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  • Purpose; The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of the promotion of understanding sex related stories for the prevention of sexual violence on the children of age 5. The subjects were 58 children of age 5(19 children of experimental group, 20 children of comparison group, and 19 children of control group) in the city of P. The experimental group performed the music drama activity using the picture books for sex education for 36 times. The comparison group conducted the sex education picture book activities used in the experiment group. The control group did not engage in sexual violence prevention activities and instead conducted daily life subject centric activities at the national level. Data analysis was conducted by t-test and ANCOVA using the SPSS 21.0 program. The results of the research yielded that the experimental group showed a better understanding of the sex related story than the comparison group and the control group, and the comparison group also showed a statistically significant difference in understanding the sex related story than the control group. These results showed that the promotion of comprehension of sex related stories was effective in preventing sexual violence for children.
    Keyword:Sexual Violence, Music Drama, Sex Education Picture Books, Sexual Violence Prevention, Story Comprehension
  • Various efforts are needed in preparation for the predictable Korea unification as a wind of peace blown over the Korean Peninsula brought about the long-terminated exchange between South Korea and North Korea. As bilateral relationship and exchanges are actively done, systematic and specific system needs to be established to manage highly uncertain disasters more efficiently. It is particularly important to establish the comprehensive and integrated disaster management operation system for the unified peninsula after the declaration of the end of war as bilateral relations are abruptly improved and inter-Korean exchange and cooperation continues. This study aims to elevate the tolerance in response to the unification and propose improvements of disaster safety system in the course of cooperation between the government and private institutions. Disaster management system needs to be reformed considering legalization related with research results, disaster term standardization, manual generalization, and regional characterization. It would be desirable to build up disaster management and response system starting from regions such as boundary areas, economic cooperation areas, and exchange areas not by setting a diverse range of disasters and selecting areas in hope of proper cooperation of the further inter-Korean disaster management system.
    Keyword:Korean Peninsula, Disaster Management System, Disaster Management, Unification, Disaster Cooperation
  • Purpose; The purpose of this study proposes training steps in preparation of multiple earthquakes disasters and how to plan training situation scenarios reflecting regional characteristics in response to frequent occurrence of earthquakes in Korea these days. There was a series of earthquakes with the subsequent aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 in Kyung-ju and Pohang in Korea in 2016 and2017, which resulted in a lot of damages. The earthquake disaster is what Korea has ever never experienced and we are defenseless for response training by the government institutions and public entities as well as the technologies for preparing disaster However, in the wake of the earthquake in 2016, the importance of training for earthquake has been appreciated and a host of multiple earthquake disaster drills has been conducted in the Safety Korea Training under the control of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security. However, due to lack of understanding on earthquake disasters and lack of experiences of earthquake disaster drills, the drills still remains unpractical. In particular, more jobs are required to establish scenarios explaining from preparation to training. This study presents the 10 steps of PDCA CYCLE for multiple earthquake disaster training. In preparing the drills, the study suggests training for the response situation and making improvements to update the manual for better next drills over time. Earthquake disaster is getting worse through the complicated and continuous situations over time. Considering these earthquake dis-aster characteristics, characteristics such as weather, time, and season are important variables in determining the response directions. In order for efficient drills reflecting local characteristics, a training situation scenario is needed to take the characteristics of the earthquake disaster, the current status of the region, the characteristics of the characteristics of the facilities into account so as to create a complex disaster situation in response to an earthquake. In this study, we propose a method to set weather, time, and seasonal characteristics and to estimate the damage situation reflecting the surrounding facilities and the affected area in order to create a situation scenario that can cope with over time accordingly. The situation scenario is presented as an example of the Ulsan metropolitan city located on the tip of Southeast Korea. All the examples are based on the damage situations and responding situations are provided in accordance with the Site Action Manual and the Earthquake Disaster Manuals kept by each organization. It is believed that the 10 steps for PDCA CYCLE training and the damaged situation scenario proposed in this study will be conducive to the trainers in charge of preparing for the complex earthquake disasters and simulation scenarios.
