• 대한기관식도과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기관식도과학회 1972년도 춘계종합 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.6-7
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• 1972

최근 10년간 우리나라 경제의 급격한 발전으로 이에 부수적으로 일어나는 대기오염은 생활환경을 파괴하는 오염형태의 하나로서 직접 또는 간접으로 인체에 미치는 피해는 격심하여가고 있으며 이것이 심각한 사회문제로 대두되었다. 대기오염이 인체에 미치는 영향에 관하여 병리나 임상적으로는 많은 연구보고가 있으나 호흡기로의 기시부인 비강이나 인의 영향에 관한 연구보고는 많지 않은 실정인 차제에 대기오염과 비, 인후질환자의 관계를 추구하여 그 대책을 논하는 것은 의의 있는 일이라 하겠다. 이러한 연구의 일환으로서 연세의대 공해연구소의 대기오염도조사에서 가장 심한 곳으로 확인된 부산시 우암동 지역에 위치한 S 공업고등학교 학생 469명은 조사군으로 하고 대기오염도가 낮은 K고등학교 학생 345명을 대조군으로 하여 내과, 안과, 비, 인후과적 검사를 실시하여 얻은 성적과 그 외의 문제점들을 검토하고자 한다. I. 위해오염물질 대기오염물질은 자극성가스와 질식성가스로 구분되며 이비인후과 질환과 밀접한 관계가 있는 것은 자극성 가스이며 여기에는 질소산화물, 유황산화물, 탄화수소와 그리고 광합성작용에 의하여 2차적으로 발생하는 강력한 자극성물질인 PAN(Peroxy acyl nitrate) 등을 열거할 수 있으며 이들 가스는 산화성이 강하기 때문에 점막이 부착되어 괴양 및 2차감염을 일으켜 인체에 피해를 준다. 이리한 오염물질은 고체연료(특히 석탄)나 액체연료의 불완전 연소때와 각종 차량의 배기가스로서 배출된다. 대표적인 오염물질인 일산화탄소, 질소산화물 및 유황산화물의 조사지역과 대조지역의 오염도는 다음과 같다. II. 인체에 미치는 피해 1. 일반적인 피해 대기오염이 인체에 미치는 영향은 오염물질의 물리적 화학적 성상 및 오염물질의 농도, 양, 그리고 폭로기간 등에 따라 다르다. 각 오염물질별 건강피해를 보면 (1) $아황산가스(SO_2)$ 아황산가스는 오염물질 중 가장 대표적인 독성을 가지고 있으며 용해도가 높아서 기도에 용이하게 흡수되어 처음에는 자극증상이 오고 나중에는 기도 저항을 일으켜 폐부종, 호흡중추의 마비를 일으킨다. 만성 폭로 시에는 비염, 인루염, 후각 및 미각장해를 일으킨다. (2) 일산화탄소(CO) CO는 혈색소의 산소운반 능력을 박탈하기 때물에 중독증상을 일으킨다. 즉 CO 중독은 농도와 흡입시간에 따라 차이가 있으나 우선 두통, 현기, 오심, 구토, 이명이 오고 호흡곤란, 허탈상태, 근육이완, 졸도등을 수반하고 혼수상태에서 사망한다. (3) 질소산화물 여러 질소산화물중 배기가스에서는 $NO_2로$ 배출되며 또한 탄화수소와 태양광선이 대기중에서 작용하여 $NO_2를$ 생산하며 $NO_2는$ 변성 Hemoglobin 을 생성하여 호흡기 장해를 일으킨다. $NO_2의$ 급성 중독증상으로서는 눈, 코를 강하게 자극하고 폐충혈, 폐수종, 기관지염, 폐염 등을 일으킨다. 만성 중독시에는 만성폐섬유와 및 폐수종을 일으킨다. (4) $오존(O_3)$ Ozone은 자동차 배기가스에서 나오는 $NO_2$ gas 및 탄화수소와 작용하여, PAN이라는 자극성 물질을 생성시키는 광학적 Smog의 주요소로 알려져 있다. 자극적인 냄새가 있음으로 불쾌감을 주고 비, 인후점막의 전조감과 두통이 오며 폐기능을 저하시키며 더욱 진행되면 폐충혈, 폐수종 등을 일으킨다 (5) Smog에 의한 건강피해 대표적인 것이 1952.12.5~12.8까지 4일간 영국 Lon-don에서 계속된 Smog사건이며, 이 사건으로 말미암아 호흡기질환 사망율이 사건전보다 사건기간 중 혹은 사건후에 5~10배의 증가율을 보였다. 이때 Smog의 주원인은 연료의 불완전 연소에 의한 연기와 이때 발생하는 아황산가스가 주원인이며 dust가 2차적 원인이라고 생각하였다. 새로운 종류의 공해로서 광학적 Smog에 의한 피해가 1970. 7. 18 Tokyo의 한 고등학교에서 발생한 바 운동장에서 운동 중이던 여학생 43명이 눈에 대한 자극증상, 인후동통, 기침을 호소하고 그중에는 호흡곤란으로 의식불명에 빠진 학생도 있었다. 이러한 현상은 대기중에 배출된 탄화수소와 oxidant가 대기중의 광 energy와 결합하여 발생한 것이라 하였다. 2) 비, 인후과 질환 대조군 345명과 조사군 469명중 호흡기계, 안과 및 비, 인두의 자각증상의 유소견자는 각각 39명(11.3%)와 106명(22.6%)로서 조사군이 대조군 보다 약 2배 많았다. 조사군의 유소견자중 호흡기증상 29명(29%), 안증상 22명(21%), 비폐쇠 및 비후 50명(47%), 인후통 5명(5%)으로서 비, 인두 자각증상의 유소견자가 55명(52%)으로서 과반수를 차지하고 있었다. 임상검사에 의한 타각증상의 유소견자는 대조군 99명 (28.8), 조사군 180(384%)으로서 조사군이 대조군 보다 10%정도 많았다. 조사군의 유소견자중 호흡기질환 1명(0.6%), 안질환 8명(4.4%), 비염 97명(54%), 인두편도염 74명(41%)으로서 비, 인두질환이 171명이었다. 이상의 성적에서 오염지구의 자, 타각증상의 유소견자중 비, 인두질환이 압도적으로 많은 것으로 보아 대기오염과 이비인후과 질환과는 밀접한 관계가 있으며 앞으로 그 대책이 시급히 요구된다고 하겠다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.165-203
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• 1987

This project was a service-cum-research effort with a quasi-experimental study design to examine the health benefits of an integrated Family Planning (FP)/Maternal & Child health (MCH) Service approach that provides crucial factors missing in the present on-going programs. The specific objectives were: 1) To test the effectiveness of trained nurse/midwives (MW) assigned as change agents in the Health Sub-Center (HSC) to bring about the changes in the eight FP/MCH indicators, namely; (i)FP/MCH contacts between field workers and their clients (ii) the use of effective FP methods, (iii) the inter-birth interval and/or open interval, (iv) prenatal care by medically qualified personnel, (v) medically supervised deliveries, (vi) the rate of induced abortion, (vii) maternal and infant morbidity, and (viii) preinatal & infant mortality. 2) To measure the integrative linkage (contacts) between MW & HSC workers and between HSC and clients. 3) To examine the organizational or administrative factors influencing integrative linkage between health workers. Study design; The above objectives called for quasi-experimental design setting up a study and control area with and without a midwife. An active intervention program (FP/MCH minimum 'package' program) was conducted for a 2 year period from June 1982-July 1984 in Seosan County and 'before and after' surveys were conducted to measure the change. Service input; This study was undertaken by the Soonchunhyang University in collaboration with WHO. After a baseline survery in 1981, trained nurses/midwives were introduced into two health sub-centers in a rural setting (Seosan county) for a 2 year period from 1982 to 1984. A major service input was the establishment of midwifery services in the existing health delivery system with emphasis on nurse/midwife's role as the link between health workers (nurse aids) and village health workers, and the referral of risk patients to the private physician (OBGY specialist). An evaluation survey was made in August 1984 to assess the effectiveness of this alternative