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상급종합병원 서비스디자인 적용 단일 사례연구 -권역응급의료센터의 환자와 의료진 경험 데이터를 중심으로- (A case study on the application of service design in a tertiary care hospital - Focusing on patient and Medical staff experience data at a Regional emergency medical center -)

  • 최정민;안진호
    • 서비스연구
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    • 제13권4호
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    • pp.113-130
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    • 2023
  • 본 연구는 환자와 의료진의 경험을 중심으로 상급종합병원 권역응급의료센터의 서비스디자인을 적용한 단일 사례 연구이다. 서비스디자인 기법을 활용하여 의료 서비스 경험을 측정 및 개선하고, 그 효과를 검증하는 것을 목표로 한다. 환자와 의료진으로부터 심층적인 경험 데이터를 수집하기 위해 민족지학(ethnography)과 디자인 워크숍을 중심으로 한 질적 사례 연구를 진행했다. 이 연구는 응급 의료 서비스에서 직면한 문제에 특히 중점을 두고 환자와 의료진 간의 주요 경험 차이를 확인하였으며, 권역응급의료센터 환경의 복잡한 역학을 이해하기 위해 환자와 의료진 인터뷰, 디자인씽킹 워크숍을 통해 수집된 정성 데이터를 대해 종합적으로 분석하고 디자인에 반영했다.연구 결과, 환자와 의료진의 요구를 반영한 디자인 현황을 3가지 주요 측면인 소통 개선, 환자 흐름 관리, 환경 개선의 필요성이 강조되었으며, 환자와 의료진 두 그룹의 특정 요구 사항의 차이점을 분석하여 권역응급의료센터의 서비스 개선을 위해 디자인 주도의 실행 과정을 적용 할 수 있었다. 이 연구는 의료 분야에서 디자인의 역할과 중요성을 강조하며, 이론적인 연구와 실제 디자인 실행 간의 효율적인 방법을 제시하고 있다. 이를 통해 더욱 빠르고 효과적이며 만족도가 높은 의료 서비스 환경을 만드는 데 기여할 수 것이다. 그리고 서비스디자인이 환자와 의료진 모두의 만족을 위한 새로운 혁신 과정의 핵심으로 보는 새로운 계기가 되기를 기대한다.

다문화 인식과 다문화 수용성의 관계에서 상호문화감수성의 효과 (Mediating effect of Intercultural Sensitivity on the relationship between Multicultural Awareness and Multicultural Acceptance)

  • 이소원;김보영;박충길
    • 문화기술의 융합
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    • 제9권5호
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    • pp.919-926
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    • 2023
  • 본 연구는 다문화의 급격한 변화 속에서 간호대학생의 다문화 인식, 다문화 수용성 및 상호문화감수성의 관계를 탐색하고 향후 보건의료인력으로서 다문화 인식 제고를 위한 방향을 모색하는데 있다. 본 연구는 일 개지역의 2개 대학 간호학과 학생 135명을 대상으로 설문을 조사하였으며 임의응답 및 중도탈락을 제외한 108명을 최종분석대상으로 하였다. 자료의 분석은 SPSS와 Process macro를 활용하여 빈도분석, 상관분석, 신뢰도 분석과 매개효과를 검증하였다. 연구 결과는 다문화 인식과 다문화 수용성의 관계는 통계적으로 유의한 관계가 확인되었다(r=.572, p<.001). 상호문화감수성과 다문화수용성(r=.650, p<.001), 다문화 인식(r=.456, p<.001)과의 관계도 유의한 정적 상관이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 다문화 인식과 다문화 수용성 간의 관계에서도 상호문화감수성의 매개 효과가 있었다. 즉, 다문화 인식과 다문화 수용성 간의 관계에서 상호문화감수성은 0.188-0.554의 범위로 95% 신뢰구간에서 0이 포함되지 않아 간접효과가 통계적으로 유의한 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과를 고려했을 때 다문화 수용성을 높이기 위해서는 다문화 인식에 대한 제고와 더불어 상호문화 감수성을 높이는 것이 중요함을 확인하였다.

