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KMID : 0381319870260040096
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
1987 Volume.26 No. 4 p.96 ~ p.103
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A Study on the Occupational Health Manpower in Korea
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이세훈/Lee, Se-Hoon
이원철/박정일/맹광호/Lee, Won Chul/Park, Chung Yill/Meng, Kwang-Ho
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Abstract
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Korea is one of the rapidly industrializing country in the world. Because workers are the main contributors of industrial development, their health is an essential factor in the national prosperty. There were 9.926 manufactures, hiring not less than 50 workers in Korea, at December 31, 1985 which had to employ occupational health personnel legally. Authors investigated the demand and supply of occupational physician, occupational health assistant and industrial hygienist according to Occupational Safety and Health Low on the date of December 31, 1985. The investigted data were come from Ministry of Labor and Korean Industrial Health Association.
The deficit rate of occupational physician, occupational health assistant and industrial hygienist were 10.1％, 8.0％ and 36.2％ respectively, and the rate was higher in smal-scale industry than in large-scale industry. Most of employed occupational physicians worked as part-time job (95.4％) and only 1.5％ of occupational physicians worked as full-time job. Thirty-six percent of the manufactures hiring not less than 300 workers employed others than registered nurse, viz., legally unqualified person. The completion rate of occupational health job training at the Korean Industrial Health Association By the law among occupational physicians, occupational health assistant and industrial hygienists were 14.8％, 45.8％ and 90.6％.
In the view points of above results, there were large number of industries which did not employ occupational health personnel particularly in small-scale industries. Therefore, it is recommanded to utilize health management agency in the future. Considerable number of occupational health personnel were not qualified legally, it is needed to improve the quality of occupational health personnel.
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