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기술예측을 위한 특허 키워드 네트워크 분석 (Keyword Network Analysis for Technology Forecasting)

  • 최진호;김희수;임남규
    • 지능정보연구
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    • 제17권4호
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    • pp.227-240
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    • 2011
  • 특허의 중요성이 커짐에 따라 특허분석의 중요성 또한 점점 커지고 있다. 특허분석은 네트워크 기반 방법과 키워드 기반 방법으로 나눠지는데 네트워크 기반은 특허 내부에 존재하는 세부 기술정보에 대한 분석이 불가능하다는 단점이 있고 키워드 기반은 기술정보간의 상호관계를 규명하지 못한다는 단점이 있다. 기존에 제시된 네트워크 기반 특허 분석과 키워드 기반 분석의 한계를 극복하기 위해서 두 방법을 혼합한 방법으로서 본 연구에서는 특허 키워드 네트워크 기반 분석 방법론을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서는 LED 분야의 특허들을 대상으로 텍스트 마이닝을 통해 중요한 기술정보를 추출한 다음, 키워드 네트워크를 구축하고, 이를 대상으로 커뮤니티 네트워크 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 특허 키워드 네트워크는 매우 낮은 밀도와 매우 높은 클러스터링 지수를 나타내었다. 밀도가 높다는 것은 LED 분야내 특허 키워드 네트워크 내 노드(키워드)들이 산발적으로 연결되어 있다는 것을 의미하며, 클러스터링 지수가 높다는 것은 해당 키워드 네트워크 내 노드, 즉 키워드들이 각각의 커뮤니티로 매우 긴밀하게 연결되어 있음을 나타낸다. 둘째, 특허 키워드 네트워크도 다른 지식네트워크와 마찬가지로 명확한 멱함수 분포를 따른다는 사실을 알 수 있었다. 이는 기존에 활발히 연구, 활용되어 많은 연결고리를 갖고 있는 특허개념(키워드)수록 지속적으로 다른 연구자들에 의해 선택되고 이 키워드를 바탕으로 새로운 키워드들이 연결되어서 이들 키워드간의 조합으로 새로운 기술이 발명된다는 것이다. 셋째, 특허가 개발될 때 특정 분야에 유입된 키워드 중 새로운 링크가 생긴 키워드의 대부분이 기존에 연결되어 있던 커뮤니티 내의 키워드들과 결합되어 새로운 특허 개념을 구성한다는 사실을 발견하였다. 이러한 사실은 단기(4년) 장기(10년) 두 기간 모두 동일하게 나타났다. 나아가 본 연구에서 제시한 방법론을 통해 도출된 특허 키워드 조합 정보를 활용하면 미래에 어떤 개념들이 합쳐져서 새로운 특허 단위로 만들어 질지 가늠해볼 수 있고, 새로운 특허를 개발할 때 참고할 수 있는 유용한 정보로 활용할 수 있다.

지방자치시대의 공공보건사업 발전 전략 (Strategies for Public Health Service Development in the Times of Local Autonomy)