일·가족 양립 정책 이용과 양육 스트레스 : 성별과 직업군을 중심으로 (Work·Family Compatibility Policy Usage and Parenting Stress : Focusing on Sex and Occupational Groups)

  • 조윤주
    • 가족자원경영과 정책
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    • 제28권1호
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    • pp.27-38
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    • 2024
  • 본 연구는 일·가족 양립 정책 중 출산 및 육아 지원 제도의 활용 정도, 그리고 제도의 이용 여부와 양육 스트레스 양상을 알아보고자 남녀를 대상으로 다양한 직업군을 포함하여 실시되었다. 이를 위해 사용된 『한국아동패널』 13차(2020년) 자료는 기술 통계, 교차 분석, One-way ANOVA와 Duncan의 사후 검증으로 분석되었다. 주요 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 남녀 모두 관련 제도 중 '유연근무제'를 이용한 비율이 가장 높았고, 직업군별로는 두 집단 모두 '전문가 및 관련 종사자'에서 '유연근무제'를 제일 많이 선택하였다. 관련 제도 이용 여부와 양육 스트레스는 응답자 모두 평균 이상의 양육 스트레스를 지각하는 것으로 나타났다. 이 중 남성은 '유연근무제' 이용자, '가족돌봄휴직' 이용자 순으로 높았으며, 직업군별 양육 스트레스 정도는 '군인'이 가장 낮았다. 여성의 경우, '육아휴직' 이용자의 양육 스트레스가 가장 높았고 그 다음은 '육아기근로단축시간' 이용자였다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 일·가족 양립 정책 활성화에 관한 함의를 논하였으며 사회적, 개인적 측면에서 제언을 하였다.

서비스직 유무에 따른 아르바이트 종사자 대학생의 자가구취인식도가 구강보건관리실천도에 미치는 영향 (The effects of self-perception of halitosis on oral health behaviors of college students)

  • 정혜민;조한아;정성균;김아영;김예린;김유림;이예진;이은아;정민주;임도선
    • 대한치위생과학회지
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    • 제2권2호
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2019
  • 본 연구는 수도권에 거주하는 서비스직 아르바이트 중인 대학생 150명, 비서비스직인 대학생 150명을 대상으로 2018년 4월 26일부터 5월 5일까지 자가구취인식도가 구강보건관리실천도에 미치는 영향력 알아보고자 설문조사를 실시한 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 서비스직군에서 칫솔질을 하는 목적은 '충치와 잇몸병 예방'과 '구취' 항목이 주를 이룬 반면, 비서비스직군에서는 '충치와 잇몸병 예방'과 '상쾌한 기분' 항목에 가장 많은 응답을 한 것으로 나타났다(x2=18.21, p<0.001). 2. 서비스직군과 비서비스직군 모두에서 구취의 원인은 백태와 음식물이 영향을 미치는 요인으로 나타났다(x2=10.95, p=0.027). 3. 서비스직 유무에 따른 자가구취인식도와 구강보건관리실천도의 평균분석에 따르면, 서비스직군에서 모든값이 높은 것으로 나타났다(p<0.001). 4. 자가구취인식과 구강보건관리실천도는 음의 상관관계가 있는 것으로 확인되었다(γ=-0.11, p<0.05). 5. 성별과 학년을 보정한 회귀분석모델에서, 자가구취인식도가 한 단위 증가하면 구강보건관리실천도는 증가하는 것으로 나타났다(Beta=-0.185, p=0.02). 이상과 같이 서비스직 유무에 따른 아르바이트 종사자 대학생을 대상으로 자가구취인식도가 구강보건관리 실천도에 미치는 영향을 확인해 본 결과, 서비스직 아르바이트에 종사하는 대학생의 자가구취인식도가 높을수록 구강보건관리실천도에 미치는 영향이 증가하는 것을 근거로 서비스직 종사자의 구강건강향상 및 증진을 위한 구강건강 프로그램 및 홍보등의 체계적인 개입이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

