• 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.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.211-220
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• 2005

서울, 경기, 인천 지역을 중심으로 치과코디네이터가 근무하는 치과병 의원 선정하여 현직 치과코디네이터들을 대상으로 치과코디네이터의 업무수행 정도와 인식도를 조사하여, 보다 효율적인 인력활용 방안을 마련하는 기초를 제공하고자 2005년 5월 1일부터 8월 8일까지 설문지를 통하여 자료를 수집한 후 회수된 108부를 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 응답한 치과코디네이터들의 치과근무기간은 5년 이상이 43.5%, 2년 미만이 19.5%, 3년 이상 5년 미만이 19.4%의 순으로 나타났고, 치과코디네이터로서의 업무기간은 2년 미만이 39.8%, 2년 이상 3년 미만과 5년 이상이 각 19.4%의 순으로 나타났다. 그리고 현재 불리워지는 명칭으로는 실장(팀장)이 38%, 코디네이터가 30.6%이었으며, 치과코디네이터로 담당하는 세부 업무로는 리셉션이 30.6%로 가장 높았고, 소속된 부서는 진료지원팀이 57.4%로 가장 높게 나타났다. 2. 교육관련 사항으로는 치과코디네이터가 되기 위해 가장 많이 교육을 받은 기관으로는 45.4%가 사설기관이고, 응답자의 73.1%가 공인된 치과코디네이터 자격시험이 필요하다고 응답하였다. 또한 자격인정을 위한 적절한 공인기관으로는 중앙부처라고 응답한 율이 43.5%로 가장 높았고, 응답자의 70.8%는 이수한 업무교육 내용이 직무수행에 적합했다고 응답하였다. 치과코디네이터 업무능력 향상을 위한 지속교육 필요 여부는 96.3%가 "예"라고 응답하였고, 그 이유는 능력향상을 위해서가 63.9%, 체계적인 교육을 위해서가 22.2였다. 교육비 부담은 근무기관에서 총 교육비의 일정액 보조가 29.6%, 전액 자비 부담이 25.9%였다. 치과코디네이터 교육과정 중 필수 이수항목에서는 의료서비스 마케팅이 66.7%, 치과코디네이터 이론과 실무가 65.7%, 치과의료기초 57.4%의 순이었고, 보완을 희망하는 교육항목은 치과의료서비스 마케팅이 46.3%, 건강보험실무가 35.2%였다. 3. 치과코디네이터로서 현재 수행하는 업무는 고객관리 분야에서는 예약관리가 88.9%, 자기관리 분야에서는 서비스기본매너 갖추기가 87.9%, 원무관리 분야에서는 수납이 81.3%로 높게 나타났다. 4. 치과코디네이터의 수행업무에 대한 인식으로는 '현재 수행하고 있는 직종에 자부심을 가지고 있다($3.99{\pm}0.76$)', '치과코디네이터 업무는 경영 기여도가 높다고 생각한다($3.92{\pm}0.70$)', '내가 수행하는 업무는 전체 치과병 의원 업무에서 차지하는 비중이 크다($3.91{\pm}0.84$)', '나는 직원들과 직급에 관계없이 잘 지낸다($3.86{\pm}0.74$)', '업무를 통하여 환자의 구강건강 증진에 많은 도움이 되고 있다고 생각한다($3.76{\pm}0.75$)', '내 직업은 미래 전망이 밝다($3.74{\pm}0.86$)' 순으로 높게 나타났다. 5. 치과코디네이터의 연령별로 인식을 살펴보면 대체적으로 모든 항목에서 연령이 높을수록 업무에 대한 인식도가 높은 것으로 나타났고, '내가 수행하는 업무는 전체 치과병 의원업무 차지하는 비중이 크다'(P < 0.001), '수행하는 업무에 대하여 경영자의 인정과 신뢰를 받는다'(P < 0.01), '현재 수행하고 있는 직종에 자부심을 가지고 있다', '내 직업에 대한 사회적 인지도가 높다', '스텝들은 치과코디네이터들이 하는 일에 대해 이해하고 인정한다', '치과의사들은 치과코디네이터들이 하는 일에 대해 이해하고 인정한다', '현재 불리워지는 직명에 만족한다', '내 직업은 나이의 제한을 받지 않는다고 생각한다', '치과 코디네이터 업무는 경영 기여도가 높다고 생각한다'(P < 0.05)의 항목에서는 연령별로 통계적 유의성이 유의한 차이를 보였다. 6. 치과코디네이터의 직종별로 업무에 대한 인식을 살펴보면 대부분의 항목에서 치과위생사, 간호조무사, 기타 순으로 업무에 대한 만족도가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 '업무를 수행함에 있어서 업무관련 결정을 내가 하고 있다'(P < 0.001), ' 내가 수행하는 업무는 전체 병원업무에서 차지하는 비중이 크다', '내 업무는 나의 능력을 향상시켜 준다', '업무를 통하여 환자의 구강건강건강 증진에 많은 도움이 되고 있다고 생각한다', '현재 받고 있는 보수에 만족한다', '스텝들은 치과코디네이터들이 하는 일에 대해 이해하고 인정한다'(P < 0.01), '내 직업에 대한 사회적 인지도가 높다', '업무 수행시 스텝과의 갈등이 없다', '치과병 의원에서는 치과코디네이터의 능력향상을 위한 자기개발 기회를 주고 있다'(P < 0.05)의 항목에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다.