• 한국사회복지학
• /
• 제69권3호
• /
• pp.9-33
• /
• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 우리나라 아동빈곤의 사회경제적 비용을 추계하는 것이다. 선행 연구를 통해 직접비용과 간접비용 항목을 선정하였고, 선정된 각 비용 항목에 대해 기존 데이터 수집과 전문가 델파이 조사를 진행하여 사회경제적 비용을 산출하였으며, 이러한 총 비용을 우리나라의 GDP에 대비하여 살펴보았다. 본 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 2015년 우리나라 아동빈곤의 사회경제적 비용은 절대 빈곤율 기준 총 55조3,009억(GDP대비 3.5%),상대 빈곤율 기준 99조6,858억원(GDP대비 6.5%)에 이르는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 아동 빈곤의 사회경제적 비용은 직접비용에 비해 간접비용이 훨씬 큰 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 전체 비용 항목 중에서 절대 빈곤율과 상대 빈곤율 기준 모두 가장 큰 비중을 차지하는 것은 생산성 손실과 미취업/실직 등의 고용 관련 비용이었고, 그 다음에 범죄비용으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 빈곤 아동에 대한 조기 개입, 부모와 자녀에게 동시에 개입하는 이세대 프로그램 실시, 빈곤 아동 같은 고위험 집단의 경우 장기적이고 지속적인 개입과 더불어 통합적 개입이 필요함을 강조하였다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• /
• 제43권4호
• /
• pp.341-351
• /
• 2010

The purpose of this study was to estimate the socioeconomic costs resulting from alcohol drinking among adolescents as of 2006 from a societal perspective. Methods: The costs were classified into direct costs, indirect costs, and other costs. The direct costs consisted of direct medical costs and direct non-medical costs. The indirect costs were computed by future income losses from premature death, productivity losses from using medical services and reduction of productivity from drinking and hangover. The other costs consisted of property damage, public administrative expenses, and traffic accident compensation. Results: The socioeconomic costs of alcohol drinking among adolescents as of 2006 were estimated to be 387.5 billion won (0.05% of GDP). In the case of the former, the amount included 48.25% for reduction of productivity from drinking and hangover, 39.38% for future income losses from premature death, and 6.71% for hangover costs. Conclusions: The results showed that the socioeconomic costs of alcohol drinking among adolescents in Korea were a serious as compared with that of the United States. Therefore, the active interventions such as a surveillance system and a prevention program to control adolescents drinking by government and preventive medicine specialist are needed.

• 한국아동복지학
• /
• 제53호
• /
• pp.25-50
• /
• 2016

본 연구는 우리나라 아동학대의 사회경제적 비용을 추계하는 것이다. 문헌 고찰을 통해 직접비용과 간접비용 항목을 선정하였고, 선정된 각 비용 항목에 대해 기존 데이터 수집과 전문가 델파이 조사를 진행하여 사회경제적 비용을 산출하였으며, 이러한 총 비용을 우리나라의 GDP에 대비하여 살펴보았다. 본 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 2014년 우리나라 아동학대의 사회경제적 비용은 최소 총 3,899억원(GDP 대비 0.03%), 최대 76조원(GDP 대비 5.1%)에 이르는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 아동학대의 사회경제적 비용은 직접비용에 비해 간접비용이 훨씬 큰 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 전체 비용 항목 중에서 가장 큰 비중을 차지하는 것은 고용 관련 비용이었다. 그리고 선진국에 비해 아동보호 직접 예산의 비중이 매우 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 아동보호 예산을 늘려야 하고, 아동학대 발견율을 높이는 방안 마련이 시급히 필요하며, 간접비용을 줄이기 위해 학대 경험 아동의 전문적인 조기 치료에 힘쓰는 것이 중요함을 논의하였다.

