatizing the health insurance sector. Despite the intial decrease of health expenditure, more researches now show that health inequality within the Chilean health sector has been augmented with privatization of its insurance system. To explore such inequality, this article looks into the impact of privatization of health insurance on women's health. The author argues that privatization has intensified medicalization of women's body and, consequently, it worsened women's health in Chile. This article contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of market-oriented health care reform by linking it with medicalization process.

A New Model Improving the Current Curriculum of Radiologic Technology Department in Junior College (전문대학(專門大學) 방사선과(放射線科) 교육과정(敎育課程)의 수정개발(修正開發) 연구(硏究))

  • Lee, Man-Koo;Choi, Jong-Hak
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.43-62
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    • 1988
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the problems of the Current Curriculum of Radiologic Technology Department in Junior College, try to find a future solution of the education of Radiologic Technology and a reform measure, and suggest a new substantial model. So this study refered to sundary records, posed a question by papers, made a reform measure of curriculum on the basis of the results, examined it throughly by discussion with the related professors and the industrials figures, and decided a new model. The characteristics of the reform measure reflected in the new model are as follows; 1. It increased the numbers of credits like 94 or 95 ones, to positively accept a developing medical technique and modern science. 2. It set up various general studies and offered a free selection. 3. It closely related majors and their credits to the national examination of lisence and the task of industrial job site. 4. It kept the balance between the periods of lecture, practice, training and their credits. 5, It reinforced the subjects of fundamental medical science such as Introduction to Medicine, Pathology, Biochemistry, Patient Care, etc. 6. It newly established Clinical Trainings as a regular education course. 7. It newly established Introduction to Computer Science, Ultrasonography and Magenetic Resonance Imaging, to cope with the development of the future medical technique. 8. It newly established Humanism in Medicine as a regular education course. 9. It changed the names of subjects resonably.

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Issues of the German Social Insurance Reform Proposals and Their Implications (독일 사회보험 개혁론의 쟁점과 함의)

  • Hwang, Gyu Seong
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.31-60
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    • 2017
  • This paper aims to reveal the background and issues of the current reform proposals for social insurance in Germany and to draw their implications for Korea. The essence of the German social insurance crisis is that of normality of industrial society on which it has been based, revealing itself by the dual crisis of finance and dualization. Reform proposals are regarded as diverse responses to the crisis of the normality within individual social insurance schemes. They are searching for transforming health insurance into citizen's insurance, pension insurance into various alternatives including all worker's insurance and citizen's pension, unemployment insurance into employment insurance. One of the commonalities of the them is that they attempt to reconstruct the old normality. However, due to the economic recovery, the historical experiences of improving social insurance, and high satisfaction, they are expected to struggle with the gradual improvements rather than radical shift from their tradition. In Korea, where the maturity of social insurance is low, it is necessary to mark the crisis faced by German social insurance as a teacher. We need to go back to the fundamental spirit of social policy and redraw the blue prints of social policy by opening minds to plentiful alternatives in the eyes of normality reconstruction.

Regulatory System of Quasi-drugs in Korea (우리나라 의약외품 허가심사제도 고찰 및 개선 방안)

  • Sohn, Hyun-Soon;Shin, Hyun-Taek;Song, In-Sook;Jun, Hyo-Jung
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2006
  • The study was aimed to recommend the ways for improving regulatory system of quasi-drugs in governmental authority by comparing with other countries. According to the regulations, the scope of quasi-drugs includes 3 categories of 1) the health aids made of textile, rubber and paper, 2) the health aids which have very minimal effects or no any effects on humans, and 3) disinfectants and pesticides. In US, these quasi-drugs in Korea are classified into 5 categories of medical device, cosmetics, OTC drugs, dietary supplements and pesticides. To improve quasi-drugs administration in Korea, it is concluded that several measures should be implemented : 1) establish clear criteria for classifying into quasi-drugs and more detailed guidelines on designation of quasi-drugs, 2) reform current regulations to meet 3-categories characteristics, supplement detailed guidelines on quasi-drugs administration for effective application process, and update relevant regulations for efficacy, safety and quality, 3) update quasi-drug monographs, 4) re-evaluate current classification of individual quasi-drugs, 5) develop comprehensive list by ingredients, 6) reform post-marketing management system for safety and quality, 7) strengthen the review agency function by increasing the number of experts, 8) develop the database for quasi-drugs for effective information management.

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Experiences of Students of Nursing College in Transition From a Three-year to a Four-year Nursing Education System (학제개편 간호대학생들의 4학년 진학경험)

  • Kim, HackSun;Cha, JinGyung
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.465-473
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of nursing college students who are now pursuing a bachelor degree of nursing at a three year nursing school. Method: The study employs a Qualitative research method. For this study 19 nursing students of a reformed nursing college were interviewed. All of them are now taking the fourth-year classes. Results: The experiences of the interviewees are categorized into the following five themes: 1) Education reform news that could make the bachelor degree happen; 2) Relaxed but uncomfortably long winter break; 3) Looking forward to the fourth year of nursing education; 4) Facing the fourth year and possible double classes; and 5) Unregrettable choice. The study found that the students are putting their best effort forward for the fourth-year classes in a hope that the bachelor degree could rebuild their self-esteem and self-identity as a full-member of the nursing profession. They also hope that the existing societal prejudice and differential treatments toward them will disappear in future nursing practices. Conclusion: This study concludes with some practical implications for nursing education for reformed nursing schools.

A Study on the Re-structuring Strategies of Korean Healthcare Facilities for Reinforcing it's Competition Power in the Emerging Global Healthcare Market (의료복지 분야의 국가경쟁력 강화를 위한 의료시설재편 및 그 실행방안에 관한 전략적 연구 - 광주, 전남지역의 의료현황과 문제점을 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Kwang-Seok
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 2004
  • This study aims to present the re-structuring strategies of healthcare facilities in Kwang-ju and Jon-nam province for it's competition power in the emerging global health care market. Kwang-Ju city and Jon-nam province have had difficulties in building a balanced healthcare system because of rapidly declining population, weakened healthcare infra-structure and geographical problems of healthcare supply by numerous islands. Now, Kwang-Ju city and Jon-nam province try to be a core place of economy and culture in the west-south asia. To do so, it is fundamentally necessary to reform their current social structure including healthcare system in large scale. This Study presents the current conditions and the problems of healthcare environment in these areas.

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