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Study on Economic Valuation of Manufacturing Technology of Platycodon grandiflorum Using Contingent Valuation Method - Focusing on the Virtual Market of Platycodon grandiflorum's Health Functions Food - (조건부가치측정법(CVM)을 이용한 도라지 제조기술의 경제적 가치 추정 연구 -도라지 건강기능식품 가상시장을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Hyun Ji;Chang, Insu;Jo, Haeun;Kim, Brian H.S
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.137-147
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    • 2020
  • Rural Development Administration (RDA) has developed a manufacturing technology which can increase the amount of platycodin D in Platycodon grandiflorum. A study is needed to estimate the value of this new technology and predict the market demand for a new product. This study estimates additional amount of willingness to pay (WTP) using contingent valuation method (CVM) for a new product with the technology that RDA has developed. The survey was created under virtual health functional foods market of Platycodon grandiflorums. It was conducted with 1,000 adult males and females aged between 19 and 59 years old in 17 major cities and provinces nationwide from December 4 to December 7, 2018. The amount of WTP for the health functional Platycodon grandiflorum was drawn using maxinum likelihood estimation method. The estimated average and median WTP values are 21,933.85 won per person and 10,000 won per person, respectively. The independent factors, including the ratio of monthly average health function food consumption to income, the average monthly income level of a household, and existence of family members or relatives engaged in food and nutrition-related professions in a household, have been shown to have a statistically significant influence on the WTP. This study presents the potential magnitude of health functional food market and the value of the new technology based on health functional food market.

A Comparison of the Dietary Habit and Nutrient Intakes of Korean Farmers according to Different Family Patterns and Farming Types

  • Rhie, Seoung-Gyo;Park, Yaungja
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.3 no.5
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    • pp.739-747
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to compare the dietary habit and nutrient intakes of Korean farmers according to their different family patterns and farming types. Food and nutrient intakes were obtained by food frequency method. The subjects(male 35%, female 65% : mean age, $48{\pm}11 years)$ were compared 46% of nuclear family, 59% of 3-4 person of family size ; 50% of middle-scale farming ; 54% of rice farming. Sixteen percent were over 60 years old group. In aspects of dietary habit, farmers of medium size farming and 10-20 years of farming experience frequently skipped meals. But their appetite was better than small farm famers. Dinner irregularity was more frequent in their group of 3-4 person families. The numbers of food intake were significantly different according to family pattern. Nuclear family groups consumed more kinds of foods. The mean energy intake was 2000Kcal/day, with PFC ratio of 19 : 16 : 65. The energy and nutrient intakes showed the same tendency as the food variety. Intakes of calcium and iron were lower than the Korean RDA. Families with over 5 people consumed higher amounts of protein and minerals. Intakes of thiamin, niacin, and vitamin E were better in large families and large-scale farming groups. As compared with the PMS ratio, the level of monounsaturated fatty acids as higher than saturated FA. The lipid intake was also better in large families and large-scale farming. The results suggest that dietary habit and nutrient intakes were different by family pattern and farming types.

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The Study of Infant Feeding in Weaning Period (서울 지역 어린이의 이유 실태 조사)

  • Sohn, Kyung-Hee;Yoon, Sun;Lee, Young-Mee;Jeon, Joo-Hye
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.107-115
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    • 1992
  • This retrospective study was conducted to investigate the growth of children and their care person's weaning behaviors and its relation between the growth and care person's attitude and behaviors about weaning. 272 subjects who had child under 2 years old at that time were randomly selected and answered the special questionnaire. Results were as follows: Using to Kaup index, 13.4% of children were estimated undernutrition, 60.6% were normal and 26.0% were estimated overnutrition. 97.6% of respondant (children's mother) were recognized the need of weaning and the first prurpose of weaning was supplement of nutrients, and the next one was to set up normal food habits. 39.1% of subjects were used normal adult foods as weaning food. 60.9% of subjects were proepared special foods (making at home or buying commercial weaning food). The socioeconomic status was major factor to influence mother's behaviors about weaning. Vegetable and meat gruel was the most commen weaning food and the next one was fruits puree and rice with soup. The correlationship were found between Kaup index and the score of mother's weaning behaviors, between momer's eductional level and the score of weanig behaviors. 96% of subjects wanted nutritional education about weaning. They wanted to know about desirable weaning process and correct informations of commercial weaning foods mid the convenient cooking methods. According to the difference of socioeconomic status subjects were wanted different eductional methods. Upper socioeconomic group wanted special books about weaning and lower class wanted to be educted through the mass media especially television programs.