종합병원 간호사의 교대근무와 건강상태에 관한 연구 (A Study of Health Condion and Shift Service of the Nurse in)

  • 김순옥
    • 간호행정학회지
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    • 제3권1호
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    • pp.119-133
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    • 1997
  • Continuing shift service of clinical nurses can be not only the cause of occupational dissatisfaction by being connected with the change of circadian rhythm and the burden of duties to be applicable to such changes. But also of inviting the lowering of nursing quality by being affected to the resignation of the nurses as the threat to the health of the nurses. This study has selected 500 nurses at random under non-probability sampling who have been serving by shift in 7 general hospitals which have over 400 sickbeds for the purpose of cross-sectional survey design from Sep. 7 through 20, 1996. Standardized modification of the CMI has been used which was designed for Koreans with Cornell Medical Index developed by Broadman and his fellow workers as the study device. The structure of the device was composed of 35 questions on physical appeal(Chronbach's ${\alpha}=8507$) and 22 questions of mental appeal(Cronbach's ${\alpha}=.8166$ totalling 57 questions. The collected data has been computerrized by using SPSS. General character, present symptom, perceived symptom and others are sought by practical number and percentage, and the health condition comparison followed by general characters was conducted by t-test and ANOVA. The post test was by Duncan's test by the level of p<.05. 1) The items of the answer that they have the physical symptom presently by 50% or over of the nurses were as "Do you often have spells of severe dizziness", "Are your eyes often red or inflamed", "Does press or pain in the head often make like miserable", "Are your ankles often badly swollen", "Do pains in the back make it hard for you to keep up with your work". 2) The items of the answer by over 50% of the nurses as the mental symptom at present were "do you fell bad when criticized?", "Do you get angry when everything is against your will?", "do you get angry when ordered to do this and that?", "do you feel uneasy by such a trifle thing?", "do you tremble or are you freightened by sudden sound?". The mental and physical symptoms which have appeared presently in connection with the shift service have been agreed with each other. But the physical condition has been worse than the mental one. 3) In the physical health conditions followed by demosociological character, there were the significant differences by sex, religion and place of residence(p<.05), and in the mental health conditions, there were the significant differences by age, marital status, residence place and the required time for attending hospital(p<.05). 4) There was significant difference by the degree of satisfaction about the duty in both the physical and mental health conditions. In short, the higher the degree of duty satisfaction, the better the health conditions. 5) There were the significant difference according to the times of night duty and whether they take the drug or not or the kinds of the drugs in the physical health conditions related with the characters of night shift. Mental health conditions in the night shift case showed significant differences according to their taking drug or not or the kinds of the drugs(p<.05). I can confirm that the nurses have been affected continuously by the shift service mentally and physically. The maintenance of the physical and mental health of the nurses and its promotion are very important problem to guarantee the quality nursing in the performance of the nursing service continuously and effectively, so the hospital should make every effort to improve the duty conditions by finding out the causes affecting to their health. In the nursing management viewpoint, I think that elevating the satisfaction degree about the duty would be a great help to the promotion of physical and mental health conditions. But what is most important is that the nurses themselves should take care of themselves in maintaining the good conditions in their service in the hospital.

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말기암환자 가족간병인의 미충족 의료 분석 (Unmet Medical Service Needs in Family Caregivers of Terminal Cancer Patients)

