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The Effect of Mental Health on the Health-Related Quality of Life among the Elderly in Busan (부산시 노인의 정신건강이 건강관련 삶의 질에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Mi-Jin;Song, Gab-Sun
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.269-277
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting Health-related Quality of Life of Elderly in Busan. Then this study would like to present basic data that can be used in research into specific measures to improve Health-related Quality of Life of Elderly in Busan. The subjects of this study were a total of 3452 elders aged 65 or higher in 2016 Community Health Survey. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test and multiple linear. The results showed that subjective health status perception, depression, stress, education level, the national basic livelihood security, sleep duration, BMI, Marital status, hypertension were found to be the influencing factors of subjective happiness and explained 28.8% of Health-related Quality of Life.

Changing Trends of Income Packaging and Income Distribution : 1996-2002 (도시 근로자가구의 소득원 구성과 분배구조의 변화 : 1996-2002)

  • Kim, Kyo-Seong
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.55
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    • pp.181-204
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study was to offer a comprehensive analysis of the changing trends of the Korean income packaging, poverty rate, and level of income inequality from 1996 to 2002. In order to do that, this study used the micro-data of "Income and Expenditure Survey of Urban Households" by the National Statistical Office(NSO). Major results were as follows: (1) A ratio of public transfer in family income packaging increased at the DJ administration. (2) Poverty rate and Gini coefficient, which were 7.8% and 0.29 in 1996, rose to $8.8{\sim}10.4%$ and $0.30{\sim}0.34$ respectively during the year of 1998-2002. (3) However, poverty reduction effect and income inequality reduction effect of public income transfer increased preferably at the DJ administration. Those effects increased more since the enactment of National Basic Livelihood Security in 2000. Therefore, government should provide more national welfare programs to reduce the poverty rate and to improve better structure of income distribution.

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Development of Composite Deprivation Index for Korea: The Correlation with Standardized Mortality Ratio (표준화사망비와 지역결핍지수의 상관관계: 지역사회 통합결핍지수 개발)

  • Shin, Ho-Sung;Lee, Sue-Hyung;Chu, Jang-Min
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.42 no.6
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    • pp.392-402
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    • 2009
  • Objectives : The aims of this paper were to develop the composite deprivation index (CDI) for the sub-district (Eup-Myen-Dong) levels based on the theory of social exclusion and to explore the relationship between the CDI and the standardized mortality ratio (SMR). Methods : The paper calculated the age adjusted SMR and we included five dimensions of social exclusion for CDI; unemployment, poverty, housing, labor and social network. The proxy variables of the five dimensions were the proportion of unemployed males, the percent of recipients receiving National Basic Livelihood Security Act benefits, the proportion of households under the minimum housing standard, the proportion of people with a low social class and the proportion of single-parent household. All the variables were standardized using geometric transformation and then we summed up them for a single index. The paper utilized the 2004-2006 National Death Registry data, the 2003-2006 national residents' registration data, the 2005 Population Census data and the 2005-2006 means-tested benefit recipients' data. Results : The figures were 115.6, 105.8 and 105.1 for the CDI of metropolitan areas (big cities), middle size cities and rural areas, respectively. The distributional variation of the CDI was the highest in metropolitan areas (8.9 - 353.7) and the lowest was in the rural areas (26.8 - 209.7). The extent and relative differences of deprivation increased with urbanization. Compared to the Townsend and Carstairs index, the CDI better represented the characteristics of rural deprivation. The correlation with the SMR was statistically significant and the direction of the CDI effects on the SMR was in accordance with that of the previous studies. Conclusions : The study findings indicated mortality inequalities due to the difference in the CDI. Despite the attempt to improve deprivation measures, further research is warranted for the consensus development of a deprivation index.

Influence of Parental Socioeconomic Status on Stress, Depression and Suicidal Ideation among Korean Adolescents (부모의 사회 경제적 지위가 청소년의 스트레스, 우울, 자살생각에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Dahye;Jang, Soong-Nang
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.2667-2676
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    • 2013
  • This study was to examine the relationship between suicidal ideation, depression, stress and their parent's socioeconomic status. Nation-wide representative data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009 were used in this study. 904 adolescents with parent were analysed. Parent's socioeconomic status, especially mother's low educational level and the beneficiaries for national basic livelihood security were significant risk factor for adolescents' suicidal ideation. These associations remained significant in multiple logistic regression controlling for all covariates. The findings in the current study support the global literature on the importance of socioeconomic status in promoting adolescent's mental health. Future prevention intervention efforts to improve adolescent's suicide risk will need to take into consideration parent's and household's socioeconomic conditions. Future study is needed to explore the possible proximal risk factors and mediators between parent's socioeconomic status and mental health among adolescents.