  • 박정한
    • 보건행정학회지
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    • 제12권3호
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2002
  • 건강은 개인과 가족의 행복, 그리고 국가 발전의 기본 조건이며 국민건강은 국력이다. 건강보호와 증진에 필수적인 의료서비스는 모든 국민이 누려야 할 기본권이며 국가는 이를 제공할 의무가 있다. 산업화로 환경오염의 심화, 국민생활수준의 향상, 생활양상의 변화, 노인 인구의 증가, 의료기술의 발달, 의료서비스에 대한 접근성 향상 등으로 감염성 질병은 감소 하고 암, 심장질환, 당뇨병과 같은 만성, 퇴행성 질환이 중요한 국민건강문제로 대두되었다. 이러한 질병들은 난치병으로 예방이 매우 중요하나 흡연, 음주, 운동, 스트레스 등 행태학적 요인이 중요한 위험인자이므로 예방을 위한 접근방법이 전염성 질병과는 다르다. 질병양상의 변화, 전국민건강보험의 도입, 의사와 의료기관의 증가로 의료공급량의 증가, 의료기술의 발달 등으로 의료이용량이 폭증하여 국민의료비가 연간 30조원을 넘어섰고, 앞으로 계속 증가할 전망이다. 정부는 국민건강수준을 향상하여 삶의 질을 높이는 것을 중요한 정책목표로 설정하였으며, 이를 위해 보건의료서비스 공급체계를 효율화하고 평생건강관리체계를 구축하고자 하였다. 이러한 목표달성을 위하여 공공보건사업을 강화하여 질병예방과 건강증진을 통하여 건강수준을 높이고, 질병치료에 필요한 의료비 증가를 억제해야한다. 주요 공공보건사업의 문제점은 공공보건사업을 위한 정책의 일관성 부재, 보건의료정보체계의 미비, 보건사업계획 및 평가의 합리성 결여, 보건요원의 업무수행능력 부족 등으로 보건사업이 비효율적으로 수행되어 자원이 낭비되고 있다. 지방자치제 하에서 광역자치단체는 능동적으로 보건시책을 세우고, 일선 보건요원들의 사없수행능력을 키우는 역할을 담당할 법적 의무가 있으므로 시 \ulcorner도보건과의 역할을 확대하고 기능을 강화해야 한다. 이를 위한 지방자치단체차원의 전략을 제시하면 다음과 같다. 광역자치단체 차원에서는 ${\circled}1$ 보건정책목표의 확립 : 평생건강관리체계 구축과 보건의료서비스 제공체계 효율화로 삶의 질 향상, ${\circled}2$ 보건사업기획 및 평가기능 강화, ${\circled}3$ 보건의료정보체계 및 주민건강/질병발생 감시체계 확립, ${\circled}41$ 보건요원의 훈련강화, ${\circled}5$ 건강증진센터(가칭) 설치 . 보건의료정보관리, 보건요원 훈련, 보건사업 기획 및 평가 업무담당, 그리고 ${\circled}6$ 지역대학과 협력체계 구축 등이다. 기초자치단체 차원에서는 ${\circled}1$ 보건소 기능의 재정립(전체 지역주민의 건강관리, 보건통계자료수집과 관리 및 주민건강/질병발생 감시, 지역보건사업 계획, 수행 및 평가, 안전하고 건강한 환경조성 및 식품위생관리, 취약계층을 위한 일차의료, 의약관리), ${\circled}2$ 보건소 조직 개편 및 민간의료기관과 협력체계 확립, ${\circled}3$ 전문인력 확보 및 인력구성 조정, 그리고 ${\circled}4$ 방문보건사업의 강화 등이다.

스마트워크 투자에 따른 직무 생산성에 관한 연구 - 조직 변화저항과 의사소통을 중심으로- (A Study on the Job Productivity by the Smart Work Investment - Focused on the Organizational Change Resistance and the Communication -)