  • 신웅재;황선욱;황인철;최윤선;이용주;김영성;신지성;최영호;임다원;김한숙
    • Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.163-169
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    • 2016
  • 목적: 말기암환자들에게 간병인의 미충족 의료는 매우 중요하지만 간병인들이 필요로 하는 통증 조절, 삶의 질 보조, 가족간의 문제, 심리 사회적 문제, 자택 요양, 세심한 돌봄, 보완 대체 의학 같은 건강의 질을 유지할 수 있게 하는 관리 정보를 간병인에게 전부 제공하기에는 한계가 있고, 이와 관련된 연구는 아직 부족한 상태이다. 이번 연구를 통해 간병인의 특성과 미충족 의료를 밝히고, 특성에 따른 미충족 의료가 어떻게 다른지 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: 설문조사는 4개 호스피스 완화의료 병동에 입원한 말기암환자의 가족간병인 109명을 대상으로 시행되었다. 자료는 2014년 3월 1일부터 2014년 12월 31일까지 구조화된 설문지를 이용하여 수집되었다. 기존의 설문지를 수정하여 삶의 질 향상에 필요할 것으로 생각되는 14개 항목에 관해 필요성과 충족도를 알아보았다. 또, 통계는 단변량 분석으로 카이제곱 검정을, 다변량 분석으로 이중 회귀 분석을 사용하였다. 결과: 보완대체요법 및 건강기능식품 상담, 성기능 상담, 암 검진, 가족 및 대인관계 상담, 보험 상담, 직업 상담, 경제적 지원 등 7개의 항목에서 의미 있는 결과가 나타났다. 말기암환자의 가족간병인의 삶의 질 향상과 관련된 요구 중 충족도가 미충족도보다 더 높은 요구는 14개 중 피로 관리, 건강 체중 관리 2개였다. 결론: 본 연구 결과를 통하여, 말기암환자의 가족간병인의 미충족 의료를 이해하고 미충족 원인과 효과적인 중재방안에 대한 연구를 통해 요구를 충족시킬 수 있는 방안을 마련할 것을 제안한다.

지역사회간호학 관련 논문 연구동향 분석 -학회지 발표 논문을 중심으로- (A Trend of Research in Community Health Nursing)

  • 이인숙;김윤아;최경원;진영란
    • 지역사회간호학회지
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.288-298
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    • 2001
  • This article makes an attempt to evaluate the extent of developing community health nursing knowledge and to suggest the direction of developing a body of knowledge henceforth through the results of analysis for contents and outcomes of all literatures. which have been published in the Journal related to community health nursing. Refer to the following for the result of this article. 1. The total number of literatures analyzed amounted to 100 pieces in Journal of community health nursing society. 78 in Journal of industrial nursing society, 134 in Journal of school health society. 40 in Journal of home care nursing society. 2. Journal of community health nursing society Health needs and educational-behavioral diagnoses, which are more concrete nursing assessments and diagnoses. formed the main current(54%) of articles published in Journal of community health nursing society since 1992. There was a quantitative growth as well as a qualitative advance. Through a classification by the type of a body of knowledge. It was found that the knowledge providing nursing practice with bases, commanded an overwhelming majority(71.8%). Also, Researches on systemic supports for nursing practice are showing a tendency to increase. 3. Journal of industrial nursing society 52.6% of research papers presented in Journal of industrial nursing society dealt with health problem of workers. assessment of risk factors, diagnosis of health behaviors. Because of the beginning of an industrial nursing, the domain of nursing management to establish the role and task, work condition, training. documentary system made up 23 percent of research, subjects. A knowledge providing nursing practice with bases have a majority, 69.2%. In addition. the subject concerning a systemic support and quality assurance was scarce but continuously presented. 4. Journal of school health society The major point of this journal is the identification of health problems and risk factors which belong to assessment and diagnosis domain(56.8%) regardless of year, Because of the interdisciplinary characteristic. The knowledge on quality assurance of nursing practice is relatively rare. But, articles related to a systemic support is plentiful. 5. Journal of home care nursing society In its infancy, there was a large number of papers concerning need assessment and diagnosis, Comparing others, this journal has introduced a good many of articles related to program management. delivery system. service fee, etc that belong to domain of systemic support for nursing practice. 6. It is showing definitely that quantity and extent of research have grown for a short period. See the analysis in terms of nursing process, studies related to the domain of assessment and diagnosis command an absolute majority regardless of kinds of journal. Although articles referring to program management and implementation is increasing in number, it is scarce to evaluate a nursing program and grope for an improvement. Also, program development based on a theoretical framework is little. Therefore much more scientific effort to ensure profession should be executed. 7. In the methodological aspect, longitudinal study needs to be carried out so that we could show the evidence based nursing theory. To develop a more general theory, we have to conduct a study of various subjects and improve a validity of tools through a repeat test. In addition, the effort for interdisciplinary cooperation is needed.

