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KMID : 0358119960220020035
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Journal of the Korean Public Health Association
1996 Volume.22 No. 2 p.35 ~ p.48
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Results of Health Examination for Workers at Sanitary Facilities and their Attitude toward the Examination
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이영선/Lee, Yong Seon
박영진/김기순/이철갑/Park, Young Jin/Kim, Ki Soon/Lee, Chul Gab
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Abstract
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To find the general characteristics of the workers at sanitary facilities. knowledge and attitude toward the health examination and the results of clinical laboratory tests, a questionnaire survey was made for 176 owners of and 344 employees at sanitary facilities including restaurants, beer _halls, tea rooms. barber-shops, food handling shops and etc., when they came to the health center for periodic health examination during the period between February 1st to February 29th, 1996.
1. While 29.5% of owners were male and 70.5% of owners were female, 8.7% of employees were male and 91.3%´ of employees were female. While 83.5% of owners were between 30 and 49 years old, the age of 64.8´/´o employees were under 30. 60.8% of owners and 75.3% of employees received high school or college education. While 46.0% of owners managed restaurants, 49.0% of employees were working at beer halls.
2. Health check-up showed that 8.9% of subjects were abnormal; 4.2% showed positive VDRL test, 3.9% showed positive HBsAg and 1.0% showed positive finding at indirect chest X-ray film. Neither positive enteric pathologic bacteria from stool examination nor positive AIDS tests appeared.
3. For the cost of legal health check-up. 69.5% answered that the cost was appropriate and 27.8% answered that the cost wa- inexpensive. 2.7% of respondents thought it was expensive. 4. While 56.5% of respondents knew the legal time interval for health check-up and 45.5% responded that they knew the item of health check-up, 42.7% can´t write any item of health check-up and 25.2!. can write only 1 2 items of health check-up among five essential items.
5. While 198 persons(3&I%) answered that they were healthy, the rest thought that they had some abnormal condition.
6. While 78.3% of respondents hoped more health check up in addition to their legal health examinations, the rest did not hope additional tests. While 77.7% of the respondents with normal finding from legal health check-up hoped additional examinations, 85.1% of the respondents with abnormal finding hoped additional examinations. 44 mile(62.Q"/ among persons hoped for additional tests) asked tests for liver function test, 143 female(42_5`%) hoped uterine cancer examination.
7. While 86.7% of respondents never experienced comprehensive health check-up. -11.3"o of respondents hoped to be examined comprehensively as soon as possible.
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