integrated approach in the study areas in comparison with the control area which had normal government services. Method of evaluation; a. In this study, the primary objective was first to examine to what extent the FP/MCH package program brought about changes in the pre-determined eight indicators (outcome and impact measures) and the following relationship was first analyzed; b. Nevertheless, this project did not automatically accept the assumption that if two or more activities were integrated, the results would automatically be better than a non-integrated or categorical program. There is a need to assess the 'integration process' itself within the package program. The process of integration was measured in terms of interactive linkages, or the quantity & quality of contacts between workers & clients and among workers. Intergrative linkages were hypothesized to be influenced by organizational factors at the HSC clinic level including HSC goals, sltrurture, authority, leadership style, resources, and personal characteristics of HSC staff. The extent or degree of integration, as measured by the intensity of integrative linkages, was in turn presumed to influence programme performance. Thus as indicated diagrammatically below, organizational factors constituted the independent variables, integration as the intervening variable and programme performance with respect to family planning and health services as the dependent variable: Concerning organizational factors, however, due to the limited number of HSCs (2 in the study area and 3 in the control area), they were studied by participatory observation of an anthropologist who was independent of the project. In this observation, we examined whether the assumed integration process actually occurred or not. If not, what were the constraints in producing an effective integration process. Summary of Findings; A) Program effects and impact 1. Effects on FP use: During this 2 year action period, FP acceptance increased from 58% in 1981 to 78% in 1984 in both the study and control areas. This increase in both areas was mainly due to the new family planning campaign driven by the Government for the same study period. Therefore, there was no increment of FP acceptance rate due to additional input of MW to the on-going FP program. But in the study area, quality aspects of FP were somewhat improved, having a better continuation rate of IUDs & pills and more use of effective Contraceptive methods in comparison with the control area. 2. Effects of use of MCH services: Between the study and control areas, however, there was a significant difference in maternal and child health care. For example, the coverage of prenatal care was increased from 53% for 1981 birth cohort to 75% for 1984 birth cohort in the study area. In the control area, the same increased from 41% (1981) to 65% (1984). It is noteworthy that almost two thirds of the recent birth cohort received prenatal care even in the control area, indicating that there is a growing demand of MCH care as the size of family norm becomes smaller 3. There has been a substantive increase in delivery care by medical professions in the study area, with an annual increase rate of 10% due to midwives input in the study areas. The project had about two times greater effect on postnatal care (68% vs. 33%) at delivery care(45.2% vs. 26.1%). 4. The study area had better reproductive efficiency (wanted pregancies with FP practice & healthy live births survived by one year old) than the control area, especially among women under 30 (14.1% vs. 9.6%). The proportion of women who preferred the 1st trimester for their first prenatal care rose significantly in the study area as compared to the control area (24% vs 13%). B) Effects on Interactive Linkage 1. This project made a contribution in making several useful steps in the direction of service integration, namely; i) The health workers have become familiar with procedures on how to work together with each other (especially with a midwife) in carrying out their work in FP/MCH and, ii) The health workers have gotten a feeling of the usefulness of family health records (statistical integration) in identifying targets in their own work and their usefulness in caring for family health. 2. On the other hand, because of a lack of required organizational factors, complete linkage was not obtained as the project intended. i) In regards to the government health worker's activities in terms of home visiting there was not much difference between the study & control areas though the MW did more home visiting than Government health workers. ii) In assessing the service performance of MW & health workers, the midwives balanced their workload between 40% FP, 40% MCH & 20% other activities (mainly immunization). However, $85{\sim}90%$ of the services provided by the health workers were other than FP/MCH, mainly for immunizations such as the encephalitis campaign. In the control area, a similar pattern was observed. Over 75% of their service was other than FP/MCH. Therefore, the pattern shows the health workers are a long way from becoming multipurpose workers even though the government is pushing in this direction. 