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보건지소 공중보건 일반의사의 업무수행정도와 수련개선방안 (Assessment of the Activities of General Physicians in Health Subcenters and a Scheme to Improve the Training Program)

  • 박정한;천병렬;우극현
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.193-202
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    • 1986
  • 공중보건 일반의사들의 업무수행 정도와 진료, 예방 및 보건증진 사업 수행에 필요한 기본적인 수기의 수행능력을 평가하고 그들의 업무 수행능력을 향상시키기 위한 교육 개선 방안을 마련하기 위하여 1982년과 1983년에 배치된 공중보건 일반의사들 가운데 남부 4개도(경북, 경남, 전북, 전남)에서 출신학교별로 비슷한 비율로 120명을 무작위로 뽑아 1984년 1월 9일에서 2월 10일 사이에 설문지를 이용한 집단면담을 하였다. 면담에 응한 97명 가운데 본 조사에 필요한 자료를 제시할 수 있었는 86명으로 부터 얻은 자료를 분석하였다. 보건지소의 진료실적은 2종 보험실시 지역이 1일 평균 $30{\sim}40$명으로 환자가 많으나 그외 지역은 $3{\sim}4$명으로 매우 저조하였다. 또한 예방 및 보건증진사업을 적극적으로 추진한다고 답한 사람은 조사대상자의 2%에 불과했다. 63가지 기본적인 임상수기 가운데서 자신있게 할 수 있다고 한 사람이 50%이상인 것은 근육주사, 정맥주사, 외상치료와 같이 간단한 것으로 12가지에 불과했고 임산부관리, 응급환자처치, 예방 및 보건증진 사업등에 필요한 수기에 자신이 있는 사람은 10%도 못 되었다. 국립보건원에서 실시하고 있는 공중보건 일반의사들의 실무교육이 현지 사정과 맞지 않는것이 많아 실무에 큰 도움이 안 된다고 했으며, 도립병원이나 지방 종합병원에서 받은 임상수련이 실무에 많은 도움이 된다고 한 사람은 38.8%였으며, 별도움이 안된 이유 가운데 전문의가 없거나 있어도 무관심하여 수련지도가 부족한 탓이라고 한 사람이 48.4%로 가장 많았다. 공중보건일반의 실무교육은 교육내용을 실무종사자들의 의견을 수렴하여 현지 사정에 맞도록 개선해야할 것이며, 실무종사자들 가운데 유능한 사람을 강사로 활용하고, 국립보건원에 모아 교육시키는 것보다 전국을 몇개의 지역으로 나누어 지방에서 교육을 시키는것이 효과적일 것이다. 임상실습은 4개월이 적당할 것으로 생각되며, 수련기간 동안에 필수적으로 익혀야 할 수기를 수첩으로 만들어 실습사실을 지도전문의에게 확인 받게하며, 보건사회부에서는 수련지도에 관한 지침을 마련하여 수련병원에 배부하고 수련상황을 평가하도록 한다. 최소한 기본 4과에 전문의를 갖춘 병원을 수련병원으로 선정하여야 할 것이다. 공중보건 일반의사들이 현지에서 당면하는 문제해결을 도우고 사업추진을 위한 동기를 유발하기 위해 보수교육이 필요하며 이를 위해 보건사회부는 재정 및 행정적 지원을 하는 것이 좋겠다. 도를 몇개지역으로 나누어 지역마다 지도위원회를 구성하여 공중보건 일반의사들을 순회지도 하고 자문에 응하도록 하는 것이 좋을 것으로 생각된다.

