• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.316-322
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the opinions of non-health science college students of Korean dental hygienists in the category of medical personnel. A self-reported questionnaire was conducted on 265 non-health science major students without information about a health and medical service personnel. The collected data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, descriptive statistics, chi squared and multinomial logistic regression analysis. About 40% of the respondents answered that dental hygienists should be medical personnel, while 17.7% think that they should not distinguish health and medical service personnel between medical personnel and medical service technologist. As the respondents' oral health management ability improved, they approves the Korean dental hygienists in the category of medical personnel(p=.022). As the longer the period of dental regular visits, they answered that dental hygienists should be medical service technologist. Presence or absence of dental regular visits, scaling experience, oral health education did not no significant difference on the opinions of Korean dental hygienists in the category of medical personnel of the pros and cons. This study can be used as a basic data for establishing the policy of medical personnel for dental hygienists.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.2628-2638
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine knowledge, attitude, and altruism on blood donation and influential factors in regard to its experience. Data were collected through questionnaires with a convenience sample of 311 healthcare providers. Subjects with blood donation experience accounted for 63.3%. In both nurses and laboratory technologist, the rate of blood donation in male group has higher than that of female group. There were differences in the knowledge of blood donation dependent upon the type of occupation of healthcare providers and the higher age and the longer period of career experience proved to be the significant factor for the level of altruism. The study suggests that more practical, concrete strategies should be identified to participate in blood donation. The further relevant variables need to be investigated since the most determinant motivator for blood donation among healthcare providers was the responsibility to help others.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.143-174
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• 2019

Our Constitution obliges the state to protect the health of the people, and the Medical Law, which embodied Constitution, sets out in detail the matters related to open the medical institution, and one of them is to prohibit the operation of multiple medical institutions. By the way, virtually multiple medical institutions could be opened and operated because the Supreme Court had interpreted that several medical institutions could be opened if medical activities were not performed directly at the additional medical institution which was opened under the another doctor's license. However, some health care providers opened the several medical institutions with another doctor's license for the purpose of the maximization of profit, and did illegal medical cares like the unfair luring of patients, over-treatment, and commission treatment. Also, realistic problems such as the infringed health rights have arisen. Accordingly, lawmakers had come to amend the Medical Law to readjust the system of opening for medical institution so that medical personnel could not open or operate more than one medical institution for any reason. For this reason, the Constitutional Court recently declared a constitutional decision through a long period of in-depth deliberation because the constitutional petition and the adjudication on the constitutionality of statutes had been filed on whether Article 33 paragraph 8 of the revised medical law is unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court acknowledged the "justice of purpose" in view of the importance of public medical institutions, of the prevention from seduction of for-profit patients and from over-treatment, and of the fact that health care should not be the object of commercial transactions. Given the risk that medical personnel might be subject to outside capital, the concern that the holder of the medical institution's opening certificate and the actual operator may be separated, the principle that the human body and life should not be just a means, and the current system's inability to identify over-treatment, it also acknowledged the 'minimum infringement'. Furthermore, The Constitutional Court judged it is constitutional in compliance with the principle of restricting fundamental rights, such as 'balance of legal interests'. In this regard, legislative complements are needed in order to effectively prevent the for-profit management and the over-treatment the Constitutional Court is concerned about. In this regard, consumer groups actively support the need for legislation, and health care providers groups also agree on the need for legislation. Therefore, the legislators should respect the recent Constitutional Court's decision and in the near future complete the complementary legislation to reflect the people's interests.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.149-176
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• 2022

South Korean law strictly prohibits engagement in medical activities by non-medical practitioners. In the country, tattooing is classified as a medical practice, and non-medical practitioners who engage in it are penalized because they are unauthorized to carry out this procedure. In reality, however, people rarely seek tattooing services from medical personnel. Arguing that their freedom of job selection is violated, non-medical personnel who make a living as tattoo artists reject the characterization of the procedure as a form of medical treatment and demand the decriminalization of tattooing by non-medical practitioners. Nevertheless, tattooing can cause health- and hygiene-related dangers when it is not performed by medical professionals because it involves penetration into the skin using needles. Hence, stringent management is necessary for infection prevention. The gap between reality and the law gives rise to the need for proactive thinking about the institutionalization of tattoo practice by non-medical personnel. Policymakers should reflect on the fact that only minimal tattooing services are currently performed by medical staff while also accounting for health and safety. On this basis, this study examined tattoo-related legislation in South Korea to determine whether the procedure corresponds to medical practice and identify ways to solve problems that occur from the perspective of health care. As a response that promotes safety and reflects reality, this research proposed a three-phase approach.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.141-151
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• 1972