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Safety Evaluation of Iopamidol Contrast Medium Used for Radiological Examination of a Local Clinic in Korea (방사선 검사에 사용되는 조영제 Iopamidol의 안전성 평가)

  • Park, Chang-Mook;Lee, Bo-Reum;Song, Tea-Bum;Jang, Je-Kwan;Lee, Yu-Jeung;Lee, Myung-Koo;Lim, Sung-Cil
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.328-333
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    • 2009
  • Contrast media are substances that are used to enhance the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging. Those are commonly used to enhance the visibility of blood vessels and the gastrointestinal tract. The aim of this study is to evaluate patients who got injected iopamidol, developed as one of contrast medium regarding changes in cardiovascular system and especially, adverse drug reactions. This study were performed on randomly selected a total of 51 patients (range of 15~85 years old) who got injected contrast medium, Iopamidol at a P hospital in Gyeonggi province from September 22nd, 2008 to January 24th, 2009. Data were collected by questionnaire though person to person. We analyzed the data by SPSS (Version 12. for windows). Methods of analysis were frequency and cross analysis. In results, 19.6% (n=10) were founded for adverse drug reactions of contrast medium. 25.0% (n=4) of 10 patients who had adverse drug reactions of contrast medium had took abdomen contrast test. 2 patients of those took contrast test for chest. Also, 3.9% (n=2) patients felt vomiting and nausea after injection of contrast medium. In conclusion, 19.6% patients experienced adverse drug reaction of contrast medium. Therefore, when taking radiation test, we should make efforts to minimize adverse drug reactions to achieve suitable and effective treatment.

Evaluation of User Satisfaction for Drink Bottle (음료용기의 사용자 만족도 조사 연구 - Cap이 달린 유리 및 PET용기를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Sang-Sik
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.6 no.11
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    • pp.172-181
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    • 2006
  • Universal designs begins from observing things. This paper understands contradiction and irrationality about drink bottle used unintentionally in our common life. Those have not found out until now. So an example observation about problem derivation and a practice method of Universal design is presented. People of various classes, such as a child, an old person and a woman, a male, the man in the street, and a disabled person, have been using drink bottle recently. However, the design of drink bottle has become on the basis of the fine and common man, so the other people, for example, children or handicapped persons experience many situations which cannot open cap or cannot be drunk without external help. This research posed questions from the children to the elders about drink bottle by the viewpoint of universal design paying attention to such problems. In the research result, the fixed quantity and qualitative quantity about problem are commented. And the fixed quantity utilized frequency analysis and chi-square verification ($X^2$) for the questionnaire result on the basis, and the qualitative quantity pointed out result in the universal design principle through the data of a precedence research result. An alternative plan for drink bottle's design is presented through case observation of conceptual approach to method of Universal design.

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A Convergence study Differences of Obesity, Depression, and Quality of Life depending on Eating-alone in Unmarried Adults (미혼 성인의 혼밥 유무에 따른 비만, 우울과 삶의 질 차이에 대한 융복합 연구)

  • Park, Ji Hyeon;Cho, Haeryun
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2020
  • This convergence study investigated the differences in obesity, depression, and quality of life of unmarried adults who ate alone. Secondary data from the 7th National Health-Nutrition Survey in Korea was analyzed using the SPSS 24.0 program. We utilized data from 344 unmarried adults who received three meals per day. Our results showed that the rate of eating-alone was higher in the group with participants who were over 30-year-old, belonged to single-person households, and had low incomes. The group which ate alone had high depression scores and low quality of life scores. When developing a health promotion program, it is necessary to manage depression and quality of life of persons who eat alone and belong to single-person households.