• 한국사회복지학
• /
• 제61권2호
• /
• pp.371-389
• /
• 2009

실종아동문제는 한 가정의 문제로 끝나는 것이 아니라 사회문제로 발전할 수 있다는 데에 그 심각성이 있다. 하지만 실종아동문제에 대한 사회적 관심은 초보적인 수준에 머무르고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 실종아동문제에 대한 사회적 관심을 불러일으키기 위해 아동실종의 사회경제적 비용을 추계하는 것이다. 전체적으로 1명의 장기실종아동이 발생하였을 경우, 약 5억 7천만원 정도의 비용이 발생하였다. 직접비용은 약 6,532만원으로 전체의 11.5%였으며 간접비용은 약 5억원으로 전체의 88.5%였다. 이는 실종을 예방하는 것이 가장 중요하지만, 실종 이후에는 단기간 내 찾기가 매우 중요함을 보여주고 있다. 본 연구결과를 통해 실종으로 인한 사회경제적 비용이 계산되어 실종에 대한 국민의 관심을 유발할 수 있고 예방에 대한 적정 투자비용에 관하여 자료를 추산할 수 있으며, 결과적으로 실종 예방에 대한 적극적인 국가적 투자를 유인할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• /
• 제39권1호
• /
• pp.21-29
• /
• 2006

Objectives: We wanted to estimate the annual socioeconomic costs of alcohol drinking in Korea. Methods: The costs were classified as direct costs, indirect costs and the other costs. The direct costs consisted of direct medical costs, indirect medical costs and subsidiary medical costs. Particularly, the medical costs and population attributable fraction for disease were considered to reflect the calculation of the direct medical costs. The indirect costs were computed by the extent to which the loss of productivity and loss of the workforce might have occurred due to changes in mortality and morbidity according to alcohol drinking. The other costs consisted of property loss, administration costs and costs of alcoholic beverage. Results: The annual costs, which seemed to be attributable to alcohol drinking, were estimated to be 149,352 hundred million won (2.86% of GDP). In case of the latter, the amount includes 9,091 hundred million won for direct costs (6.09%), 62,845 hundred million won for the reduction and loss of productivity (42.08%), 44,691 hundred million won for loss of the workforce (29.92%), and the other costs (21.91%). Conclusions: Our study confirms that compared with the cases of Japan (1.9% of GNP) and the other advanced countries (1.00-1.42% of GDP), alcohol drinking incurs substantial socioeconomic costs to the Korean society. Therefore, this study provides strong support for government interventions to control alcohol drinking in Korea.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• /
• 제43권4호
• /
• pp.352-361
• /
• 2010

Objectives: This study estimated the annual socioeconomic costs of food-borne disease in 2008 from a societal perspective and using a cost-of-illness method. Methods: Our model employed a comprehensive set of diagnostic disease codes to define food-borne diseases with using the Korea National Health Insurance (KNHI) reimbursement data. This study classified the food borne illness as three types of symptoms according to the severity of the illness: mild, moderate, severe. In addition to the traditional method of assessing the cost-of-illness, the study included measures to account for the lost quality of life. We estimated the cost of the lost quality of life using quality-adjusted life years and a visual analog scale. The direct cost included medical and medication costs, and the non-medical costs included transportation costs, caregiver's cost and administration costs. The lost productivity costs included lost workdays due to illness and lost earnings due to premature death. Results: The study found the estimated annual socioeconomic costs of food-borne disease in 2008 were 954.9 billion won (735.3 billion won-996.9 billion won). The medical cost was 73.4 -76.8% of the cost, the lost productivity cost was 22.6% and the cost of the lost quality of life was 26.0%. Conclusions: Most of the cost-of-illness studies are known to have underestimated the actual socioeconomic costs of the subjects, and these studies excluded many important social costs, such as the value of pain, suffering and functional disability. The study addressed the uncertainty related to estimating the socioeconomic costs of food-borne disease as well as the updated cost estimates. Our estimates could contribute to develop and evaluate policies for food-borne disease.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• /
• 제35권1호
• /
• pp.1-12
• /
• 2002

Objective : To estimate the socioeconomic costs of obesity in Korea,1998. Methods : The 1998 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey(1998 NHNES) data was used and 10,880 persons who had taken health examinations were selected for study. Essential hypertension, NIDDM(non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus), dyslipidemia, osteoarthritis, coronary heart disease, stroke were included as obesity related disease. The data of direct costs of obesity was obtained from the National Federation of Medical Insurance. The category of indirect costs was the loss of productivity caused by premature death and admission, time costs, traffic costs, nursing fees due to obesity. Multiple logistic regression model was developed to estimate prevalence odds ratio by obesity class adjusted demographic and socio-ecnomic factors and calculate PAF(Population Attributable Fraction) of obesity on obesity related disease. And we finally calculated the socioeconomic costs of obesity in relation to BMI with PAF. Results : The direct costs of obesity were 2,126 billion${\sim}965$ billion Won in considering out of pocket payment to uninsured services, and the indirect costs of obesity were 2,099 billion${\sim}1,086$ billion Won. Consequently, in considering out of pocket payment to uninsured services, the socioeconomic costs of obesity were 4.225 billion${\sim}2,050$ billion Won, which corresponded to about $0.094%{\sim}0.046%$ of GDP and $1.88%{\sim}0.91$ of total health care costs in Korea. Conclusions : Obesity represents a major health problem with significant economic implications for the society. This results are conservative estimates as far as all obesity related disease and all health care and indirect costs were not included due to missing information. further studies are needed to caculate socioeconomic costs of obesity more exactly.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• /
• 제39권6호
• /
• pp.499-504
• /
• 2006