  • 정병호
    • 경영과정보연구
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    • 제37권3호
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    • pp.83-113
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    • 2018
  • 본 연구의 목적은 변화저항에 따라 달라지는 스마트워크 투자와 직무 성과를 실증적으로 검정하는 것이다. 연구에서는 우선적으로 스마트워크 투자와 생산성 성과 사이의 의사소통 매개 효과를 살펴볼 것이다. 그 다음 스마트워크 투자를 저하시키는 조직 변화저항을 수준별로 분류하여 투자와 생산성의 차이를 확인할 것이다. 스마트워크란 조직 구성원들에게 시간과 장소의 유연성을 제공하고, 업무 생산성을 개선시키는 근무방식을 말한다. 스마트워크의 도입은 조직 내부에 새로운 조직문화, 조직제도, 신기술을 채택하는 것을 의미한다. 조직 의사소통과 협업이 변화된 형태이기 때문에 기존 조직문화와 제도, 기술의 관행에 대한 변화를 요구할 수밖에 없다. 이에 본 연구 방법은 스마트워크 투자에 따른 의사소통의 매개적 효과, 조직저항 수준별로 조절 효과를 검정할 수 있도록 구조방정식 모형을 채택하였다. 구조방정식 모형을 통해서 스마트워크 투자가 의사소통과 조직 생산성에 긍정적 영향을 제공하는지 확인하고자 한다. 또한, 조직 변화 저항을 군집 분석하여 수준별로 구분하여 스마트워크 생산성에 미치는 효과 차이를 확인하였다. 연구결과, 스마트워크 투자로서 조직IT, 조직제도, 조직문화는 의사소통에 중요한 영향자로서 나타났으며, 개인적 성과에 직접적 영향력을 제공한다고 나타났다. 또한, 조직IT와 조직제도, 문화는 의사소통을 매개로 하여 개인 생산성과 조직 생산성에 간접적 영향력도 가진다고 나타났다. 하지만 조직IT와 조직제도의 독립변수는 조직 생산성을 높여주는 직접적 영향력은 없다고 나타났다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 조직IT와 조직제도는 의사소통을 매개로 하면 조직 생산성을 높이는 영향력을 가진다고 간접효과가 나타났다. 다음으로 조직저항의 세 집단의 생산성을 확인한 결과, 집단 간에 스마트워크 생산성 성과의 차이가 있다고 나타났다. 여기서 조직 저항이 낮은 집단은 다른 집단에 비해서 높은 생산성 성과의 영향력을 가진다고 나타났다. 집단별 분석 결과의 함의로는, 스마트워크의 긍정적 성과를 위해서는 우선적으로 조직제도를 개정하고, 다음으로 조직 문화를 형성시키고, 마지막으로 기술 도입을 고도화시키는 것이 중요하다고 나타났다. 본 연구의 이론적 함의로는 스마트워크의 배경을 기반으로 사회기술시스템 이론과 조직제도, 문화이론, 조직 변화저항이론, 직무 생산성 이론을 설명하였고, 기존 사회과학 이론들을 한층 더 구체화시키는 기반을 넓혔다. 실천적 함의로는 스마트워크로 발생될 수 있는 변화저항을 수준별로 관리한다는 것이다. 스마트워크를 급진적으로 투자하기보다는 단계별로 투자하여 생산성 성과를 높여야 한다는 것을 설명하였다. 향후 연구에는 스마트워크 투자를 국내 기업과 공공기관으로 구분하고 조직문화, 제도, 기술, 성과에 대한 차이를 비교 분석할 필요가 있겠다.

기록학의 도입과 기록관리혁신(1999년 이후) (The Introduction of archival science and the renovation of records Management(since 1999))

  • 김익한
    • 기록학연구
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    • 제15호
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    • pp.67-93
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    • 2007
  • 이 글에서는 1999년 기록관리법이 제정된 이후 현재에 이르기까지 기록관리가 어떻게 발전해왔고 기록학 분야의 성장은 어떠하였는지를 다루고 있다. 특히 기록관리와 관련된 주체를 기록생산기관, 기록관리기관, 기록 전문가 집단, 시민사회로 설정하고 각 주체들의 시기별 변화의 특징을 조망하는 데에 역점을 두었다. 그 결과 기록관리기관과 전문가 집단의 성장에도 불구하고 아직 기록생산기관과 시민사회 영역이 아직도 불균형 발전하고 있는 현상을 지적하였다. 기록관리법 제정 시기의 한국의 기록관리는 국가기록원과 전문가 집단의 일부 선도적 인물들에 의해 기록관리가 비약적으로 발전하였다. 그러나 이 시기는 전형적인 엘리트 모델에 의한 성장 시기로, 결과적으로 기록관리법의 제정이라는 역사적 성과를 이루어 냈음에도 불구하고, 각 주체의 기형적 발전 양상이 두드러졌다고 평가된다. 참여정부 시기의 한국의 기록관리는 기록관리 혁신이 강력하게 추진됨으로써 이전 시기와는 구별되는 발전의 양상을 나타내었다. 이를 추동한 힘은 기록관리기관과 기록 전문가 집단의 성장이 보다 보편화 되어 엘리트 모델을 일정 부분 극복할 수 있었던 데서 찾아진다. 특히 대학원 교육을 통해 성장한 전문가 집단이 양질적으로 성장하여 기록관리기관과 전문가 집단이 협력하는 패턴이 정착되기 시작하였다. 국가기록관리 혁신 로드맵이 만들어지고 이것이 실천됨으로써 한국의 기록관리는 점차 안정적이고 지속적인 발전의 단계로 들어설 수 있었다. 그러나 아직도 기록생산기관과 시민사회 영역에서의 기록관리의 발전은 제한적인 수준에 머무르고 있다. 따라서 전문 교육의 정상화와 전문적 교육을 통해 배출되고 각 기관에 배치된 기록연구사들의 역할은 매우 중요한 의미를 지닐 것으로 예상된다. 또한 각급 기관에 기록관리기관을 서둘러 설치하고 기록연구사를 조기 배치하여 기록생산기관의 미발달 상황을 조속히 극복하지 않으면 안될 것이라고 생각된다.

