본 연구는 1999년 장기이식을 전제로 뇌사를 법적으로 인정하는 ‘장기등이식에 관한법률’이 제정되어 장기이식을 위한 법적 기반은 마련되었으나, 법 제정 이후 뇌사자의 장기기증은 오히려 감소되고 있고 있는 시점에서 일반국민의 장기기증에 대한 태도와 이에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하여, 그 결과를 바탕으로 향후 장기기증 활성화를 위한 기초 자료를 제공하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 본 연구는 한국보건사회연구원에서 실시된 ‘뇌사 및 장기이식에 대한 여론조사’ 자료를 이용하였으며, 본 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 뇌사의 개념에 대한 지식 정도, 뇌사를 사망으로 받아들이는 뇌사 수용도, 조사대상자 본인의 장기기증 의사, 조사대상자 가족의 장기기증 의사에서 성별, 연령, 결혼상태, 교육수준, 직업, 월평균 가구소득 등 인구학적·사회경제적 변수에 따른 집단간 차이를 나타내고 있었다. 둘째, 경제적 능력에 따른 장기이식수술 의사의 경우, 장기이식 수술 의사가 있음을 응답한 사람의 대부분은 장기이식 수술비용 부담 능력이 없었다. 셋째, 조사대상자 본인 및 조사대상자 가족의 장기기증 의사에 대한 로지스틱 회귀분석(logistic regression) 결과, 조사대상자 본인의 장기기증 의사에 영향을 미치는 변수로는 결혼상태, 가족의 장기기증 의사, 사후 사체훼손에 대한 거부감, 장기이식술에 대한 인식으로 나타났고, 조사대상자 가족이 뇌사상태일 경우 가족의 장기기증 의사에 영향을 미치는 요인으로는 가구소득, 뇌사에 대한 지식, 뇌사 수용도, 장기이식술의 필요성, 본인의 장기기증 의사로 나타났다. 우리나라는 뇌사인정에 대한 공감대가 형성되지 않고 있고, 전통적인 유교사상의 영향, 사체훼손에 대한 두려움, 가족간의 장기기증에 대해서는 관대하나 타인에 대한 장기기증에 소극적인 가족 중심적인 사고방식 등 우리나라 고유의 문화적·윤리적 영향을 많이 받고 있는 것으로 생각된다. 때문에 우리나라에서 장기기증을 활성화시키기 위해서는 장기기증에 대한 일반인들의 이해 부족을 줄여 사회적으로 공감대를 형성하기 위한 노력을 해나가야 할 것이며, 특히 우리나라의 고유의 문화적·윤리적 환경 속에서 적절한 장기기증 활성화 방안을 찾아야 할 것이다.;This study aims to analyze public attitudes toward organ donation and several relevant factors in a current situation where, despite the 1999 legislation of Organ Transplantation Law, the number of brain-dead donors is decreasing. This study is based on “A Survey on Public Opinion on Brain Death and Organ Transplantation” conducted in 2002 by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. The subject group consists of 1,016 people who have been selected through systematic sampling from a group of 4,000 adult men and women over the age 20 by trained telephone survey workers between July 8, 2002 to July 15, 2002. This study utilizes SAS for data analysis and chi-square test and logistic regression analysis to understand what effects demographic and socioeconomic factors have on peoples attitudes toward organ donation. Some of the main findings of this study are as follows. First, there were differences in people’s knowledge of the concept of brain death, acceptance of brain death, the respondent’s intention of organ donation, and the respondent's intention of family members’ organ donation between demographic and socioeconomic groups. Second, as to the respondent’s－to have an organ transplant operation, most of those who responded as having willingness to receive an organ donation were those without the ability to pay for the cost of organ transplant operation. Third, affecting variables to the respondent's intention of organ donation were marital status, respondent's intention of family members’ organ donation, traditional view of human body, awareness of organ transplantation. Affecting variables to the respondent's intention of family members' organ donation were monthly income level, knowledge of the concept of brain death, reluctance to accept brain death, awareness of organ transplantation, and the respondent's intention of organ donation. There are some cultural differences between Korea and West, which may explain the reluctance to donate organs. So, it is not enough that the system and technology of organ transplantation have been imported, a cultural and ethical background transplant ins also needed in Korea. From these results, this study draws several policy suggestions. First, as seen from the case of such developed countries as Spain and the US, there is a need for government-initiated publicity and education efforts to change people’s attitudes toward brain death and organ transplantation. Second, there is a need for institutional means to prioritize the individual’s consent to organ donation over his or her family members refusal of it. Also, the government should make effort to reduce the patient’s cost of organ transplantation and thus to achieve national equity in the distribution of organs.
