1.The budget for hospitals of Vietnam
Journal of Vietnamese Medicine 2001;267(12):1-6
There were some urgent problems in hospitals of Viet nam, especially the lack of budget and the poor materials, equipment and infrastucture. This study aimed to review some precondition and introduce some necessary solutions which include 1, change of hospitals with the subcidize mechanism to the health services 2, the hospital should be considered as an economy facility 3, change of National hospitals to the joint stock company for the health services.
Hospitals
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Budgets
2.A study on establishing a technical safety assessment system for the Korean telemedicine system.
Hee Joo LEE ; Choi NAM ; Jang Ho YUN ; Jun Seob YOON ; Ho Jin LEE ; Jin Suk KIM ; Seok Yeong KIM ; Jae Wook CHOI ; Kyung Ho LEE
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2015;58(12):1159-1170
Telemedicine is a critical infrastructure that directly affects people's lives. In this vein, the government announcement of the introduction of a telemedicine service has caused controversy among the government and medical institutions over the safety of the service. Before the introduction of the telemedicine service, its technical safety and effectiveness should be validated. The telemedicine system should be supported by proper policies to ensure a secure, continuous service. To this end, we have conducted research to derive the security requirements from domestic and foreign standards and laws relating to telemedicine and information security. Based on the derived requirements, we have developed a security standard for telemedicine that facilitates the objective assessment of the security of the telemedicine service. Furthermore, we have analyzed the vulnerabilities of telemedicine devices through penetration tests. Finally, using a risk analysis method, we have created risk scenarios that might occur in the provision of telemedicine services, and have calculated risk levels and expected loss for each scenario. We expect that the results of this research will be a basis for ensuring a sufficient budget and staff for the safety of telemedicine, and for establishing relevant policies.
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Jurisprudence
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Telemedicine*
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Veins
3.An Analysis on the Determinants of Efficiency of the Pharmaceutical Firms using Stochastic Frontier Analysis.
Health Policy and Management 2015;25(2):97-106
BACKGROUND & METHODS: The purpose of this research is to estimate the efficiency of the pharmaceutical firms and the determinants of their efficiency. Stochastic frontier analysis(SFA) and panel study are applied to the data of 60 domestic pharmaceutical firms from 2006 to 2012. RESULTS & CONCLUSION: First, the result of the stochastic frontier analysis shows that overall efficiency of the pharmaceutical firms is increasing as time goes by. However, if firms are classified by the scale, the larger firms show more efficiency and if classified by the degree of innovativeness, the innovative firms show more efficiency compared to the non-innovative firms. This evidences show that the scale and R&D investment have significant relationships with the efficiency of the pharmaceutical firms. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the national level of investment for the fundamental researches to vitalize R&D of the new drugs. Second, the result of estimation of the determinants of efficiency shows that the firms with larger sales promotion expenses and entertainment expenses have less efficiency compared to the other firms. This can be explained by the structural characteristics of the small generic pharmaceutical firms. Therefore, the government had better make the pharmaceutical firms to reduce sales promotion and entertainment expenses and increase R&D expenses by introducing systems such as global budgeting system on medicine or reference pricing system.
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Commerce
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Investments
4.Investigation of Hansen's disease patient's registration system.
Korean Leprosy Bulletin 2006;39(1):9-36
Recently it is becoming socially controversy about Hansen's disease patient's registration system that was considered as the reasonable and best system in the past. Medically, it is naturally to make the patient's medical record(medial registration), including patient's detail profile, patient's family history, or other informations acquired form medical examination process for the clinical judgement and the best result of treatment. And that is necessary to government authorities that made the budget to provide the free medical and social service to Hansen's disease patients, but that is worry about the drain of personal information and the use of basic data to control. Therefore, we have to need to do enough examination between patient with leprologist, sociologist, government authorities and patients about this and advance this by reasonable system to everybody.
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Humans
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Leprosy*
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Social Work
5.Principles for Creation of PBL problems.
Dong Heon KIM ; Jin Sup JUNG ; Dae Soo JUNG
Korean Journal of Medical Education 1999;11(1):17-23
A key factor in successful application of PBL is creation of good problems. Unfortunately, published collections of problems do not exist for many subjects. Consequently, instructors usually write their own problems and case studies if they want to use problem-based instruction. In this study we proposed principles for creation of PBL problems and presented its example. If effective problems suitable to educational goals are engaged, PBL can be introduced to the first grade medical students who do not have any knowlege about medicine. However, additional factors such as number of faculties and students, budget, availability of learning materials also affect successful implementation of PBL.
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Humans
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Learning
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Students, Medical
6.Disadvantages of publishing biomedical research articles in English for non-native speakers of English.
Epidemiology and Health 2015;37(1):e2015021-
OBJECTIVES: English has become the most frequently used language for scientific communication in the biomedical field. Therefore, scholars from all over the world try to publish their findings in English. This trend has a number of advantages, along with several disadvantages. METHODS: In the current article, the most important disadvantages of publishing biomedical research articles in English for non-native speakers of English are reviewed. RESULTS: The most important disadvantages of publishing biomedical research articles in English for non-native speakers may include: Overlooking, either unintentionally or even deliberately, the most important local health problems; failure to carry out groundbreaking research due to limited medical research budgets; violating generally accepted codes of publication ethics and committing research misconduct and publications in open-access scam/predatory journals rather than prestigious journals. CONCLUSIONS: The above mentioned disadvantages could eventually result in academic establishments becoming irresponsible or, even worse, corrupt. In order to avoid this, scientists, scientific organizations, academic institutions, and scientific associations all over the world should design and implement a wider range of collaborative and comprehensive plans.
