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KMID : 0378019770200060111
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New Medical Journal
1977 Volume.20 No. 6 p.111 ~ p.116
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A Study of Home-visiting Services by Front-Line Health Workers
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Abstract
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To promote community health services, home-visits were made by 5 front-line health workers
working at Yonhee Community Health Center. This study is to analyze the daily reports on their activities during home-visits from July to December, 1976, for 6 months, in order to find out what kinds of health problems, services and population have been served through home-visits and to explore the problems related to the activities by the front-line health workers. Families
.received home-visits were 329, and family members served were 415. The activities during home visits were classified into 4 different areas such as ①personal physical care, ②health education, ③health counseling and advice, and ④observation and assessment of the health problems.
The findings are:
1) The infants and children represented 48.8% of the total population served. The next was housewives (36.2%)
2) Health counseling (38.2%), health education (36.8%) were the major services rendered by the workers during their home-visits.
3) Health problems dealt by the workers were unfinished vaccination (23.4%), family planning (15.9%), and dermatologic disorders (15.2%).
4) In sum, more than 50% of total health problems dealt by the workers were concerning for maternal and child health.
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