2016, Vol.12, No.4

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

pISSN : 2466-1198 / eISSN : 2466-1201
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cemtp

It is critical to secure a cooperative response system among the departments and agencies in governments for effective disaster response. However, the disaster response system in Korea is departmentalized by disaster types and relevant organizations, and thus needs to be renovated as a function-based response system. We argue that the disaster response activity plan should be the best alternative for securing the cooperative system as it defines the roles and responsibilities for all related organizations and agencies. This plan is expected to facilitate and promote the capability and capacity for cooperative disaster response and recommended as a policy alternative for function-based cooperative disaster response system, based on a comparative analysis of disaster response systems between Korea and the US.

This study aims to explore the characteristics of large-scale disaster accidents using a historical approach, by assessing the main features of natural disasters in Korea by a heuristic method. We searched 360 large-scale disaster accidents in Korea occurred from 1945 to 2015 including 158 maritime accidents and 98 land transportation accidents. The results provide several important implications as follows. Firstly, most of accidents before 1960s were caused mainly by the lack of experience and management skills. Secondly, large-scale disasters increased dramatically along with economic growth and urbanization during the period from 1961 to 1980. Thirdly, it is notable that land transportation accidents decreased, while aircraft accidents increased during the period 1981 to 2000. Fourthly, the frequency of domestic large-scale disasters has been decreasing since 2000, whereas that of overseas large-scale disasters has been increasing.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the educational needs on health examination for nurse. A mixed method was applied, including three focus group interviews which were conducted in order to understand nurse's experience of health examination. The survey data were collected from 84 nurses working in six public health centers located in B City and analyzed with SPSS 22.0. Educational needs on health screening as perceived by nurse were classified into 5 categories such as understand of health screening, diagnosis of disease in adults, medical test and pathological physiology, screening result and nursing intervention, and radioactive imaging test and safety. Educational needs for nurse were scored high (3.35±.44), with the highest score on understanding of radiology followed by understanding of medical screening test. The findings of this study provide a useful basis as to which areas of education would assist nurses with counselling on health examination in nursing care settings.