본 연구는 남아선호 의식과 행위간 관계를 설정하고, 결정요인을 분석함으로써 출생성비 불균형의 원인을 규명하고자 하였다. 『2000년도 전국 출산력 및 가족보건실태조사』를 이용한 로지스틱 분석결과, 자녀수와 남아수, 최장거주지, 종교, 문화적 요인으로 아들의 호주상속관에 대한 가치관, 지역환경요인으로 영남권과 중부권이 남아선호 의식과 행위간 관계에 중요한 영향을 미치고 있다. 연령, 가구유형, 부인 및 남편의 교육정도, 남편의 종교, 취업상태, 가구소득, 호남권은 통계적으로 무의미하였다. 도시부인의 경우 남아를 선호하지 않으며 태아성검사도 수용하지 않는 경향이 높고, 남아를 선호하면 태아성검사를 수용하는 경향이 높았다. 기독교에 비해 무종교부인이 남아를 선호하지 않는 경우 태아성검사를 수용하지 않으나, 남아를 선호한 경우에는 수용하지 않은 경향이 더 낮았다. 아들의 호주상속에 대한 가치관의 약화는 남아선호는 물론 태아성검사 수용을 억제하는 방향으로 영향을 미치고 있다. 영남지역 부인은 지역환경의 영향으로 남아선호 여부와 관계없이 태아성검사를 수용하는 경향이 높았다. 중부권도 그 정도는 낮으나, 유사한 경향을 보였다. 분석결과를 토대로 다음과 같은 시사점을 도출할 수 있다. 첫째, 출생성비 불균형관련 학술적 연구나 정책적 노력은 남아선호도와 함께 남아출산수단의 수용태도 및 결정요인에 중점을 둘 필요가 있다. 둘째, 농촌부인에 대한 집중적인 홍보가 필요한 한편, 도시부인의 남아선호가 남아출산수단의 수용으로 귀결되므로, 도시여성의 남아선호관을 불식시키는 노력도 중요하다. 호주상속관련 법·제도는 물론 남녀평등 구현을 위한 사회·경제적 개혁이 중요하다. 셋째, 영남지역의 사회문화적 환경은 부인의 남아선호뿐만 아니라 태아성검사 수용을 증가시키는 역할을 하고 있다. 이와 관련, 남편, 노부모(시부모) 등에 대한 집중적인 홍보가 중요하다. 부인 및 가족의 남아를 얻기 위한 욕구실현을 좌절시키기 위해 의료기관을 계몽하는 한편, 불법적 의료시술 의사를 엄격히 처벌한다. 불법시술의 감시·적발을 위해 시민단체 등을 적극 활용한다.;The current study aims to establish the relationship between son preference and related practices, and, by analyzing the determinants thereof based on logistic analysis of the data from 2000 National Fertility and Family Health Survey, to identify the causes of the distorted sex ratio at birth in Korea. Some of the major findings are as follows. Among urban married women, those who do not hold son preference are not likely to make use of fetal sex screening while those who do had a high tendency to make use of fetal sex screening. In the case of urban married women without son preference, non-religious women as compared with Christian women are found to be less likely to make use of fetal sex screening. The waning of the social values that excludes women from succeeding a family headship is found to exert some influence on married women to curb their desire for fetal sex screening as well as their son preference. Married women in Youngnam region (the southeastern area of Korea), whether or not holding son preference themselves, generally had a high tendency to make use of fetal sex screening in order to have a son-selective childbirth because of its prevailing background ethos favoring sons. The following implications can be drawn from the results of the study. First, academic researches and policy efforts to redress the unbalanced sex rate at birth need to pay particular heed to peoples’ son-selective reproductive behaviors and related determinants. Second, there is a need for publicity efforts intensively targeting rural married women. Also, since son preference among urban married women is likely to lead them adopt son-selective childbirth strategies, substantial effort is required to be made with a view to reducing, and gradually eliminating, their son-preferential attitudes. To do this would involve taking prudent socioeconomic reform measures conducive to realizing equality between men and women. Also, legal reform measures must be taken against the current institutions of family headship system. Third, the socio-cultural climate of Youngnam region tends to cultivate and further son- preference sentiment among married women and therefore foster their tendency to make use of fetal sex screening. In this regard, intensive publicity efforts are required in order to change the son-preference attitude of husbands and parents (parents-in-law in particular). Forth, to foil the attempts of married women and their families to choose sex-selective abortions in favor of a son, there must be public efforts to inculcate medical institutions with the importance of redressing the current unbalanced sex ratio at birth. Such efforts must be combined with severe sanctions against illegal medical surgeries associated with sex-selective childbirths. In addition, NGO monitoring of, and reporting on, such illegal practices must be encouraged.