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Ethics
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Publications
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Scientific Misconduct
7.Control of Industrial Safety Based on Dynamic Characteristics of a Safety Budget-Industrial Accident Rate Model in Republic of Korea.
Gi Heung CHOI ; Byoung Gook LOH
Safety and Health at Work 2017;8(2):189-197
BACKGROUND: Despite the recent efforts to prevent industrial accidents in the Republic of Korea, the industrial accident rate has not improved much. Industrial safety policies and safety management are also known to be inefficient. This study focused on dynamic characteristics of industrial safety systems and their effects on safety performance in the Republic of Korea. Such dynamic characteristics are particularly important for restructuring of the industrial safety system. METHODS: The effects of damping and elastic characteristics of the industrial safety system model on safety performance were examined and feedback control performance was explained in view of cost and benefit. The implications on safety policies of restructuring the industrial safety system were also explored. RESULTS: A strong correlation between the safety budget and the industrial accident rate enabled modeling of an industrial safety system with these variables as the input and the output, respectively. A more effective and efficient industrial safety system could be realized by having weaker elastic characteristics and stronger damping characteristics in it. A substantial decrease in total social cost is expected as the industrial safety system is restructured accordingly. CONCLUSION: A simple feedback control with proportional–integral action is effective in prevention of industrial accidents. Securing a lower level of elastic industrial accident-driving energy appears to have dominant effects on the control performance compared with the damping effort to dissipate such energy. More attention needs to be directed towards physical and social feedbacks that have prolonged cumulative effects. Suggestions for further improvement of the safety system including physical and social feedbacks are also made.
Accidents, Occupational
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Budgets
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Republic of Korea*
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Safety Management
8.Development of the Medicine Electronic Order System Using Web EDT.
JaeKeun KONG ; Seokmin YOON ; Insik KIM ; Soonkey JUNG
Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2001;7(2):17-23
The purpose of this study is to develop medicine electronic order system to improve medicine logistics using information and communication technologies. The Electronic Order System of medicine using Web EDJ adopted the Internet and Web-based technologies which grows so fast lately, enables medical institutions to place an order with the pharmaceutical companies for various pharmacy and vendors to receive an order form in electronical ways and to deliver the products. It designed that every application programs installed and run at web-server, so if personal computers located in user facilities have only web-browser, user can order medicines wherever Internet is available. We can expect two effects from this system. First, it reduces cost and budget because of substituting electronical ordering the pharmacy for telephoning or faxing. Secondly, in technical side, it utilized a new kind of concept, Internet-based EDJ, not VAN(Value Added Network) EDI using the existent closed network.
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Commerce
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Internet
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Microcomputers
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Organization and Administration
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Pharmacy
9.Estimation of Optimal Educational Cost per Medical Student.
Korean Journal of Medical Education 2009;21(3):299-305
PURPOSE: This study aims to estimate the optimal educational cost per medical student. METHODS: A private medical college in Seoul was targeted by the study, and its 2006 learning environment and data from the 2003~2006 budget and settlement were carefully analyzed. Through interviews with 3 medical professors and 2 experts in the economics of education, the study attempted to establish the educational cost estimation model, which yields an empirically computed estimate of the optimal cost per student in medical college. RESULTS: The estimation model was based primarily upon the educational cost which consisted of direct educational costs (47.25%), support costs (36.44%), fixed asset purchases (11.18%) and costs for student affairs (5.14%). These results indicate that the optimal cost per student is approximately 20,367,000 won each semester; thus, training a doctor costs 162,936,000 won over 4 years. Consequently, we inferred that the tuition levels of a local medical college or professional medical graduate school cover one quarter or one-half of the per- student cost. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study do not necessarily imply an increase in medical college tuition; the estimation of the per-student cost for training to be a doctor is one matter, and the issue of who should bear this burden is another. For further study, we should consider the college type and its location for general application of the estimation method, in addition to living expenses and opportunity costs.
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Humans
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Learning
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Students, Medical
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Ursidae
10.The Effect of Push, Pull, and Push-Pull Interactive Factors for Internationalization of Contract Foodservice Management Company.
The Korean Journal of Nutrition 2009;42(4):386-396
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of push, pull and push-pull interactive factors for CFMC (Contract Foodservice Management Company)'s internationalization. The study was a quantitative study part in mixed methods (QUAL --> quan) which was mainly qualitative study and quantitative study. Mail survey was carried out for quantitative study. For study subjects, 1,281 persons who completed 'Food Service Management Professional Program' of 'Y' University were selected as a population because the program was mainly for CFMC's workers. The analysis methods used in this study were frequency analysis, factor analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis with SPSS 17.0. Push factors had the saturation in domestic market and the manager's purpose (fac.1) and the investment for internationalization (fac.2). Pull factors had the company's external environment for internationalization (fac.3) and the global network and spread of culture (fac.4). Push-pull interactive factors had the information about foreign market (fac.5), the procedure and budget of overseas expansion (fac.6) and the national network and size of domestic market (fac.7). Internal dynamics factors had the deterrents for internationalization (fac.8) and the enablers for internationalization (fac.9). The result showed that the company's external environment in pull factors had positive effects on the deterrents for internationalization. The global network and the spread of culture had positive effects on the enablers for internationalization. The information about foreign market in push-pull interactive factors had positive effects on the deterrents and enablers for internationalization. The national network and the size of domestic market had positive effects on the enablers for internationalization. The deterrents and enablers for internationalization had positive effects on the level of internationalization, and the deterrents had more effects on the level of internationalization than the enablers did (beta= .492 > .177).
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Contracts
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Humans
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Investments
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Postal Service