Quality of Life in Low Income Korean Aged (기초생활보장 수급 노인의 삶의 질)

  • Kim, Hye-Ryoung;Oh, Ka-Sil;Oh, Kyong-Ok;Lee, Sun-Ock;Lee, Sook-Ja;Kim, Jeong-Ah;Jun, Hoa-Yun;Kang, Jung-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.38 no.5
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    • pp.694-703
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the quality of life and its predictors in low income Korean aged. Methods: This was a predictive correlational study. An accessible sample from the population of people who were 65 and over and were supported by the basic livelihood security system was 1,040. Quota sampling with strata of state division in the nation was chosen. Quality of life and its predictors in the subjects were measured. Results: The mean quality of life in the subjects was 47.0$\pm$10.7. Predictors of this study significantly explained 54.3% of the total variance of quality of life. Depression was the most significant predictor of quality of life. Health problems, district, social support, leisure activity, and health behavior had effects on quality of life. Conclusion: This finding indicates that quality of life in lower income Korean aged is different from other populations by economic status. Demographics, health status and social status were predictors of quality of life in the aged with a small income.

Factors affecting the Health Promotion Behaviors of the Low-Income Elderly Living Alone -Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Social Support (저소득 독거노인의 건강증진행위에 관한 융합적 연구 -사회적 지지의 매개효과를 중심으로-)

  • Cho, Sung-Hui
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.423-431
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    • 2015
  • This study aimed to examine the mediating effect of social support in the influence of depression on the health promotion behavior of low-income elderly living alone. The data were collected from 294 elderly recipients of national basic livelihood security who are living alone and the data were analyzed by path analysis. The results were that depression and social support had direct effect on health promotion behaviors and depression had indirect effect on health promotion behaviors through mediating effect of social support. Results showed the importance of depression and social support in the health promotion behaviors of the low-income elderly living alone, which should be considered in the intervention. On the basis of the results, practical suggestions to increase the health promotion behaviors of the low-income elderly living alone were discussed.

Labor Market Participation Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit in Korea (근로장려세제가 노동시장 참여에 미치는 효과)

  • Park, Jihye;Lee, Jungmin
    • Journal of Labour Economics
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.1-59
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    • 2018
  • The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a policy that supports low-income households financially as well as provides an economic incentive to participate in the labor market. Thus, estimating the causal effect of the policy on the labor force participation rate of low-income households is critical for the policy evaluation. In this paper, we exploit the variation in the eligibility to the EITC and the size of the benefit over several reforms of the EITC in South Korea since 2008 and estimate the impact on the participation in the labor market. Using data from four major household surveys, we find that the results are mixed; in some samples and specifications, we find that the effect is positive and statistically significant, while it is insignificant in others. The estimated effect is more likely to be positive and significant when we restrict the sample to the period before 2014. It is an important topic of future research whether the EITC's effect gets weaker because it is extended to cover the self-employed and beneficiaries of the National Basic Livelihood Security.

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A Study on Optimal Auditing Under the Living Wage System (생계급여하에서의 최적 소득조사)

  • Yoo, Hanwook
    • KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.207-237
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    • 2009
  • One of the main problems in Korea's public assistance program, the NBLS (National Basic Livelihood Security), is that the loophole of welfare system is continuously growing. Living wage program is the largest sub-program of the NBLS, and the most important determinant of amount of living wage for each beneficiary is the level of reported income. Therefore, accurate and effective income detection is essential in improving policy effects and furthermore reducing the leakage of wage expenditure as beneficiaries always have an incentive to underreport their income. Since most of them do not pay income tax, the welfare authority should exert an independent effort to effectively detect their income. Considering that living wage is a special kind of income tax of which marginal tax rate is -1, one can apply a classical theory of tax evasion to understand illegal or excessive receipt of living wage caused by income underreporting. Utilizing a classical theory given by Alingham and Sandmo (1972), this paper provides a theoretical analysis of the optimal income reporting of the beneficiary. Then an optimization problem is constructed from the government's viewpoint to derive optimal income detecting device (auditing). This paper proves that cut-off discriminated auditing outperforms random auditing and cut-off auditing which implies if the government assigns a positive audit probability to every reported income less than a certain level and the probability is inversely proportional to the level of reported income, it can minimize underreporting and then gradually reduce the leakage of wage expenditure.

