• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2020

Background: It is well known that the prevalence of obesity in Korea is increasing over time, however it is not known how the trends among occupational groups and sex differ in such increasing trends. This study was designed to provide recent trends of obesity among workers in Korea and to identify whether there were differences among occupational groups. Methods: We used data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Phases I to VI (19982015), to analyze trends in the prevalence of obesity in adult Korean workers. Obesity was defined as a body mass index of 25 kg/㎡ or higher. Occupations were classified into 3 groups: (a) nonmanual workers, (b) service/sales workers, and (c) manual workers. Results: During the period of the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Phases I to VI, the prevalence of obesity in male workers increased in all occupations (31.1% to 39.5% in manual workers, 32.3% to 38.2% in service/sales workers, and 25.3% to 39.7% in manual workers). However, female workers did not show any particular tendency toward obesity, except for a significant decrease in the prevalence rate in service/sales workers (30.8% to 23.9%, p for trend = 0.0048). Conclusion: The trends of obesity prevalence by sex and occupation were different. For male manual workers, the prevalence rate increased steadily during the data period, while it decreased steadily in female sales/service workers.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.134-138
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• 2015

Background: Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a major preventable occupational health problem with 250 million people worldwide known to have disabling impairment of moderate to greater severity. The aims of the study are to estimate the prevalence of NIHL in the police force; and study its association with age, sex, duration of service (years), smoking and alcohol habits, use of hearing protective devices, as well as preexisting chronic diseases. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 543 police personnel who had undergone periodic medical examination over a 12-month period. The diagnostic criteria for NIHL were (1) history of occupational noise exposure, (2) bilateral hearing loss, (3) hearing loss of ${\geq}25dBA$ at 4,000 Hz in two consecutive audiograms, and (4) no significant medical history affecting hearing. Severity of NIHL was based on the World Health Organization grading. Results: Males (74.8%) made up the majority of the police force. The mean age for police personnel was $35.55{\pm}9.57years$, and the mean duration of service was $14.75{\pm}9.39years$. Compliance with the usage of hearing protective devices was seen in 64.4%. The prevalence of NIHL in this study population was 34.2%, with a higher prevalence in males (37.7%) than in females (23.9%). The study also showed strong associations between NIHL and male sex (odds ratio, 1.9; P < 0.05), and hypertension (odds ratio, 3.3; P < 0.001). Overall, 93% were found to have mild NIHL, 3.5% had moderate NIHL, and 3.5% had severe NIHL. No police personnel were found to have profound hearing loss. Conclusion: The prevalence of NIHL in this study is high compared to other similar studies among police personnel. This study shows that increasing age, male, presence of hypertension, diabetes, and longer duration of service are significant associated factors for NIHL. Preventative strategies include health surveillance, implementation of a hearing conservation program, and legislation.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.809-844
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• 1995