거제(巨濟) 지역사회(地域社會) 개발(開發) 보건원(保健院)이 목적하는 바대로 사업이 진전되고 있는지, 바람직한 지역사회의학 사업을 수행하고 있는지를 평가하는 일은 필요하다고 생각한다. 이러한 평가의 하나로서 프로젝트에 영향력을 줄 수 있는 세 그룹 즉 지역사회의 유지, 프로젝트를 이용하는 주민 그리고 의료문제에 관심이 있는 사람들 중 프로젝트에 다녀간 일이 있는 사람에 대해서 그들이 이 사업에 대해 이해하고 있는 바 또는 태도 등을 알아 보았다. 거제 지역사회 개발 보건원에 대한 반응은 긍정적이었다. 즉 저렴한 수가로 농촌 보건사업을 하고 있고, 간단한 치료사업과 예방의학 사업을 하고 있으며, 한국에서 지역사회의학의 교육을 발전시키는 데 자극적인 역할을 하고 아울러 지역사회의 개발을 위한 자극을 주었다고 하였다. 문제점으로 지적된 것은 위치가 거제군 전체의 의료를 위해서는 적합하지 못하며, 국내 의료인이나 지역주민의 참여가 불충분하였고, 보건소 사업과의 협조가 덜 이루어지고 있다는 점 등이었다. 한편 사업의 목적이나 계획 및 운영면이 약하지 않은가 하는 것도 우려하였다.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.347-360
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• 2022

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the risk perception, safety climate and preventive behaviors of COVID-19 infections, and to verify the factors influencing the adoption of preventive behaviors by health care workers. Methods: A mixed-method approach was used based on a survey carried out in a general hospital. Quantitative data (N=181) were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using multiple regression. Qualitative data (N=8) were collected through individual interviews and analyzed through Colaizzi's phenomological research method. Results: The factors influencing adoption of preventive behaviors by health care workers were safety climate (β=.41, p<.001), education (β=-.20, p=.025), work unit (β=-.16, p=.032), and risk perception (β=.15, p=.020). The explanatory power was 28.3%, and they have shown that these health care workers felt 'the threat of a pandemic like a battlefield', experienced 'struggle with quarantine rules' and realized 'the reality of infection control and the reorganization for change'. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that to increase the adoption of infection control preventive behaviors by health care workers when faced with new infectious diseases in the future, it is necessary to establish organizational support and a safe climate. This study confirms the need for preemptive support and education.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.25 no.2 s.135
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• pp.72-79
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• 1986

The present health system with its emphasis on the patient in hospital and with specialized medical services, is not equipped to provide health maintenance and preventive care to society. Community generated medical facilities to provide preventive and lo

• 보건세계
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• v.55 no.5
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• pp.52-55
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• 2008

결핵은 인류의 역사와 함께한 오래된 질병이다. 과거 우리나라의 결핵유병률은 5%에 이를 정도로 심각하였으나 국가결핵관리를 통해 급격하게 유병률이 낮아졌는데, 이에 따라 비결핵성 항산균에 의한 감염이 상대적으로 증가하고 있다. 강력한 결핵관리사업으로 의료인은 물론 일반인들도 결핵에 관해 많은 지식을 갖고있으나, 비결핵성 항산균에 대한 인식수준은 그리 높지 못하다. 이 글에서는 얼마 전 사회적으로 문제가 되었던 한의원 집단발병 사건을 중심으로 비결핵성 항산균에 대해서 설명하고자 한다.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.57-67
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• 2014

Because telemedicine is also the medical care, it is limited by law to allow medical personnel only physician because there would cause a risk to health and hygiene. Since the work dealing with the life and honor the human body involving a small mistake, it may be difficult to recover the damages can be recovered even if the telemedicine. Therefore, systematically it is to allow remote medical care only proven national healthcare only clinical practice starting with basic medical medicine, and received training as a systematic study of the body and life of humans. The patient information could get far away in the distance to provide medical information and professional advice to the remote system, even if you can not be reached due to several issues such as the number of differences that occur in time. We Mentioned various opinions on regulatory issues and information gathered for the development of the medical industry in this respect.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.231-240
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• 2007

The hospital setting provides many opportunities for health promotion. There are many health professionals including physicians, nurses, medical technicians who have close contact with patients and their family. Health professionals are very influential to arouse the awareness about health and illness, and to motivate to change lifestyle among patients. Thus health professionals are most effective and important human resources for health education for patients to improve recovery rates and to promote health. In spite of the importance of health professionals' role in health promotion, the Korean government has provided little support for their health education for patients. Most of the health professionals have not learned about health education theories and skills, and have little attention to educate patients to change their lifestyle. Also the health professionals themselves have relatively poor lifestyle compared with advanced western countries. To improve health education for patients and their family, following strategies and policies should be considered: reinforcing curriculum for health education in college and training course, providing practical incentives for patient education, capacity building for health education and developing guideline for patient education, training health educators, networking and collaborating between community health center and hospitals, promoting the importance of health education among patients, researching and developing health education theory and practice including cost-benefit of health education.