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KMID : 0381319770160040133
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
1977 Volume.16 No. 4 p.133 ~ p.144
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A Study on the Attitude of the Industrial Health Assistants towars Family Planning Programs in Industry
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Abstract
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The Korean family planning program has hitherto placed emphasis mainly on women over 30 years of age with three or more children and services for family planning were made available through a net-work of country and township health centers. Family planning acceptors in the Republic account for approximately 40％ of eligible couples but it has been noted that the "hard core" levels have been reached and that considerably intensified efforts are needed if the Government´s target of a natural growth rate of 1.3％ by 1981 is to be achieved. The position has been aggravated by the fact that a discernible increase has been noted in urban birth-rates. Further, it is realised that the products of the post-war babyboom are now ready to make an impact on fertility rates.
It is felt strongly that the Government´s goals will not be attained unless the national family planning program is enlarged to motivational program covering both men and women.
In that sence, as in other developing countries, the workers in the organized industrial sector present a special target group with whom significant results could be possible within a relatively short space of time and with comparatively small inputs of resources.
A further significant and encouraging feature of the industrial scene in Korea is that there has already been an industrial health service program controled by the Office of Labor Affairs.
Every plant which has more than 50 workers should have at least one full-time or parttime industrial health physician and one full-time industrial health assistant who are supposed to do various industrial health matters for the workers in the plants.
This study was planned to see the possibility of utilization of the industrial health assistants as the family planning workers in industry by looking at their attitudes towards family planning program in industry. As we all know, the family planning program should be integrated with health program to see the successful results. Therefore, utilization of those industrial health workers for the family planning industry is most desirable.
For this study, 1234 industrial health workers who attended the annual continuing education program provided by the Korean Industrial Health Association at the request of the Office of Labor Affairs were asked to answer to several questions appcared on the predisigned questionnaire.
Major findings obtained through analysis of their answers are as follows;
1. General characteristics of the respondents.
69.2％ of the respondents were female and those who were in the age group of under 25 occupied 67.0％ of all. 77.7％ of the respondents were single and high school graduates were 73.9％ of all.
2. Type and scale of the industries.
65.6％ of the respondents were from manufacturing industries and those who came from the industries which has 100-499 workers occupied 54.7％ of all.
3. Knowledge about the existence of national family planning program in industry.
83.4％ of the respondents have ever heard of existence of the family planning programs in industry in Korea but 16.4％ of all respondents haven´t still heard of it.
4. Experience of having family planning program in industry.
32.1％ of the respondents remembered that they had had some type of family planning programs in their plants while 58.8％ said that they had never had those programs.
5. Attitude towards family planning program in industry.
81.2％ of the respondents stated that the family planning program in industry was desirable.
6. Qualification of family planning worker in industry.
46.0％ of the respondents picked the industrila health assistants as the best person for the family planning programs in industry while 37.8％ chose the industrial health physicians.
Those who personally wanted to take the job for family planning in industry were 74.2％. Among them, 50.4％ stated that they would do the job regardless provision of extra-payment but the rest (23.8％) wanted extra-payment for the job.
7. Priority of contents for the family planning program in industry.
55.6％ of the respondents wanted " sex education" be put as the first priority in the contents of the program while 44.5％ chose " teaching practical contraceptive methods".
8. Sterilization program in industry.
Those who agreed the provision of sterilization program in industry were 62.9％.
9. Cost for the family planning program in industry.
Half (50％) of the respondents stated that the cost for the program should come from the government while 19.1％ of all insisted that the employers and the workers themselves should equally share the cost.
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