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KMID : 0384920030120020146
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
2003 Volume.12 No. 2 p.146 ~ p.155
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The Influence of Preemployment Medical Examination, Pure tone Audiometry, and Simple Lumbar Spine X-ray Test on the Worker’s Employment - The Result of Survey at Incheon Metropolitan City and Gyeonggi Province in Korea, the year 2003 -
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Kim Kyeong-Ja
Seong Nak-Jeong
Han Sang-Hwan
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Abstract
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This study was conducted for investigating the status of management of preemployment health examination and to have an effect on the worker’s employment.
Health managers of 103 companies in Incheon metropolitan city and Gyeonggi were interviewed by telephone.
Of 103 companies, 67(65.1%) said they don’t hire the applicants who have an active pulmonary tuberculosis, 80(77.7%) companies said they health HBV carrier is acceptable but active HBV carrier is not 29(28.2%) companies said they don’t hire the applicants who have a hypertension or diabetes mellitus, 42(40.8%) companies said they don’t hire the applicants
who have a hearing disturbance. If HIVD is suspicious in X-ray lumbar-sacral region, 37(78.7% of 47 companies) said they do not hire the applicants. 29(35% of 83 companies) said they cancel the employment of the applicants who are suspicious of noise induced hearing loss on preplacement health examination.
From our survey, preemployment health examination was utilizing mainly as a tool for the selection of health employees who don’t have a disease. Furthermore, in many companies, additional test items are being included and getting more strict the selection criteria for preemployment health examination. For the right use of preemployment health examination, author suggested that further studies were needed to select the adequate test items and establish the reasonable criteria for preemployment health examination.
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KEYWORD
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Discrimination of Workers, Preemployment Medical Examination, Preplacement Medical Screening
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