Journal of agricultural medicine and community health (농촌의학ㆍ지역보건)
- Volume 11 Issue 1
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- Pages.44-54
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- 1986
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- 1738-9577(pISSN)
A Study on Health Seeking Behavior - Focused on Shopping-Around Phenomenon in Banwol-Eup Residents
일부(一部) 지역사회(地域社會) 주민(住民)의 의료(醫療) 행태(行態)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究) - 반월읍(半月邑) 주민(住民)의 Shopping-around 현상(現象)을 중심(中心)으로 -
- Choi, Young-Teak (Department of Preventive Medicine & Institute for Environmental Health, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
- Lee, Eun-Il (Department of Preventive Medicine & Institute for Environmental Health, College of Medicine, Korea University) ;
- Kim, Hyo-Joong (Department of Preventive Medicine & Institute for Environmental Health, College of Medicine, Korea University)
- 최영택 (고려대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실 및 환경의학연구소) ;
- 이은일 (고려대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실 및 환경의학연구소) ;
- 김효중 (고려대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실 및 환경의학연구소)
- Published : 1986.01.01
Abstract
This study was aimed at investigating the health seeking behaviors of patients; For the purpose of analyzing the research theme we classified the study into two phase. First, the types of patients' health seeking behavior were categorized into a scheme according to what medical care resources were utilized in patients' coping process. Second, from patients' first visits to third visits to medical resources, we analyzed variations of factors which noted as crucial elements in constituting the patients' sickness career. To grasp the generalized characteristics from complicated empirical data, we limited the scope of our analysis to third stage of health seeking. A total of 121 persons who had beer suffering from chronic diseases more than 3 months was sampled among the residents of Banwol-Eup, the target Area of Korea University Health Project. The findings are as follows ; 1) In the course of visiting medical care resources, 34 different types of health seeking Behavior were found. From this result we inferred the idea that patients in Banwol-Eup had not any stable norms to cope with their pains. Clinics, hospital, pharmacy, Herb-doctors', folkways (self-treatment) were accessed by patients in orders. But more than half of patients who had utilized clinics or hospitals from their first to third visits, changed medical care resources to others, for example herb doctors or folkways, which had fundamentally different treatment models. Upon these two facts, the diversified types and capricious patterns in the health seeking behavior of Banwol patients, we observed a typical Shopping-Around phenomenon. 2) Factors which influenced patients' to their sickness career were changed along the courses of health seeking, from first to third visits as follows ;
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