산업보건관리영역의 범위를 정하고 이를 분류하기 위해 우선적으로 저자들이 정의한 산업보건관리영역의 범위에 따라 분류하고 이에 대하여 설문조사를 실시한 후 의견수렴과정을 거쳐 재분류하였다. 이를 토대로 해방 이후 우리나라의 산업보건관리문헌을 분류하여 연구동향을 파악하고자 정기간행물기사색인에 수록된 21종의 문헌을 분석하였으며 산업보건관리내용에 대한 우선순위 및 향후 산업보건관리 연구 방향을 조명함으로써 앞으로 산업보건관리의 방향설정에 대한 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였으며 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1 대부분의 응답자들이 산업보건을 전공하고(71.6%) 있었고, 대학에서 근무하고 있었으며(68.3%), 남자가 많았고 연령은 40세 이상이었다. 산업보건관리영역의 분류에 대찬 의견으로는 분류가 필요하다는 찬성의견이 70.0%였고 반대의견은 100.0%였다. 2. 응답자들의 의견수렴을 거쳐 재분류한 산업보건 관리영역을 크게 산업보건사법과 산업보건사업을 지지해 주는 산업보건관리체계 및 이를 평가하는데 도움을 주는 여러 가지 방법론들로 구분하였다. 3. 산업보건관리 문헌 총 510편을 연도별로 살펴본 결과 연도별로 서서히 증가하다가 1986년 이후에 급격 히 증가하고 있었으며, 학술지별 분포는 대한산업의학회지(18.2%), 한국의 산업의학(15.1%), 예방의학회지(15.1%) 순으로 나타났다. 연구 내용별로는 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 33편(6.5%)에 지나지 않았으며 산업보건사업에 대한 연구가 477편(93.5%)으로 주를 이루고 있었다. 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 산업보건자원체계에 대한 연구가 15편(45.5%), 산업보건재원조달체계 8편(24.2%), 산업보건관리운영체계 6편(18.2%), 산업보건조직체계 3편(9.1%), 산업보건서비스전달체계 1편 (3.0%)의 순이었으며 산업보건사업에 대한 연구는 질병관리 269편(57.2%),보건관리 116편(24.7%),작업환경관리 85편(18.1%)으로 질병관리에 관한 연구가 가장 많았다. 연구대상별로는 일반근로자 대상이 185편(71.1%)으로 가장 많았으며 여성근로자, 전문직, 서비스근로자 순이었다. 4. 산업보건관리내용의 우선순위에 대한 의견으로는 산업장근로자들에 대한 건강관리, 작업환경관리, 보건교육 등의 산업보건사업이 가장 필요하다고 하였고 다음으로는 산업보건인력에 대한 교육훈련 및 직무내용, 성인병 및 직업병 의뢰체계, 산업보건조직 등에 관한 산업보건의료체계에 관한 분석 등을 순위로 제시하였다. 5. 산업보건관리영역의 향후 연구방향에 대하여 병의 응답자가 48건의 의견을 제시하였으며 산업보건사업에 관한 실제적인 연구가 31.3%로 가장 많았으나 조직, 체계에 대한 연구(27.1%), 정보망구축에 관한 연구(8.3%) 등 산업보건체계에 관한 연구도 필요하다고 하였다. 건강진단에 대한 비용-편익분석 (10.4%), 산업보건사업평가(4.2%), 유해물질폭로평가(2.1%), 노동조건에 관한 연구(6.2%)등 다양한 새로운 분야의 연구에 대한 의견을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 해방 이후 우리나라의 산업보건관리에 관한 연구는 1945년부터 서서히 증가하다가 1986년 이후부터 활발히 진행되어졌고, 대부분의 연구가 산업보건사업에 치중되어 있으며 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 미약함을 알 수 있었다 산업보건사업에 관한 연구의 대부분도 직업병 실태와 건강관련행태 및 실태를 파악하는 수준에 머무르고 있으며 산업보건관리체계의 경우도 대부분 인력의 실태 파악에 그치고 있어 산업장에서 실제로 활용할 수 있는 연구가 절실히 필요하다고 여겨진다. 따라서 우리나라의 현실에 비추어볼 때 산업보건사업에 관한 연구는 계속적으로 활발히 이루어져야 하며, 이와 더불어 산업보건관리체계 및 근로자참여, 경제성분석, 보건사업 후 평가, 연구방법론(역학연구)등의 연구들도 산업보건관리의 중요한 부분으로서 향후 보다 더 적극적으로 연구되어져야 할 것이다.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.78-87
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• 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of occupational health service(OHS) for the aged workers in small workplace. Method: A single group of pretest-posttest design was used. 608 aged workers of 253 small workplace who had one out of 4 risk factors were randomly selected. The OHS consisted of education, medical checkup, and counseling. Also information was provided by a visiting nurse 4-5 times every 4-5 weeks from March to November, 2009. The data were collected by interview, self report, and monitored by a nurse. Results: The OHS led to significant reduction of the mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures of 6.46mmHg and 5.22mmHg, each respectively. The mean total cholesterol, glucose, and BMI were also reduced significantly by 6.35mg/dL, 5.91mg/dL, and 0.31kg/$m^2$. And stages of health behavioral change were moved from 1,2,3 stages to 4,5 stages significantly. Conclusion: The OHS showed an effective intervention to improve the aged workers' health in the small workplaces. Therefore, The OHS by visiting a nurse can be a good strategy to extend to small & medium-sized companies having no in-site health manager.

• 대한추나의학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.125-139
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• 2002

Objectives : The purpose of this study is to review and summarize about occupational medicine and to applicate the occupational medicine to oriental medicine. Methods : We investigated several books, articles and related internet sites to know occupational medicine's present conditions in Korea and other countries, and researched the plan on oriental medical participation in the industrial health. Results and Conclusion : The conclusions are as follows, 1. Recent years, industrialization has changed working environment and health condition in workplace, so industrial health service has became important part. 2. Occupational medicine has the purpose of protection. prevention, fitness, health management, medical treatment. rehabilitation, and primary medical service. The range of occupational medicine is enlarged mental, social good health and social, economical production capacity recently. 3. After research each country's occupational medicine, we can know the purpose is same, but the system and work contents are different one another. 4. Oriental medical participation in the industrial health has various benefits, satisfaction of workers, efficiency of cost, and increasing rate of medical treatment through the western and oriental medical cooperation.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.527-530
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• 2019

The increasing prevalence of inactivity and obesity, along with aging, has implications on work capacity of labor force. This study reports the relationships between activity level and BMI by age with objectively measured physical workload. Data were examined from a sample of 19 481 Finnish employees using an estimate of minute-to-minute oxygen consumption based on R-R interval recordings. The mean estimated %VO₂max during the working day was 12.1 (±3.6) and 15.1 (±4.5)% for men and women, respectively. Based on a linear model, the mean %VO₂max increased by 1.5%-unit per 10-year increase in age, by 2.1%-unit per 5 kg/㎡ increase in BMI, and decreased by 1.6%-unit if improving physical activity class by two (p < 0.001 for all). Overweight and obesity, together with inactivity, notably increases workload throughout the career, even though at young adulthood, the daily workload is almost the same for each person regardless of the BMI, activity level, or gender. This study highlights the importance of regular physical activity and normal weight in protecting the worker from excessive physical (cardiovascular) workload during the whole working career.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.110-119
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• 2001

