PHWR Public Health Weekly Report

Vol.18 No.9, March 06, 2025 Article TypeQuickStatsSurveillance Reports

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  Development of Reporting Guidelines of Articles in the Public Health Weekly Report

  Soo Young Kim , Sukhyun Ryu , So Yeon Ryu , Sun Huh , Mina Ha , Bo Youl Choi , Wonyoung Jung

  Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(9): 399-429 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.9.1

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  Reporting guidelines can be defined as “checklists, or flow charts developed according to well-known methodology to use when reporting the research of a specific type of study design.” Reporting guidelines are known to be an important means of improving the quality and scientific rigor of academic journals. The purpose of this study was to develop reporting guidelines for the major manuscript types of the Public Health Weekly Report (PHWR): outbreak reports, survey reports, surveillance reports, policy notes, and recommendation reports. The development of reporting guidelines was carried out in the following order: committee formation, literature review, review of existing reporting guidelines, drafting, development of explanation and elaboration (E&E) papers, and external review. Through this process, G-CORE (Guideline for Community Outbreak Investigation REport), Reporting guideline checklists called G-SURE (Guideline for SUrvey REport), G-SIRE (Guideline for Surveillance REport), G-SCOPE (Guideline for Standardize Criteria Of Policy rEporting), and G-RECO (Guidelines for RECOmmendation reporting) were developed, and E&E papers for the corresponding reporting guidelines were also developed. Each reporting guideline includes a checklist of items to be reported in the title, abstract, summary, background, methods, results, discussion, and other information, and the E&E papers consist of commentary, explanation, and appropriate examples for each checklist. Policy means such as education, template creation, and monitoring will be needed so that these reporting guideline items can be properly implemented in submitted manuscripts, and it will be necessary to conduct an evaluation of the quality of reporting in the future.

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  Optimization of Radiation-shielding Wall Thickness and Evaluation of Attenuation Performance Due to Deterioration

  Ki-Yoon Lee , Kyeong-Hwan Jung , Jang-Oh Kim , Jong-Won Gil , You-Jeong Min , Cheol-Ha Baek

  Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(9): 430-443 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.9.2

  

  

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  In accordance with Article 37 of the Medical Service Act in the Republic of Korea, medical institutions must be equipped with radiation-shielding facilities to utilize radiation for diagnostic purposes. Radiation-shielding facilities use materials such as lead, concrete, and lead glass and are designed to shield against radiation and prevent harmful effects on the human body. Therefore, determining the appropriate thickness of radiation protection walls based on radiation intensity is crucial in these facilities. In this study, we employed Monte Carlo simulations to model a radiation protection wall constructed in a clinical setting and composed of three layers: concrete-lead-concrete. The optimal shielding thickness was calculated for this configuration. Furthermore, given that radiation shielding facilities can deteriorate over time owing to external factors, potentially reducing their shielding effectiveness, we evaluated the shielding efficiency under three hypothetical aging scenarios. This study aims to assess the optimal shielding thickness and the impact of aging on the shielding efficiency of radiationshielding walls.

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  Trends in the Prevalence Gap of Obesity (Self-reported) between Cities or Provinces, during 2015–2024

  Yoon-sil Ko

  Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(9): 444-445 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.9.3

  

  

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