3. Villagers were much more likely to visit the health sub-center clinic in the study area than in the control area (58% vs.31%) and for more combined care (45% vs.23%). C) Organization factors (admistrative integrative issues) 1. When MW (new workers with higher qualification) were introduced to HSC, it was noted that there were conflicts between the existing HSC workers (Nurse aids with less qualification than MW) and the MW for the beginning period of the project. The cause of the conflict was studied by an anthropologist and it was pointed out that these functional integration problems stemmed from the structural inadequacies of the health subcenter organization as indicated below; i) There is still no general consensus about the objectives and goals of the project between the project staff and the existing health workers. ii) There is no formal linkage between the responsibility of each member's job in the health sub-center. iii) There is still little chance for midwives to play a catalytic role or to establish communicative networks between workers in order to link various knowledge and skills to provide better FP/MCH services in the health sub-center. 2. Based on the above findings the project recommended to the County Chief (who has power to control the administrative staff and the technical staff in his county) the following ; i) In order to solve the conflicts between the individual roles and functions in performing health care activities, there must be goals agreed upon by both. ii) The health sub·center must function as an autonomous organization to undertake the integration health project. In order to do that, it is necessary to support administrative considerations, and to establish a communication system for supervision and to control of the health sub-centers. iii) The administrative organization, tentatively, must be organized to bind the health worker's midwive's and director's jobs by an organic relationship in order to achieve the integrative system under the leadership of health sub-center director. After submitting this observation report, there has been better understanding from frequent meetings & communication between HW/MW in FP/MCH work as the program developed. Lessons learned from the Seosan Project (on issues of FP/MCH integration in Korea); 1) A majority or about 80% of the couples are now practicing FP. As indicated by the study, there is a growing demand from clients for the health system to provide more MCH services than FP in order to maintain the achieved small size of family through FP practice. It is fortunate to see that the government is now formulating a MCH policy for the year 2,000 and revising MCH laws and regulations to emphasize more MCH care for achieving a small size family through family planning practice. 2) Goal consensus in FP/MCH shouBd be made among the health workers It administrators, especially to emphasize the need of care of 'wanted' child. But there is a long way to go to realize the 'real' integration of FP into MCH in Korea, unless there is a structural integration FP/MCH because a categorical FP is still first priority to reduce the rate of population growth for economic reasons but not yet for health/welfare reasons in practice. 3) There should be more financial allocation: (i) a midwife should be made available to help to promote the MCH program and coordinate services, (in) there should be a health sub·center director who can provide leadership training for managing the integrated program. There is a need for 'organizational support', if the decision of integration is made to obtain benefit from both FP & MCH. In other words, costs should be paid equally to both FP/MCH. The integration slogan itself, without the commitment of paying such costs, is powerless to advocate it. 4) Need of management training for middle level health personnel is more acute as the Government has already constructed 90 MCH centers attached to the County Health Center but without adequate manpower, facilities, and guidelines for integrating the work of both FP and MCH. 5) The local government still considers these MCH centers only as delivery centers to take care only of those visiting maternity cases. The MCH center should be a center for the managment of all pregnancies occurring in the community and the promotion of FP with a systematic and effective linkage of resources available in the county such as i.e. Village Health Worker, Community Health Practitioner, Health Sub-center Physicians & Health workers, Doctors and Midwives in MCH center, OBGY Specialists in clinics & hospitals as practiced by the Seosan project at primary health care level.