This study was performed to review applying the case management to the occupational health nursing as a cost-effective way for injured workers. The case management for injured workers is a comprehensive management system, which is composed of planning and implementing in cooperation with employee, employee' family, medical service provider team, employer and case manager, to provide high quality health services to employee and their family. The case management process for injured workers is similar to the nursing process. It thus appears that the occupational health nurse is best personnel to perform the role of case manager for injured workers in workplace. As a case manager in workplace. the occupational health nurse would be expected to get both knowledge and experiences, to get trusted from the employee and employer, and to expand professional domain in changing health care environment.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.71-74
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• 2013

Here, we present a case of lung cancer in a 48-year-old male horse trainer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such case report to include an exposure assessment of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) as a quartz. The trainer had no family history of lung cancer. Although he had a 15 pack/year cigarette-smoking history, he had stopped smoking 12 years prior to his diagnosis. For the past 23 years, he had performed longeing, and trained 7-12 horses per day on longeing arena surfaces covered by recycled sands, the same surfaces used in race tracks. We investigated his workplace RCS exposure, and found it to be the likely cause of his lung cancer. The 8-hour time weight average range of RCS was 0.020 to $0.086mg/m^3$ in the longeing arena. Horse trainers are exposed to RCS from the sand in longeing arenas, and the exposure level is high enough to have epidemiological ramifications for the occupational risk of lung cancer.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.34-54
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• 1995

Occupational health services in Korea have been operated as dual types: one is operated by occupational health care manager and the other is health care agency without their own personnel. The performance of occupational health service should be different due to the variety of characteristics of health care manager and workplace, qualification of health care manager. This study is to analyze performance of occupational health care services with a particular consideration of job, based on comparing those two types of health care management to show on the basic data for the settlement of more qualitative. health care management system at workplace. For this study, total 391 places in Seoul and Inchon city area: 154 places (39.4%) managed by designated. health care manager and 237 places (60.6%) by the agency with their commission are selected as research samples. Tools for data collection are questionnares have been investigated during the period of 20 September 1993-20 December 1993. Those data are compared with percentiles, mean, standard deviation due to the characterstics of each variable and analyzed for impacting factors with relation to the using multiple regression analysis using SPSS PC program, especially using t -test method in order to compare each type of health care management. Conclusions observed from the tests and each comparison could be summerized as follows : 1. Occupational health care have been accomplished at workplaces with designated people than with agencies people, and coverage rate of the occupational health care services has differences, due to management types. The reason of these results is due to visit only one or two times monthly by the agencies, while their own health care manager obsess, at the workplaces all the times. 2. The common sickness management is the most accomplished item in health care area of occupational health care services, while the preventive care and control for the workers who have serious health problems are insufficient in workers health care area. 3. An insufficient accomplishment of overall health education has been shown because it is difficult to perform health education due to almost no chance of the direct introduction at workplaces. Therefore a strong support system for making and supplying the media is necessary in order to activate indirect health education by means of media. 4. Because health care managers and the agencies managers where take the workplaces for this study are almost nurses who have been comparatively high work site rounding rate about an environmental management at the workplaces, that non-profession can also do it, the activities about the professional area not enough. Therefore, an appropriate referral system should be established in order to complement professional area. 5. Two factors which have an effect on the coverage rate of occupational health care services are : one is those from the workplaces such as type of services, the number of workers, the number of harzadous factors and safety & health committee, the other from health care organization about whether there is its own manager or not.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.235-246
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• 2020

Purpose: In Korea, the proportion of female workers among occupational injury is steadily increasing. The purpose of this study was to identify the workplace risk factors that threaten the safety and health of the female workers. Methods: Qualitative study was conducted, using focus group interview. Data were collected from five focus groups of eighteen female workers who were working in the manufacturing, health service, and educational service industries. Results: The seven themes of occupational safety and health risks of women workers are as follows: 1) Workplace with various risks; 2) Sliding, falling, burning, and cutting accidents; 3) Chronically lasting musculoskeletal symptoms; 4) Chemicals that may be harmful to workers; 5) Unprotected infectious disease; 6) Psychological safety accidents(Relationship conflict and emotional labor); 7) Loud, hot, stuffy, scary, and tired. Conclusion: The Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) Act should be rearranged gender sensitively and women's participation in the OSH decision-making process should be guaranteed. OSH education should be properly implemented in the field, and support should be provided for women workers in small businesses. A supportive organizational culture for marriage, pregnancy and childbirth should be established, and the working environment should be provided safely, taking into account gender differences.