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우리나라 농촌지역의 출산조절행태 및 출산조절행위의 결정요인 분석

  • 정경희;한성현;방숙
    • 한국인구학
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.33-53
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    • 1988
  • This study aimed at developing a desirable family planning policy and strategy by examining the current status of family planning practice in rural Korea and by indentifying the crucial factors which affect fertility control behavior. For this purpose, an analytical study was conducted, using the survey data collected in July 1985, on an interview basis, on 1, 440 married women living in the Soyi, Wonnam and Maingdong townships of Eumseong County(in North Chungcheong Province). This study population has the typical characteristics of rural areas, and the results of the analysis can be summarized as follows: 1. In regard to the demographic characteristics of the study population : their average age at marriage was 23.7, they had an average of 2.6 children( 1.3 boys, 1.3 girls) :10% experienced the death of their child (ren) :14% had spontaneous abortion(s) :4% weathered stillbirth(s) :35% went through induced abortion (s) : and 5.5% were currently pregnant. The average of their ideal numbers of children was 2.2, while 44% felt that they must have a son. 2. Looking at the contact rate with medical & health institutions, over the past 1 year, the visit rate to health subcenters was 43.7%, while 26.9% visited the (county) health center :59.6% had been to private clinics : and 41.5% went to the Soonchunhyang - Eumsung hospital : thus showing a relatively high rate of accessibility. 3. The utilization rate of family planning services was 76.5%, with tubectomy being the most prominent method at 52.3%, while the informants were health workers in 54.2% of the acceptors. Of the 8.4% who discontinued the use of contraceptive methods, only 26% did so due to want for pregnancy, natural infertility (meno - pause), or other reasons, while the remaining 74% stopped usage on account of side effects, failure in the methods themselves, and inconvenience of use, thus pointing to a situation where the proper choice of family planning methods have not yet been made. It can be noted that there is a strong motivation for early birth stopping as 35.3% practice family planning even with only one child, of which 38.3% have had sterilization operations. According to results of a multiple regression analysis, among the variables affecting contraception usage the most significant variable was the number of sons. 4. 34.8% experienced induced abortions. It was shown as a result of multiple regression analysis that the number of children and attitudes toward induced abortions extensively affected their frequency of abortions conducted. 5. In the regard to the relation between family planning and induced abortions, 33.7% of the women used both, while 52.0% of them used only the former(family planning), with only 1.4 % utilizing solely the latter(abortion), and 12.9% totally abstaining from fertility regulation : again, the discriminant analysis indicated that the choice of family planning and/or induced abortion was determined by the number of children and attitudes toward induced abortion. In view of the above mentioned results, the following are some comments and suggestions concerning problems related to the current family planning policies, in Korea : 1. It is difficult to expect a further quantitative expansion in family planning program operations, as there has been an excessive supply of target-oriented sterilization operations on women. From a maternal and child health care point of view, it will be desirable to have a diversification of service points in the future where family planning methods may be properly chosen, so that choices of methods which suit the mothers' characteristics and tastes may be made by the individuals themselves by strengthening their quality of family planning information services. 2. Along with the strengthening of the qualitative improvement of family planning services policies must be implemented to effectively promote the moral (ethical) deterrents to induced abortions and to preference for sons. From a maternal care standpoint, the social permissive norm toward induced abortion must be modified, and the bias towards son must be analyzed as the women with more daughters have a lower rate of family planning acceptance. Such changes in attitudes, however, can not be hoped to be accomplished with ad hoc policies, but will only be possible when an enhancement of the women's status(within the society) is brought about in a long - term perspective.