최근 자원으로서의 시간에 대한 개인의 인식은 인간의 생활을 영위하는 기초적 단위로서 시간의 가치활용도를 높이고 인간관계의 맥락을 심화시키며, 그들의 「삶의 질」을 극대화하는 핵심적인 가치를 부여하는데 초점을 맞추고 있다. 그렇지만 어느 누구에게나 정해져 있는 시간의 양(quantity)을 어떻게 효율적으로 사용하고, 필요한 분야 및 항목에 얼마나 배분하는가에 따라 시간의 질(quality)을 증대시킬 수 있다. 본 연구는 1999년 통계청에서 처음으로 실시한 자료를 심층 분석하는 것이다. 연구목적은 기혼여성의 혼인상태 및 사회경제적 특성에 따라 생활시간 배분이 어떻게 상이한지를 분석하고 문제점을 찾으며, 아울러 효율적 시간활용방안을 제시하고 정책적 지원방안도 함께 모색하는데 있다. 주요 결과는 우리나라 기혼여성의 생활시간 배분은 혼인상태에 따라 현저한 차이가 있었다는 점이다. 아울러 기혼여성의 경제활동여부도 생활시간 배분에 영향을 크게 미치고 있었다. 특히 이혼부인은 생계유지를 위하여 경제활동에 적극 참여해야 하기 때문에 적절한 시간배분에 문제점을 노출시키고 있었다. 이와 같은 일련의 분석연구는 우리나라 부인의 혼인상태, 연령, 경제활동참여 및 직업유형 등의 특성에 따라 생활방식과 삶의 질을 파악하고, 시간자원을 효율적으로 활용하는 데 필요한 기초자료로 제공될 수 있을 것이며, 궁극적으로 여성의 「삶의 질」을 향상시키는 데 기여할 것으로 사료된다.;Individual's view of time as resource has recently been geared toward making the best use of time as the basic unit of human life in order to deepen the context of interpersonal relationships and maximize quality of life. The quality of one's time can be enhanced depending on how efficiently one allocate, manage, and spend the quantity of time. The present study aims to conduct an in depth examination of the first time-allocation survey carried out in Korea by the National Statistical Office in 1999 and analyze differences and identify problems in time allocation among married women according to their marital status and socioeconomic characteristics. Along the way, strategic plans and policy implications are suggested for improving the efficiency of time allocation. Major findings can be summarized as follows. Patterns of time allocation among married women in Korea vary widely depending on their marital status. The largest portion of their time in general is spent on ‘self-care’ which includes time allocated for sleep. However, divorced women are found to spend the next largest portion of their time on work, while widowed women and women with spouse spend the second largest portion their time on 'leisure and friends/acquaintances'. Divorced women are found to spend significantly more time at work than widowed women and women with spouse do. This is presumably a result stemming from the fact that divorced women, unlike women with spouse present, are highly responsible for household livelihood not only because they do not have income-earning husbands, but also because they are generally younger than their widowed counterparts and therefore are less likely to have income-earning children. Divorced and widowed women in their thirties/forties as compared with other groups are found to spend much more time on work. This may be not only because they unlike women with spouse present－must fulfill their responsibilities and role as the main breadwinner for the family, but also because they are more likely to have school-aged children and are responsible for earning money for bringing up and educating them. Unemployed women, regardless of their marital status, are found to spend more time on household and family care than employed women. This implies that there is an accentuated policy need for paying particular heed to social support toward helping divorced women balance their work and family lives. Koreans in general－irrespective of socio-demographic factors such as gender, age, educational level, marital status, and employment status－are found to devote little time to voluntary activities, even during weekends or holidays. Non-working women and elderly people, in particular, spend very limited amount of time participating in voluntary activities despite having relatively much spare time. Divorced and widowed women as compared to women with spouse are found to suffer from lack of time to care for their preschool children due to other obligations. This calls for more policy attention to be placed on the protection of physical and emotional health of children in these female-headed households. For instance, the availability/accessibility of desired services should be ensured through the expansion of home-helper programs, educare centers, and financial aid programs. Based on these results, the following time management strategies and policy options can be considered. First, more time needs to be allocated, especially in the case of married non-working women, to voluntary activities. This can be made possible by reducing time spent on friends/acquaintances, leisure activities, and self-care. Second, it is hard for many divorced and widowed women to allocate much time to household and family care because they are responsible for engaging in income-earning activities. Therefore, social support should be provided to enhance the availability and accessibility of home-helper programs and daycare services. Third, cultural/leisure programs should be developed for working married women who generally have little or no time for leisure and interpersonal relationships. Forth, the longstanding inequalities in gender roles must be redressed. To do this would require men to escape from their traditional ‘male gender role’ and assume an increased, if not equal, role in household tasks and family care.