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KMID : 0379320020270020035
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Korean Journal of Rural Medicine
2002 Volume.27 No. 2 p.35 ~ p.54
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Task Status of Dental Hygienists of Health Centers and Subcenters
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Eun Jong-Young
Kam Sin
Lim Ji-Seun
Yang Jin-Hoon
Kim Jong-Yeon
Han Chang-Hyun
Yoo Yoon-Sun
Cha Byung-Jun
Song Keun-Bae
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Abstract
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This study was performed to investigate the task status and performance improvement plan of dental hygienists of Health Centers and Subcenters. The Data collected by self-administered Questionnaire survey of 203 dental hygienists of Health Centers and Subcnters located in Gyeongsangbuk-do were analyzed. The major results are as follows: For the degree of satisfaction in tasks, 73.9% of dental hygienists of Health Centers and Subcenters felt proud, 52.2% felt overwork, 32.0% hoped transferring to other worksite and the major reason of transferring was lack of promotion opportunity in officials of dental hygiene department. Dental hygienists received job education in addition continuous job education in last 3 years were 47.3%, 19.2% of dental hygienists performed the special dental health program for residents in last 3years. Almost half(53.79~6) of dental hygienists replied that dental hygienists who were not engaged in dental health tasks should be engaged in dental health tasks. The major dental hygienic tasks performed by dental hygienic officials were support for dental treatrnent(11 .6%). Dental hygienic officials answered that dental health tasks, school dental health program, vertical dental health program should be conducted as important tasks in order. And they replied that the most serious problem of dental hygienic tasks was not conducting dental health affairs due to ‘lack of dental doctor’(40.9%), ‘lack of concern for dental health tasks’(26.4%), and ‘lack of budget and personnels for dental tasks’(l9.0%), and the most important thing to improve dental hygienic tasks was ‘posting dental hygienists in ministry of health and welfare(MQHW) and province’, ‘securing of budget and personnels for dental health tasks’.
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KEYWORD
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Task status, Dental hygienists, Health centers and subcenters
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