한국 청소년의 약물남용과 비행행위

  • 김성이
    • 한국인구학
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.54-66
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    • 1988
  • I. Introduction Since the 1970's drug abuse among young people has increasingly become a social problem in Korea. In the 1980's, drug abuse, especially glue sniffing, has become the cause of many unfortunated incidents resulting in harm to others as well as the abusers themselves. Taking into consideration of the seriousness of this problem, the Republic of Korea National Red Cross initiated a nation-wide research programme, to understand the present situation and to raise the level of public awareness. The goal of this research was to begin a nation - wide campaign against drug abuse. The research team was composed of the Advisary Committee members and the staff of the Youth Department of the Republic of Korea National Red Cross. The data were collected in February 1988 with the collaboration of the staff and volunteers in the local Chapters. The respondents were allocated nation-wide by the quota sampling method. The questionnaires were distributed to the respondents in three groups :2, 700 to junior and senior high school students, 605 to working youths, and 916 to delinquent youths. A total of 4, 221 questionnaires were collected. II. Characteristics of the Respondents The respondents in each group were selected evenly from rural and urban areas. The general characteristics of the respondents can be described as follow: in case of students, the proportions between male and female respondents, and between senior high school and junior high school students were almost evenly distributed. In case of working youths, the proportion of females (80.5%) was higher than those of the students and the delinquents groups. Delinquent youths were defined as those currently being under custody of the centers for juvenile delinquents. Of this number, 38.8% and 68.2% were junior and senior high school drop-outs respectively. The majority of them (92.6%) were male. As for the family background of the respondents, the proportion of those residing in poverty - stricken areas, and the proportion of those from broken families were higher in case of working youths and delinquent youths than those in case of students. III. Present Patterns of Drug Abuse The following summarizes the presents of drug abuse, as tabulated from the results of the survey. 1. Smoking The percentage of youths who smoke was 36% in the student group, 32% m the working youths group, and 94.4% in the delinquent youths group. 2. Alcohol 50.3% of students, 71.6% of working youths, and 93.3% of delinquent youths has experienced drinking alcohol beverages. 3. Tonic: non - alcoholic, caffeinated beverages popular in Korea and Japan The percentage of those who have used tonic at least once was over 90% in all of the three groups. 4. Sedative About 70% of each group has used sedative with the proportion of working youths use higher than those in other groups. 5. Stimulants Those who have used stimulants comprised around 15% in each group. 6. Tranquilizers Somewhat less than 5% of students and working youths, and 28% of delinquent youths, have used tranquilizers. 7. Hypnotics The users of hypnotics amounted to 0.4% of students, 2.6% of working youths and 7.1% of delinquent youths. 8. Marihuana Those who have used marihuana indicated 0.7% of students, 0.8% of working youths, and 13% of delinquent youths. 9. Glue-sniffing The percentage of glue-sniffing was 3.7%, 5% in the students group and in the youths group respectively, but the proportion was unusually high, at 40.7% in the delinquent youths group. From the results of the survey the present situation of drug abuse in Korea can be summarized as follows: 1. A high percentage of Korean youths have experienced smoking cigarettes and drinking alcoholic beverages. 