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A Multi-level Analysis of Factors Affecting Participation in Health Screenings in Korea: A Focus on Household and Regional Factors

  • Park, So Yoon;Shin, Young-jeon
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.55 no.2
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    • pp.153-163
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    • 2022
  • Objectives: This study divided the factors that affect participation in health screenings into individual, household, and regional levels and conducted a multi-level analysis to identify the factors related to participation in health screenings. Methods: Participants from the 2017 Community Health Survey were classified into 2 groups (under 40 and 40 or older). A multi-level logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify the factors that affected participation in health screenings. Results: The screening rate of the participants was 69.7%, and it was higher among participants aged 40 and older (80.3%) than it was among participants younger than 40 (49.8%). At the individual level, the factors that influenced participation in health screenings included age, economic activity, smoking status, physician-diagnosed hypertension, and a moderate or high physical activity level. At the household level, the odds ratio of participation in health screenings was high for participants who lived in single-person households, lived with a spouse, earned a high monthly household income, and were not beneficiaries of national basic livelihood security. At the regional level, the odds ratio at the 95% confidence interval level of participation in health screenings was high for participants who had trust in the local community and lived in an area with a proportionally high social welfare budget. Conclusions: This study analyzed nationalwide data and confirmed that individual, household, and regional characteristics affected participation in health screenings. Therefore, policies that prioritize the improvement of regional level factors and especially household level factors are likely to be the most effective for improving the screening rate.

Effects of Social Support and Chronic Medical Conditions on Depressive Symptoms in Elderly People Living Alone in a Rural Community (농촌지역 독거노인의 사회적 지지 및 만성 의학적 질환이 우울증상에 미치는 영향)

  • Chae, Cholho;Lee, Sangsoo;Park, Chul-Soo;Kim, Bong-Jo;Lee, Cheol-Soon;Lee, So-Jin;Lee, Dongyun;Seo, Ji-Yeong;Ahn, In-Young;Choi, Jae-Won;Cha, Boseok
    • Journal of the Korean society of biological therapies in psychiatry
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.184-193
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    • 2018
  • Objectives : This study investigated the effects of social support and chronic medical conditions on depressive symptoms in elderly people living alone in a rural community. Methods : Sociodemographic information on 173 subjects aged 65 years or older who lived alone in a rural community and were recipients of National Basic Livelihood Security was collected and analyzed. All participants completed the Korean Form of the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Lubben Social Network Scale. Additionally, the current prevalence of chronic medical conditions that interfere with the activities of daily living was examined. Multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted to analyze the associations of social support and chronic medical conditions with depressive symptoms. Results : Social support(odds ratio: OR, 0.96; 95% confidence interval: 95% CI, 0.92-0.99) and chronic medical conditions(OR, 1.59; 95% CI, 1.23-2.05) were significantly associated with depressive symptoms in all subjects. When analyzed by gender, social support served as a protective factor against depressive symptoms in elderly men only(OR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.83-0.99), and chronic medical conditions increased the risk of depressive symptoms in elderly women only(OR, 1.74; 95% CI, 1.26-2.40). Furthermore, osteoarthritis and lumbar pain were risk factors for depressive symptoms in all subjects(OR, 2.24; 95% CI, 1.10-4.56 and OR, 2.10; 95% CI, 1.08-4.12) and in elderly women(OR, 4.07; 95% CI, 1.68-9.84 and OR, 3.34; 95% CI, 1.47-7.57), respectively. Conclusion : This study indicates that improving the social support and managing the chronic medical conditions of elderly people living alone are important for the prevention of depression in this population. Additionally, the present results suggest that it is necessary to establish different depression-prevention strategies for elderly men and women living alone.