A Reform Proposal of Involuntary Commitment Law Under the Revised Mental Health Act of 2016 - as well as of Article 947-2 (2) of Civil Code - (개정 정신건강복지법상 비자의입원 규제에 대한 입법론적 고찰 - 민법 제947조의2 제2항의 검토를 겸하여 -)

  • Lee, Dongjin
    • The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.99-137
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    • 2018
  • Under the Korean law, there are two routes of involuntary civil commitment of the mentally-ill: involuntary commitment process under the Mental Health Act (MHA) and the guardian's commitment backed up by family court approval under article 947-2 (2) of the Civil Code. Despite of the recent fundamental revision of MHA in 2016, the Korean involuntary commitment law has still serious flaws, especially the lack of due process like prior notice, hearing, and independent guardian ad litem for the mentally-ill, which has been pointed out also by the Korean Constitutional Court. Thus, a re-revision is inevitable, and this time, we should proceed to rebuild the underlying structure of involuntary commitment. In this regard, it is crucial to eliminate the old-fashioned and unjustifiable burden as well as power of the so-called responsible person to protect the mentally-ill and to readjust the causes and standings to petition of the various types of involuntary commitment process. Also it is necessary to repeal involuntary commitment by guardian under the Civil Code, article 947-2 (2), which can no longer harmonize with modern involuntary commitment system.

Implementation of Android application to judge the daily route deviation via the GPS information on smart phones (스마트폰의 GPS 정보를 이용한 일상 경로 이탈 판단 어플리케이션 구현)

  • Cha, Kyung-Ae;Hyun, Sung-Young
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2013
  • As smart phone is daily used by most people, various location-based applications have been developed. Moreover, it is increased the requirements of location-based services that utilize Google maps, GPS sensing information and etc.. In this paper, we develop a smart phone application providing notification services by detecting the daily route deviation. We develop the server system which receives GPS information gathering from user's smart phone and analyse the user's regular routes. With the results from the analyzation the GPS coordinates, the application on a smart phone detects the case of a breakaway from regular routes. And then it can inform automatically and immediately the designed person such as guardians of children or the old and the infirm of the route deviation so will be helpful to protect such person. This is one example of the effectiveness of the application. Moreover, the application is developed on the client-server framework, thus it is very useful to judge the user's daily route deviation in realtime by using the accumulated information on the corresponding DB. Finally we evaluated the proposed methods which had been implemented on smart phones and show the utilities of the application.

Structural Relations of Interpersonal Relationships, Life Satisfaction and Depression among People Living Alone (일인가구의 대인관계와 삶의 만족 및 우울의 구조적 관계)

  • Lee, Hyunmin;Kim, Wook-Jin
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.147-177
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    • 2018
  • To form a foundation of basic materials to contribute in improved mental health of one-person households, the purpose of this study is to investigate the association of interpersonal relationships and depression and to identify indirect effect of satisfaction with life. To this end, the study used structural equation modeling, employing data from the 2012 Korean General Social Survey(KGSS), a nationally representative survey and targeted 300 living alone people who is older than 20 years old. The findings are as follows: First, the quality of interpersonal relationships has a negative effect on depression and can relieve depression. It also revealed that one-person households are not isolated from relationships and they utilize not only kin relational resources but non-kin resources while forming a positive relationships. Second, the quality of interpersonal relationships effects one's life satisfaction which ultimately has an effect on depression. It verifies that, within interpersonal relationship and depression, there are indirect effect resulting from satisfaction with life. Based on the result of current study, practical intervention programs to improve life satisfaction and prevent depression were suggested.

A pilot study for target selection of Korean Medicine public health promotion programs on single person, low income, senior households: Based on the 2017 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (65세 이상 저소득층 1인 가구 대상 한의약 건강증진 프로그램 타겟 선정을 위한 탐색적 조사연구: 2017년 국민건강영양조사 결과를 바탕으로)

  • Ko, Youme;Cho, Wonje;Im, Jungkwon;Jeon, Yoonjeong;Kang, Kyungrae;Shin, Yong Cheol;Jang, Bo-Hyoung;Ko, Seong-Gyu
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 2019
  • Objectives : The aim of this study was to explore the general characteristics and health risk factors of the low income single person household in elderly Korean population for target selection of Korean medicine public health promotion program. Methods : We collect the 826 low income over 65 years old participants data from 7th Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The demographic, life habit, health status, medical history were used to compare the difference between single and multiple low income senior households. Results : All variables except drinking and smoking were statistically significant between single and multiple low income senior households. The health risk factors in single low income senior households were gender, overweight, Medicaid, annual drinking habit, diagnosis of diabetes. Conclusions : Through this study, we found out that the overweight, monthly drinking habit, diagnosis of diabetes were health risk factors in low income senior single households.