    Keyword:Disaster, Development, Earthquake, Training Scenario, Training Guide
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the nursing students’ problem solving skills, nurse image and leadership for patient safety by conduting a survey against nursing students of a university. A sample included 241 nursing students enrolled at a regional universitys nursing program during November 3 to 7, 2014. Data were analyzed using mean, t-test, ANOVA, correlation with SPSS 21.0. The mean scores turned out to be 3.36, 3.73, 3.68, for problem solving skills, nurse image and leadership. There were significant mean differences in problem solving skills according to application motivation and a school record. There were significant mean differences in the nurse image according to satisfaction with nursing as major and clinical training. There were significant mean differences in leadership according to application motivation, satisfaction with nursing as major and personality. Significant positive correlation among problem solving skills, nurse image and leadership were found. This findings indicate that in order to enhance problem solving skills for patients safety, it would be necessary to develop programs that account for factors related to improving the nursing students problem solving skills for the patient safety based on the results of this study.
    Keyword:Patient Safety, Problem Solving Skills, Nurse Image, Leadership, Nursing Student
  • The purpose of this study was to examine influenza vaccination based on the 2014-2017 local community health survey data for a region in an effort to seek ways of increasing influenza vaccination rates. The flu vaccination rates were higher among the people who were women, who were in their 70s and up, who were less educated, who were married(had no spouses), whose income levels were lower and who didn't engage in economic activity. Therefore in order to raise influenza vaccination rates, it seems necessary to make vaccination recommendations to more people to increase the rates of the younger generation and of the economically active population.
    Keyword:Influenza, Flu Vaccination, Subjective Health Status, Community, Vaccination Rates
  • The 2017 community health survey data were analyzed to investigate the practice levels of hand washing and cough etiquette that are of use for infectious diseases. The findings of the study were as follows: As for awareness of the prevention of infectious diseases by hand washing, the awareness levels of the urban residents were higher, and the practice levels of hand washing before meals over the past week were higher among the county residents. The practice levels of hand washing after the use of the restroom over the past week were higher in the urban residents, and the frequency of using soap or hand cleaners was higher in the urban residents as well. Concerning experience of hand-washing education and publicity, the urban residents had more experience. The younger respondents had more experience of receiving hand washing education, and the respondents whose income levels were higher had more hand-washing education experience. As to the practice levels of cough etiquette, the practice levels were higher when the income levels were higher. Therefore in order to raise the practice levels of hand washing and cough etiquette, sustained education should be provided in various manners, and the development of educational programs tailored to older people seems to be necessary.
    Keyword:Cough, Handwashing, Handwashing Education, Infections Disease, Prevention
  • Through analysis of operating system of crisis management manual in Korea, this study attempts to suggest the right direction for future improvement. First, it is necessary to simplify the preparation through accurate understanding of laws and regulations. In the meantime, given the Korean crisis management manual written too specifically, rather, there is too much in manual volume and there is not enough time to follow the manual sequentially in case of settlement disaster. At the time of the East Japan great earthquake disaster, they were accused of missing the Golden Time when they sequentially followed Japan's well‐written manuals. Therefore, it is desirable to make it simple and easy to understand through an accurate understanding of relevant laws and regulations. Second, it is necessary to clearly distinguish roles between institutions through practical exchanges and cooperation networks. Under the current laws, this redundant design leads to an ironic situation in which when the actual disaster occurs, leaving responsibilities of an agency to another occurs between the agencies. Therefore, manual design to enable clear division of roles among institutions to some degree through practical exchanges and cooperation will enable quicker disaster response. Third, it is necessary to build a highly effective manual based on a scenario. Although the current crisis management manual is well written, but when applied to settlement actual disaster, it is difficult to apply due to the difference between reality and theory. Therefore, in order to be practical or to increase the possibility of reality, based on the scenarios, it will be easier to apply the reality by coping with the virtual scenarios by disaster type. Fourth, it is necessary to conduct situational judgment exercises through training. In the currently available crisis management manuals in Korea, all institutions are unified in identifying the level of crisis alarms such as concern, attention, warning, and seriousness, each level has different responses and its collaboration is different. However, in case of actual disaster, it is difficult to collaborate because it shows difference in crisis alarm level by each department or each institution. There-fore, it is necessary to conduct self‐assessment exercises through scenario training. Fifth, there is an increasing need for preparing integrated manuals for complex disasters. Today, disasters do not simply end in one type of disaster, but multiply into multiple disasters. That is, when an earthquake occurs, the earthquake can lead to fire, collapse, environmental pollution, and even nuclear accident. As a result, the crisis management manual is a manual for one type of disaster, which makes it difficult to cope with a complex disaster. Therefore, the need for preparing integrated manuals considering complex disasters increases.
