• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.587-593
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• 2018

증후군감시는 감염병 발생 초기에 나타날 수 있는 임상적 증상 발생동향을 감시하여 감염병의 발생을 가능한 조기에 인지하기 위해 고안된 감시체계이다. 한국 질병관리본부에서는 응급실 기반의 증후군감시시스템을 개발하였으며, 현 시스템의 기능을 강화하고자 국외 증후군감시 조기경보시스템에 관한 문헌조사를 하였다. 본 논문에서는 국외 증후군감시 조기경보시스템 운영현황을 설명, 비교하여 한국의 응급실 기반 증후군감시를 위한 조기경보시스템의 개선에 필요한 근거자료를 마련하였다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.219-224
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• 2008

Due to heightened concerns regarding possible bioterrorist attacks, the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention introduced syndromic surveillance systems, which have been run by emergency departments in hospitals throughout Korea since 2002. These systems are designed to identify illness clusters before diagnoses are confirmed and reported to public health agencies, to mobilize a rapid response, and thereby to reduce morbidity and mortality. The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention performed drop-in syndromic surveillance successfully during the World Cup Football Games in 2002, the Universiad games in 2004, and the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in 2005. In addition, sustainable syndromic surveillance system involving the collaborative efforts of 125 sentinel hospitals has been in operation nationwide since 2002. Because active data collection can bias decisions a physician makes, there is a need to generate an automatic and passive data collection system. Therefore, the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention plans to establish computerized automatic data collection systems in the near future. These systems will be used not only fur the early detection of bioterrorism but also for more effective public health responses to disease.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.214-218
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• 2008

Bioterrorism events have worldwide impacts, not only in terms of security and public health policy, but also in other related sectors. Many countries, including Korea, have set up new administrative and operational structures and adapted their preparedness and response plans in order to deal with new kinds of threats. Korea has dual surveillance systems for the early detection of bioterrorism. The first is syndromic surveillance that typically monitors non-specific clinical information that may indicate possible bioterrorism-associated diseases before specific diagnoses are made. The other is infectious disease specialist network that diagnoses and responds to specific illnesses caused by intentional release of biologic agents. Infectious disease physicians, clinical microbiologists, and infection control professionals play critical and complementary roles in these networks. Infectious disease specialists should develop practical and realistic response plans for their institutions in partnership with local and state health departments, in preparation for a real or suspected bioterrorism attack.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.73-89
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• 2005

The disaster preparedness system in Korea has been developed in spite of many obstacles, but there are still many problems for response to newly emerging terrorisms due to the existing problems of disaster response system. The newly emerging terrorism in 21th century like biochemical terrorism has made us focus on terrorism preparedness, but health and medical aspect of terrorism has been overlooked. The health disaster system is more necessary for 21th terrorism response as well as the disaster engineering, economic and administrative aspects. The disaster preparedness system for bioterrorism has been developed by Ministry of Health with syndromic surveillance system and no case has been found in Korea yet and the resources of personnel and equipment as decontamination system in medical facilities are lacking in case of chemical terrorism. So through the multiple access method reflecting the risk factors in real terrorism field and human based health disaster concept, the disaster preparedness and response system to make up for the weak point should be suggested.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.402-410
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• 2018

Background: Monitoring appropriate medication categories can provide early warning of certain disease outbreaks. This study aimed to present a methodology for selecting and monitoring medications relevant to the surveillance of acute respiratory tract infections, such as influenza. Methods: To estimate correlations between acute febrile respiratory tract infection and some medication categories, the cross-correlation coefficient (CCC) was used and established. Two databases were used: real-time prescription trend of antivirals, anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics using Drug Utilization Review Program between 2012 and 2015 and physicians' number of encounters with acute febrile respiratory tract infections such as influenza outbreaks using the national level health insurance claims data. The seasonality was also evaluated using the CCC. Results: After selecting six candidate diseases that require extensive monitoring, influenza with highly specific medical treatment according to the health insurance claims data and its medications were chosen as final candidates based on a data-driven approach. Antiviral medications and influenza were significantly correlated. Conclusion: An annual correlation was observed between influenza and antiviral medications, anti-inflammatory drugs. Suitable models should be established for syndromic surveillance of influenza.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2022

The destructive impact of contagious diseases outbreaks on all life facets necessitates developing effective solutions to control these diseases outbreaks. This research proposes an end-to-end, data-driven platform which consists of multiple modules that are working in harmony to achieve a concrete goal: early detection of contagious diseases outbreaks (i.e., epidemic diseases detection). Achieving that goal enables decision makers and people in power to act promptly, resulting in robust prevention management of contagious diseases. It must be clear that the goal of this proposed platform is not to predict or forecast the spread of contagious diseases, rather, its goal is to promptly detect contagious diseases outbreaks as they happen. The front end of the proposed platform is a web-based dashboard that visualizes diseases outbreaks in real-time on a real map. These outbreaks are detected via another component of the platform which utilizes data mining techniques and algorithms on gathered datasets. Those gathered datasets are managed by yet another component. Specifically, a mobile application will be the main source of data to the platform. Being a vital component of the platform, the datasets are managed by a DBMS that is specifically tailored for this platform. Preliminary results are presented to showcase the performance of a prototype of the proposed platform.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.442-454
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• 2017

생물테러에 사용되는 생물무기는 세균과 바이러스, 리켓치아, 곰팡이 등을 가공하여 만들어지며, 화학작용제, 방사능작용제와 함께 대량살상무기(Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD)로 분류되어진다. 생물무기는 다른 대량살상무기들에 비하여 개발과 생산의 용이성, 저렴한 비용, 은닉살포가 가능하다는 운용상 이점들이 존재한다. 본 논문은 생물무기 개발이 이루어진 역사와 현존하는 생물학적 위협에 대해 분석하고, 생물작용제의 물리적 특성과 인체내 감염기작을 기초로 생물무기 공격으로 인한 사회적 영향을 예측하였다. 스벨드롭스크 탄저균유출사고, 아랄스크 두창발생, 2001년 탄저테러 등 생물무기관련 역사적 사례들에서 사고 인지형태, 작용제 오염확산범위와 피해자의 질병특성을 분석한 결과, 생물테러는 공격 즉시 인지가 어렵고, 광범위한 확산이 가능하여 대규모 노출자를 발생시키며, 호흡기관련 중증질환을 일으켜 보건 의료기관에 막대한 부담을 일으킬 것이라는 사실을 발견하였다. 이를 토대로 생물테러에 효과적으로 대응하기 위해서 요구되는 보건대응역량을 제시하였다. 효과적인 증후군감시체계 및 관련질병 보고체계를 운영하여 신속히 이상징후를 파악해야하며, 실험실진단체계를 통해 병원체의 확진을 실시하여야한다. 또한 보건기관은 역학조사 시 수사기관과의 공조를 통해 잠재적노출자를 명확히 규명하여야 하며, 마지막으로 인적 물적 자원을 효율적으로 운용하여 집단예방조치가 효과적으로 이루어지도록 되어야할 것이다. 이러한 보건대응역량을 지속적으로 강화한다면 생물테러위협에 성공적으로 대응할 수 있을 것이다.