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A Literature Review of Issues and Tasks by Period of Revision of Regulations Related to Convalescent Rehabilitation Wards in Japan: Focusing on Quality Evaluation

  • Lee, Minyoung;Jeon, Boyoung
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.26-37
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: Japan established the convalescent rehabilitation wards, corresponding to Korea's rehabilitation medical institutions, in 2000 and developed it into the present system through continuous revisions. This study sought to analyze the issues and tasks faced by Japan segregated by the period of revision of convalescent rehabilitation ward-related medical fee regulations, through a literature review and further aimed to explore the direction of development of domestic rehabilitation medical institutions. Methods: Ten revisions of the medical fee regulations were classified into three stages based on quality evaluation: (1) the quantitative expansion stage (2000-2006); (2) quality evaluation introduction stage (2008-2014); and (3) quality evaluation maturity stage (2016-2020). Results: The following issues and tasks emerged: (1) For the quantitative expansion stage; insufficient rehabilitation within the ward, insufficient after-hour rehabilitation, insufficient connection with acute-stage hospitals and maintenance facilities, and the low ratio of specialists. (2) For the quality evaluation introduction stage; disparity in the manpower between institutions, the necessity of a 365-day rehabilitation system, avoidance of critical patients, and the problem that an increase in the amount of rehabilitation did not lead to a qualitative improvement. 3) For the quality evaluation maturity stage; cream-skimming issues in selecting patients, inappropriate evaluation of rehabilitation effects, and the necessity of follow-up measures after discharge. Conclusion: It is worth referring to the established regulations in Japan, and concurrently it is necessary to strengthen the evaluation of the structures, processes, and results when operating and evaluating rehabilitation medical institutions in Korea taking into account the side effects that could be identified in Japan.

An Analysis of Consumer's Willingness to Pay for the Improvement of Agricultural Land's Nutrition Balance (농경지 양분수지 개선에 대한 소비자 지불의사 분석)

  • Jo, Woo-Young;Lee, Seul-Bi;Park, Hye-Jin;Kim, Gil-Won;Kim, Tae-Young
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.167-189
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    • 2023
  • Korea has become the highest nitrogen balance (228 kg/ha) among 34 OECD member countries, and has the stigma of being a 'Nutrient overload country' as of 2019. Accordingly, research on the derivation and utilization of nutrient balance indicators and the 'regional nutrient management system' are being promoted to improve Korea's nutrient balance. It is necessary to support these policies and studies, form a public consensus on improving the nutrient balance, and evaluate the function of the public benefit. This paper aims to estimate the public benefit value of improving the nutrient balance based on an analysis of consumers' willingness to pay and recognition of Korea's nutrient excess for 600 consumers nationwide. As results, 21.2% of the respondents said they were aware of excessive nutrients in Korea, and 76.7% of the respondents said they were aware of the need for nutrient management. The average amount of intention to pay for the improvement of three pollution (soil, water quality, and air) that can occur due to a nutrient overload was ₩2,321.1 for soil pollution improvement, ₩2,391.2 for water pollution improvement, and ₩2,377.9 for air pollution improvement. The average willingness to pay for the three pollution reduction was ₩6,002.3. These results are expected to be used to form a public consensus on the balance of payments and to establish measures to enhance public interest values in the future.

Requirements for Regulatory Mixing Zone on Outfall design and positioning (방류관의 설계 및 배치에서의 법적 혼합역의 필요)

  • Kim Jj-Yeon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.153-158
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    • 2004
  • The numerous investments have been introduced to design and assess mixing zone characteristics of wastewater discharges to the ocean. Specially It strive to meet water quality standard for persistent and bio-accumulative chemical contaminants at the point of discharge through continual improvement pollution prevention measures and other voluntary measures in the developed country. The goals that of this paper are to emphasize the regulatory mixing zone is defined as an allocated impact zone where the numeric water quality criteria may be exceeded as long as acutely toxic conditions are prevent. Furthermore, mixing zones be limited to an area or volume as small as practicable that with not interfere with the designated uses or the established community of aquatic life in the segment for which the uses are designated and the shape be a simple configuration that is easy to locate in the body of water and avoids impingement on biologically important areas and the shore hugging plumes should be avoided This results should be used with caution in evaluation the mixing zone characteristics of a discharge and only in conjunction with information from the effective marine outfall design as well as for the sound harbour design. Thus the numerical investigation using CORMIX has been performed to show the regulatory mixing zone in the near and far field of the marine outfall.