    Keyword:Korea, Disaster, Crisis Management Manual, Improvement Direction, Operating System
  • Agroforestry is a very important industry that provides people with food resources. However, the forestry households of South Korea are facing a crisis that will have critical impacts on the provision of food resources in the nation. This study set out to examine problems with the forestry households of the nation by looking into their current management and conducting an interview with forestry household managers. It also aimed to search for plans to overcome the issues faced by forestry households and promote the development of the forest industry. This study examined the current population of forestry households, the age of managers, the number of forestry household members, and the current income of forestry households as well as the age of forestry managers, the members of forestry households, and the income trends of the forestry industry and anticipated that the phenomena of forestry managers leaving the industry and forestry households shrinking would continue in the long run. An interview was conducted with 11 forestry household managers around the nation to examine the actual management of forestry households. They pointed out such major problems as difficulties with securing clients, issues with the gathering and storage of forest products, and challenges with product distribution and sales. Based on these findings, the study proposed the following measures to help the forestry households overcome their economic crisis in the nation: first, they should form a cooperative of forestry households to create an opportunity for the forest industry to evolve into a 6th industry; and secondly, the government should provide a variety of supportive programs to ensure the vitalization of distribution.
    Keyword:Korea Crisis, Forestry Household Crisis, Forestry Household Prevention Plan, Economic Crisis, Role of Government
  • Among the ways to improve the treatment of firefighters, firefighter retirement management is important, and to look at the previous studies, many results derived show that firefighters are worried about life after retirement because there is poor practice of retirement management due to lack of retirement management system. Thus, this study attempts to examine the retirement management system of public firefighters to improve the treatment for firefighters, and to investigate current problems and future improvement strategies. To improve the retirement management of Korean fire bodies, the following should be urgently improved. First, the public firefighter’s retirement management system should be settled. Currently, in the case of firefighting organizations, the regulations on retirement management are insufficient, and there is also a lack of legal and institutional arrangements for dedicated organizations, personnel and/or programs. Because of this, public firefighters are complaining about the inconvenience that they should do their own retirement management themselves. Since the retirement management system is so insufficient as compared to other private companies and general public officers and police officers, the legal system for firefighter retirement management should be provided first. Second, it is necessary to establish a special organization that specializes only in retirement management in the firefighting organization, and it is necessary to employ the appropriate personnel for the firefighting retirement management organization and operate various retirement management programs. Third, it is necessary to maintain a cooperative relationship with other organizations' retirement management systems, such as introducing private retirement management programs and attracting beneficial lectures, by benchmarking organizations that are currently performing well in retirement management such as private companies. This is because retirement management of firefighting organizations is at the basic stage, and it is considered that the linkage with other organizations will have a synergy effect. Lastly, firefighters have insufficient retirement management owing to the difficulty managing every single day without thinking about the future because they have difficulty in working conditions and environment. Therefore, if the firefighters' working environment and treatment are urgently improved, it is judged that there is room for mind enough to consider retirement management.
    Keyword:Retirement Management, Firefighters, Korea, Better Treatment, Retirement System
  • Chemical accidents continue to happen since the hydrofluoric acid leak in Gumi in 2012, and people are voicing their opinions to highlight the importance and need of a prevention and management system for chemical accidents. This study thus set out to review the risk management plan under the Chemicals Control Act in the nation and the cases of risk management planning(RMP) at the US Environmental Protection Agency, searching for measures to improve residents' scattering plans based on risk management plan of the South Korean government. In South Korea, businesses handling toxic chemicals should provide residents in neighboring areas with the information about such chemicals once a year to ensure their right to know. The method of providing the information is, however, dependent on the homepage of the concerned local government or the concerned business, which means there are limitations with the residents' perceiving the information. The Emergency Planning Community Right-to-Know Act(EPCRA) was enacted in the U.S.A. The EPA asks each state to form a local emergency planning committee(LEPC) whose members are appointed by 13 groups. EPCRA offers a chance for a third party to participate in risk management, which reflects the greater importance and weight on the education and participation of the public rather than the interventions based on the government's order and control. Local social groups, environment organizations, and labor groups can ask for the information about toxic industrial substances col-lectively. Based on the review results of plans for residents' scattering in the American risk management plan, the present study made a couple of proposals to improve the plan for residents' scattering in the risk management plan of South Korea. First, there is a need to form a consultative group to promote autonomous risk responses among civilians and encourage its activities. Secondly, there is a need to establish a mutual support system to guarantee residents' right to know and help them perform the duty of seeking information.
    Keyword:Chemical Disaster Prevention, RMP, Risk Management Plan, Residence Right’ to Know, Safe Chemical Act