Views of Public Dental Hygienist about Oral Health Hub Center - In the Area Not Implemented

구강보건센터 미설치 보건소 치과위생사의 구강보건센터 설치 및 운영에 관한 견해

  • Kim, Kyung-Mi (Department of Dental Hygiene, Chungcheong University) ;
  • Yoo, Eun-Mi (Department of Dental Hygiene, Gangdong College) ;
  • Heo, Sun-Soo (Cheoin-gu Health Center) ;
  • Hwang, Soo-Jeong (Department of Dental Hygiene, College of Medical Science, Konyang University)
  • 김경미 (충청대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 유은미 (강동대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 허선수 (용인시 처인구보건소) ;
  • 황수정 (건양대학교 의과학대학 치위생학과)
  • Published : 2012.12.31

Abstract

Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare started to implement oral health hub center to provide oral health preventive program and dental treatment to public, especially dental vulnerable class in 2006. But, there is no applicant area to implement it regardless of national budget arrangement in 2012. This study is aimed to investigate the reason not to be implemented and requirements of implementation. 293 among 1,000 public dental hygienists in the area where have not implemented oral health hub center were surveyed in Korea from April to July in 2012 through convenience sampling. The questionnaire consisted of the reason why oral health hub center have not been implemented, the requirement of implementation, duty area and duty position et al. After removal of insufficient responses, 217 questionnaires were analyzed by t-test and ANOVA using SPSS 20.0. The reason why oral health hub center have not been implemented were deficiency of the priority list as compared with other health program (72.4%), space insufficiency (71.4%), regional budget insufficiency (70.5%), will insufficiency of oral health promotion (70.5%) and manpower insufficiency (62.7%). The first requirement of implementation were space expansion and regional budget expansion, followed by reduction of record-originated and administrative tasks, understanding on oral health program of higher ranking public officials in health center, manpower expansion, reduction of other tasks than oral health program and volunteer source expansion. Budget insufficiency and manpower insufficiency in Metropolis were ranked higher than other area (p<0.05). The group not to discuss oral health hub center graded each reason not to be implemented significantly higher than the other group (p<0.05). We suggested that to promote the importance of public oral health program be needed to public and higher ranking public officials to implement oral health hub center. In addition, we insisted that more dental manpower and budget be needed for reduction of oral health inequity in metropolis.

본 연구는 구강보건센터 미설치 지역의 보건소 치과위생사를 대상으로 2012년 4월부터 7월까지 구강보건센터 미설치 이유와 설치 시 필요사항에 대해 설문조사를 실시하고 총 293부를 수거하였다. 그 중 주요 문항에 대한 응답이 불충분한 87부를 제외하고 217부를 분석하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 구강보건센터 미설치 이유는 우선순위부족(72.4%), 공간부족(71.4%), 예산부족 (70.5%), 구강보건사업에 관한 의지부족(70.5%), 인력부족(62.7%) 순으로 나타났다. 2. 구강보건센터 설치, 운영 시 필요사항은 공간확충, 예산확충, 실적위주 사업과 형식적 행정업무의 감소, 구강보건사업에 대한 기관장 또는 상급자의 이해, 인력확충, 구강보건센터 이외의 과중한 업무감소, 지역사회 민간자원 활용확충, 구강보건사업 종류의 간결화, 사업지침의 명확성, 대상자별 프로그램 개발, 활용 가능 매체 제작, 신규 프로그램개발, 유관기관과의 협력 체계 강화, 보건소 내 타부서와의 연계성 강화, 직무교육 기회제공 순으로 조사되었다. 3. 구강보건센터 미설치 이유로 예산부족과 인력부족 항목에서 특별 광역시 지역이 시 군지역에 비해 더 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 4. 구강보건센터 설치를 논의하지 않은 집단은 논의한 집단에 비해 구강보건센터 미설치 이유의 모든 항목에서 더 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 따라서, 구강보건센터 설치의 확대를 위해서는 구강보건사업의 중요성을 지역주민과 관련 기관장, 상급자 및 보건소 내 타 사업 인력에게 홍보하여 구강보건사업의 우선순위를 높여야 하며 특별 광역시 지역 또한 건강불평등 해소를 위해 구강보건사업이 수행될 수 있는 충분한 예산과 인력이 지원되어야 한다.

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