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Analysis of the Difference Between Purchasing Decision Factors and Quality Satisfaction of Community Social Service Investment (지역사회서비스투자사업의 구매결정 요인과 품질만족 차이 분석)

  • Jang, Chun_Ok;Lee, Jung-Eun
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.251-256
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    • 2021
  • Currently, in the field of community service, it is expected that the demand will further increase in the future by enabling the form of providing various types of services. However, the local community service investment project is an abstract Although the structure for fair competition was created by introducing a market mechanism derived from the action or principle of psychology that affects human behavior in the field, systematic management and monitoring of the quality of social services is insufficient. The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between service selection factors and service quality in order to improve the quality of social services in the consumer's way to meet these environmental needs, and to utilize the research results for quality improvement. The research model to be used in this paper measures the five element areas of service satisfaction such as reliability, responsiveness, empathy, certainty, and tangibility, which are used to measure the quality of local community service investment projects. In addition, we are various strategic implications that can induce the quality improvement of local community service investment projects are presented by finding the main factors of the four research hypotheses of this study and utilizing the results.

A Study for Improving Trade and Commerce between Korea and Russia

  • Park, Ho-Yong;Lee, Kil-Nam
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.339-361
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    • 2009
  • This paper attempts to provide a way to improvement in trade & commerce between Korea and Russia, analyzing the influence of the circumstances of the Russian economy on economic relations between the two countries. The study briefly reviews the current situation of the Russian economy, and tries to examine the strong points to be considered as leverage for cooperation and the weak points to be overcome. Previous studies have determined that the Russian economy has unlimited potential for growth, because it is endowed with abundant resources, and has a government willing to reform for the opening of the economy, as well as high-quality labor. However, the economic structure is vulnerable to impact of the worldwide financial crisis. It is not possible to overlook its institutional fragility and vulnerability such as a corrupt bureaucracy or a relatively large black market. These undesirable factors may not only undermine the basis of Russia economy but also a hindrance to economic cooperation by increasing economic uncertainty. This paper attempts to analyze comprehensively the socio-economic factors that influence the open-economy of Russia, and to illustrate strategies for improvement in trade and commerce through the viewpoint of Korean firms that are already in business or are trying to enter in the near future. Some measures to improve their economic cooperation are suggested at the end.

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A Study on Aesthetic Improvement Methods of Wooden Furniture according to the reconstruction of Wood Shake and Gnarl (목재 할렬과 옹이형태 재구성에 의한 원목가구의 심미성 제고방안 연구)

  • Chol, Ki;Song, Yoon-Sup
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.314-325
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    • 2010
  • Shake and gnarl in the timber market are considered as a defect of reducing the quality of timber. However, this study expects that shake and gnarl are the optimum design tools to improve aesthetics of furniture if their unique form is properly used as formative expression factors of wooden furniture. This study is conducted to suggest methods in order for consumers and designers to consider shake and gnarl as new formative factors and apply them to wooden furniture designs. The study conducts a preference survey of general people by manufacturing furniture that has or doesn't have shake and gnarl, and measures the level of aesthetics after providing furniture design majors with furniture image that reprocesses shake and gnarl in a new way. According to the findings, shake and gnarl have latent aesthetic values, which verifies that various methods can be used to improve aesthetics of wooden furniture by means of a case study. By applying hidden authentic value of the verified shake and gnarl to furniture design, various improvement methods of aesthetics will have to be actively studied.

