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Evidence-based approaches are prominent on the national and international agendas for health policy and health promotion. Thus the purpose of this research is to find out the need of a mental health program for the community and create an organized and all-around mental health program using the evidence-based practice. The research was done as a descriptive study with 861 randomly chosen subjects living in Seo-gu, Busan. After analyzing the data, the highest need of the citizens was in mental health promotion education program for the children and youth, and suicide prevention program in adults and the elderly. Therefore it was possible to create programs according to the stages of the life cycle, such as depression management guide and stress control programs for the children and youth, suicide prevention education, gate-keeper education program, programs for the family of suicide for adults and visiting programs for the elderly of the community.

In order to identify the association between causes of accidents due to hazardous chemicals, clear and definite the key points of safety supervision, and improve the efficiency of security supervision, this study researches 150 accident investigation report as data source by data mining technology, A priori algorithm, and finds out the relationship between factors such as time, step, type, severity and cause. By analyzing the 8 valuable rules, it proposes 4 suggestions for improving key safety supervision, thus to promote the optimization of safety supervision strategy of hazardous chemicals.

Landslides are one of the major natural disasters in Nepal and responsible for loss of property and lives. Landslide hazard mapping is an important tool for disaster management. The landslide hazard maps provide information about landslide vulnerability condition of certain region, which is beneficial for the community in planning, mitigating, and avoiding the danger. Various methods of hazard assessment have been proposed and demonstrated in Nepal. The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for landslide hazard mapping has been increasing constantly in recent years in Nepal. In this study, GIS technology was applied to investigate zonation of the landslide hazards of the Pelakot VDC, Syagnja, Nepal. The Village Development Committee (VDC) is one of the susceptible areas to landslides in Syangja. In this particular area, several landslides were occurred. The method of landslide zonation used in this study was weighted overlay method. The causative factors include slope, landuse, geology, distance to drainage, distance to fault. The study of the area has been classified into five categories of relative landslide hazard namely, very low, low, moderate, and high. As a result, it can be concluded that 7% of this particular area has a high landslide hazard.

Purpose: This study, by providing the psychological support program to the adolescents who have witnessed traumatic events (drowning incidents), was attempted to determine the influence on the adolescents’ anxiety, hostility and post- traumatic stress. Methods: The design of this study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. There were 32 participants in the experimental group and 25 in the control group. Psychological Support Program was used as the experimental treatment from June 18 to July 16, 2015. The experimental group received psychological support program intervention 4 times. Data were analyzed using x2-test, independent t-test and paired t-test using the SPSS programs. Result: The post-value of the extent of anxiety, hostility, and post-traumatic stress, after carrying out the psychological support program in both experimental and control groups, was slightly more reduced than the prior-value, but didn't show a statistically significant difference between the two groups. Conclusion: In order for a continuous effects of the psychological programs for the adolescents who have witnessed traumatic events, should not just end up with an application of the short-term program, but should do a long-term follow-up studies considering the avoidance of adolescents’ self-expressions.

This study investigates the impacts of tobacco consumption and manufacturing on the environment. Specifically, we examine current practices and strategies, which address tobacco waste – against a global backdrop of tobacco cultivation, consumption and production. Given the junction of external practices and governmental decisions as a goal in tobacco control, public policy theory becomes important in our examination of how strategies to address the environmental impacts of tobacco production waste can be aligned with appropriate public policy approaches. Such theory supports the principle that government, as the most effective advocate for measures to protect the global citizen and environment, should promote public policies, which seek to safeguard both.