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농촌(農村)에 있어서 분만개조요원(分娩介助要員)의 봉사(奉仕)에 의(依)한 모자보건(母子保健)rhk 가족계획(家族計劃)에 관(關) 연구(硏究) (A Study on Maternity Aids Utilization in the Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning)

  • 예민해;이성관
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.57-95
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    • 1972
  • This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of service by maternity aids concerning maternal and child health in improving simultaneously infant mortality, contraception and vital registration among expectant mothers in rural Korea, where there is less apportunity for maternal and child health care. It is unrealistic to expect to solve this problem in rural Korea through professional persons considering the situation of medical facilities and the socioeconomic condition of residents. So, we intended to adopt a system of services by maternity aids who were educated formally among indigenous women. After the women were trained in maternal and child health, contraception, and registration for a short period, they were assigned as a maternity aids to each village to help with various activities concerning maternal and child health, for example, registration of pregnant women, home visiting to check for complications, supplying of delivery kits, attendance at delivery, persuasion of contraception, and invitation for registration and so on. Mean-while, four researchers called on the maternity aids to collect materials concerning vital events, maternal child health, contraception and registration, and to give further instruction and supervision as the program proceeded. A. Changes of women's attitude by services of maternity aid. Now, we examined to what extent' such a service system to expectant mothers affected a change in attitude of women residing in the study area as compared to women of the control area. 1) In the birth and death places, there were no changes between last and present infants, in study or control area. 2) In regard to attendants at delivery, there were no changes except for a small percentage of attendance (8%) by maternity aid in study area. But, I expect that more maternity sids could be used as attendants at delivery if they would be trained further and if there was more explanation to the residents about such a service. 3) Considering the rate of utilization of sterilized delivery kit, I am sure that more than 90 percent would be used if the delivery kit were supplied in the proper time. There were significant differences in rates between the study and the control areas. 4) Taking into consideration the utilization rate of the clinic for prenatal care and well baby care, if suck facilities were installed, it would probably be well utilized. 5) In the contraception, the rate of approval was as high as 89 percent in study area as compared to 82 percent in the control area. 6) Considering the rate of pre-and post-partum acceptance on contraception were as much as 70 percent or more, if motivation to use contraception was given to them adequately, the government could reach the goals for family planning as planned. 7) In the vital registration, the rate of birth registration in the study area was some what improved compared to that of the control area, while the rate of death registration was not changed at all. Taking into account the fact that the rate of confirmation of vital events by maternity aids was remarkably high, if the registration system changed to a 'notification' system instead of formal registration ststem, it would be improved significantly compared to present system. B. Effect of the project Thus, with changes in the residents' attitude, was there a reduction in the infant death rate? 1) It is very difficult problem to compare the mortality of infants between last and present infants, because many women don't want to answer accurately about their dead children especially the infants that died within a few days after birth. In this study the data of present death comes from the maternity aides who followed up every pregnancy they had recorded to see what had happened. They seem to have very reliable information on what happened in first few weeks with follow up visitits to check out later changes. From these calculaton, when we compared the rate of infant death between last and present infant, there was remarkable reduction of death rate for present infant compare to that of last children, namely, the former was 30, while the latter 42. The figure is the lowest rate that I have ever heard. As the quality of data we could assess by comparing the causes of death. In the current death rate by communicable disease was much lower compare to the last child especially, tetanus cases and pneumonia. 2) Next, how many respondents used contraception after birth because of frequent contact with the maternity aid. In the registered cases, the respondents showed a tendency to practice contraception at an earlier age and with a small number of children. In a comparison of the rate of contraception between the study and the control area, the rate in the former was significantly higher than that of the latter. What is more, the proportion favoring smaller numbers of children and younger women rose in the study area as compared to the control area. 3) Regarding vital registration, though the rate of registration was gradually improved by efforts of maternity aid, it would be better to change the registration system. 4) In the crude birth rate, the rate in the study area was 22.2 while in the control area was 26.5. Natural increase rate showed 15.4 in the study area, while control area was 19.1. 5) In assessment of the efficiency of the maternity aids judging by the cost-effect viewpoint, the workers in the Medium area seemed to be more efficiency than those of other areas.

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