Objectives : The aim of the study was to estimate the annual socioeconomic cost of diseases in Korea. Methods : We estimate both the direct and indirect costs of diseases in Korea during 2003 using a prevalence-based approach. The direct cost estimates included medical expenditures, traffic costs and caregiver's cost, and the indirect costs, representing the loss of production, included lost workdays due to illness and lost earnings due to premature death, which were estimated based on the human capital theory. The cost estimates were reported at three different discount rates (0, 3 and 5%). Results : The cost of diseases in Korea during 2003 was 38.4 trillion won based on 0% discount rate. This estimate represents approximately 5.3% of GDP The direct and indirect costs were estimated to be 22.5 trillion (58.5% of total cost) and 15.9 trillion won (41.5%), respectively. It was also found that the cost for those aged $40\sim49$ accounted for the largest proportion (21.7%) in relation to age groups. The cost of diseases for males was 23.5% higher than that for females. For major diseases, the total socioeconomic costs were 16.0, 13.4, 11.3 and 11.19% for neoplasms, and diseases of the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, respectively. Conclusions : This study can be expected to provide valuable information for determining intervention and funding priorities, and for planning health policies.

• 대한한방부인과학회지
• /
• 제23권1호
• /
• pp.72-82
• /
• 2010

Purpose: This study was conducted to estimate the annual socioeconomic costs of menopausal syndrome treated with oriental medicine in Korea 2008. Methods: Study subjects selected were patients aged 40 years or older who had national health insurance(NHI) claims record with menopausal syndrome(KCDO codes: K04, K04.0, K04.2, K04.3, K04.4) for oriental medicine treatment in 2008. Direct medical cost of oriental medicine treatment for menopausal syndrome were measured from NHI claims records. Direct non-medical costs were estimated as transportation costs incurred when visiting hospitals. Indirect costs were defined as patients' productivity loss associated with office visits or hospitalization. Also, the costs of unpaid-household chores were calculated. Results: The total cost for the oriental medicine treatment of menopausal syndrome in the nation was estimated to be 743,091,219 Korean won(KRW) which included direct costs at 442,971,637 KRW and indirect costs at 300,119,583 KRW. Conclusion: This study provides an important perspective of socioecnomic influence due to menopausal syndrome treated with oriental medicine. And this results can be used as elementary data for menopausal syndrome-related health policy of oriental medicine.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• /
• 제42권1호
• /
• pp.5-11
• /
• 2009

Objectives : This study was conducted to estimate the socioeconomic cost of injuries in South Korea. Methods : We matched claims data from national health insurance, automobile insurance and industrial accident compensation insurance(IACI), and mortality data obtained from the national statistical office from 2001 to 2003 by patients unique identifier. Socioeconomic cost included both direct cost and indirect cost: the direct cost was injury-related medical expenditure and the indirect cost included loss of productivity due to healthcare utilization and premature death. Results : The socioeconomic cost of injuries in Korea was approximately 1.9% of the GDP from 2001 to 2003. That is, 12.1 trillion KRW(Korean Won) in 2001, 12.3 trillion KRW in 2002, and 13.7 trillion KRW in 2003. In 2003, direct medical costs were 24.6%(3.4 trillion KRW), the costs for loss of productivity by healthcare utilization were 13.0%(1.8 trillion KRW), and the costs for loss of productivity by premature death were 62.4%(8.6 trillion KRW). Conclusions : In this study, the socioeconomic cost of injuries in Korea between 2001 and 2003 was estimated by using not only health insurance claims data, but also automobile insurance, IACI claims and mortality data. We conclude that social efforts are required to reduce the socioeconomic cost of injuries in Korea, which represented approximately 1.9% of the GDP for the time period specified.