2. Tonics (non - alcoholic, caffeinated beverages), antipyretic analgesics and stimulants quite regularly used. 3. Tranquilizers, hypnotics, marihuana and glue-sniffing are more widely used among delinquent youths than the other youths. From this fact, there exists a correlation between drug abuse and juvenile delinquency. IV. Time-series Analysis of the First Experience of Drug Abuse and Deviant Behaviour The respoundents were asked when they were first exposed to drugs and when they committed deviant acts. By calculating the average age of each experience, the following pattern was found (See Figure 1). Youths are first exposed to drugs by abuse of tonic(non - alcoholic, caffeinated beverages). At the age of 13, they amoke cigarettes, the use of antipyretic analgesics begins at 14 year old, while at the age of 15, they use tranquilizers, and at 16 hynotics. The period of drug abuse which starts from drinking caffeinated beverages and smoking cigarettes and ends in the use of hypnotics takes about three years. During this period, other delinquent behaviours begin to surface, that is, at the age of 13 when smoking cigarettes begins, the delinquent behaviour pattern starts with truancy. Next, they start taking money from others by using physical force. Prior to the age of 15, they are suspended from school, become hostile to adults, begin running away from home, and start using stimulants and alcohol. Soon they become involved even in glue-sniffing and in the use of marihuana. At the age of 15, they begin to see adult videos and carry weapons. Sexual promiscuity and usage of tranquilizers follows the viewing of adult videos. Consequently, by the time they reach the age of 16, they visit drinking establishments, and are picked up by police for committing delinquent acts. And finally, they come to use hypnotic - type drugs. From the above descriptions, drug abuse can be assumed to have a close correlation with delinquent behaviour. V. Social Factors Related to Drug Abuse As for the Korean youths, glue-sniffing is found to he related to aggressive delinquency, in such cases as run - aways, being picked up by the police, and taking money by force. Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol is found to be related to seeing adult videos and visiting drinking establishments. Hypnotics and marihuana were found to be representive of drugs which are related to degenerational delinquency, irrespective of social delinquency. The social factors connected with these drug abuse are as follows: 1. Individual factors Male students were more heavily involved in the usage of drug than females. Youths who do not attend church were more likely to be involved in drugs than those who attend. 2. Family factors The youths who were displeased with their mothers smoking and those who thought their parents did not love each other, or those whose parents had used drugs without prescription, were more likely to he drug users. 3. School factors Those youths who found school life boring, were unsuccessful in their studies, spend most of their time with friends, feel their teachers smoke too much, those who had a positive perception of their teachers smoking were likely to he drug users. To sum up, drug abusers depend on the influence of their parents, teachers and peers. IV. Reasons for Drug Abuse Korean students have mainly used drugs to release stress (42.8%), to stay awake (19.7%), and because of the easy accessibility of drugs( 16.6%). Other reasons are due to their ignorance of the side effects of the drugs (3.6%), natural curiosity (4.2%), and to increase strength(3.O%). From the above facts, the major reasons for drug abuse among Korean youths are to release stress and to stay awake in order to prepare exams. Furthermore, since drugs are readily available, we can conclude that drug abuse is caused by the school system(such as entrance exams) in Korea. VII. Conclusion Drug usage among Korean youths are relatively less common than those of western youths. In some cases, such as, glue-sniffing and use of stimulants, the pattern of drug abuse is found. Moreover, early drug abuse is evident, and it has a close connection with deviant behaviour, resulting in juvenile delinquency. Drug abuse cannot be attributed to any one social factor. Specifically, drug abuse depends on parents, peers, teachers and other members of the community, and also is influenced by social institutions such as the entrance exam system. Every person and organization concerned with youth must participate collectively in restraining drug abuse. Finally, it is suggested that social agencial working for youth welfare should make every effort to tackle this serious problem confronted by the Korean youths today.

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가족계획과 모자보건 통합을 위한 조산원의 투입효과 분석 -서산지역의 개입연구 평가보고- (An Intervention Study on Integration of Family Planning and Maternal/Infant Care Services in Rural Korea)

  • 방숙;한성현;이정자;안문영;이인숙;김은실;김종호
    • 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.

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