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A Study for Improving Trade and Commerce between Korea and Russia

  • Park, Ho-Yong;Lee, Kil-Nam
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.83-103
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    • 2009
  • This paper attempts to provide a way to improvement in trade & commerce between Korea and Russia, analyzing the influence of the circumstances of the Russian economy on economic relations between the two countries. The study briefly reviews the current situation of the Russian economy, and tries to examine the strong points to be considered as leverage for cooperation and the weak points to be overcome. Previous studies have determined that the Russian economy has unlimited potential for growth, because it is endowed with abundant resources, and has a government willing to reform for the opening of the economy, as well as high-quality labor. However, the economic structure is vulnerable to impact of the worldwide financial crisis. It is not possible to overlook its institutional fragility and vulnerability such as a corrupt bureaucracy or a relatively large black market. These undesirable factors may not only undermine the basis of Russia economy but also a hindrance to economic cooperation by increasing economic uncertainty. This paper attempts to analyze comprehensively the socio-economic factors that influence the open-economy of Russia, and to illustrate strategies for improvement in trade and commerce through the viewpoint of Korean firms that are already in business or are trying to enter in the near future. Some measures to improve their economic cooperation are suggested at the end.

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Ways to Improve the Government Statistics : Labour Demand Survey (정부통계의 개선 방안: 《노동력수요동향조사》)

  • 김병조;이건
    • Proceedings of the Korean Association for Survey Research Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.61-81
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    • 2001
  • Government statistics have been treated the most reliable data sources in Korea. In the last 20 years, the numbers and scopes of the government statistics have been expended rapidly. Although government statistics have been widely used in many researches, research methods used in collecting government statistics have not been discussed often. In 1998, we reviewed the survey questionnaire, data collecting methods and procedures of one government statistics, the Labor Demand Survey. Based on the pilot study, we also proposed several survey methods for the quality improvement of the survey. The Ministry of Labor had adopted some suggestions in 1999 survey. This paper introduces the ways in which we investigated the Labor Demand Survey,, detected the problems and issues in the survey, suggestions for the improvement of the survey, and several survey methods adopted by the Ministry of Labor. However, the effects of the new measures are not included in this paper, and will be studied in the near future when the data become available.

Ways to Improve the Government Statistics : Labour Demand Survey (정부통계의 개선방안 : $\ll$노동력수요동향조사$\gg$)

  • Kim, Byeong-Jo;Lee, Kun
    • Survey Research
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.61-81
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    • 2001
  • Government statistics have been treated the most reliable data sources in Korea. In the last 20 years, the numbers and scopes of the government statistics have been expended rapidly. Although government statistics have been widely used in many researches. research methods used in collecting government statistics have not been discussed often. In 1998. we reviewed the survey questionnaire. data collecting methods and procedures of one government statistics. the Labor Demand Survey. Based on the pilot study. we also proposed several survey methods for the quality improvement of the survey. The Ministry of Labor had adopted some suggestions in 1999 survey. This paper introduces the ways in which we investigated the Labor Demand survey. detected the problems and issues in the survey. suggestions for the improvement of the survey. and several survey methods adopted by the Ministry of Labor. However, the effects of the new measures are not included in this paper. and will be studied in the near future when the data become available.

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A Study on the Improvement of Clearance Procedure for Electronic Trade (전자무역을 위한 통관업무의 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Bong-Soo
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.37
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    • pp.253-273
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    • 2008
  • The thesis examines the problems for improvement of clearance procedure and shows the various ways of overcoming them. Practical implications regarding the innovation of clearance procedure are as follows. First, the basis of information for customs clearance service should be built for unifying customs clearance information and imports and exports goods. Second, Customs Service need to keep on trying continuously that customs clearance system should be inter-convertible in the inside and outside of the country. Third, reliable law and execution system should be needed to revitalize customs clearance business and the government need to take measures for new system which is suitable for our own country. Finally, mutual cooperation administration system for customer in domestic and foreign country should be made for supplying high quality clearance service. As we have reviewed above contents, the customs clearance business meet the needs of innovation with new information technique to overcome lots of problems which come by when we execute simplification of customs clearance procedure and customs inspection administration fairly. As well as, when we review a few methods in the line of our customs system, we need strongly completion of related system and arrangements in trade business and similar fields. Hereafter we hope the limitation of this study should be overcome by the process of proper inspections through subsequent studies.

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