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KMID : 0387319990090030129
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Korean Journal of Health Policy and Administration
1999 Volume.9 No. 3 p.129 ~ p.148
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Sanitary Officials´ Affairs State and Attitude about Transfer of Sanitary Affairs Control to Health Center
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Son Sung-Ho
Kam Sin
Park Jae-Yong
Park Ki-Soo
Han Chang-Hyun
Cha Byung-Jun
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Abstract
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This study was performed to investigate contents of affairs and job satisfaction of sanitary officials at sanitary department and health center, and to assess attitude about transfer of sanitary affairs control to health center and to devise improving program of sanitary affairs.
Four-hundred and fifty-five sanitary officials were sent a postal questionnaire and eighty-four percent completed and returned the questionnaire (382 persons).
The major results are as follows:
The major sanitary affairs performed by sanitary officials were permission and filing of restaurant business (15.1%), supervision and regulation of that (14.4%).
Sanitary officials answered that supervision and regulation of insanitary and/or subquality foods, planning of food sanitary administration. and
permission and filing of restaurant business were their important affairs.
They replied that the most serious problem of sanitary affairs was `lack of contribution to the public health (40.9%), Putting first in supervision (26.4%) ,
and lack of personnels (19.1%), and the most important thing to improve sanitary affairs was the substantial inherent affairs. And they indicated that the agency to be desired for sanitary affairs control was the sanitary department (51.6%), the health center (25.4%).
For the degree of satisfaction in affairs, 29.1% of sanitary officials felt proud, 59.6% felt overwork, 59.3% hoped transferring to other worksite and the major reason of transferring was lack of promotion opportunity in officials of sanitary department, disciplinary punishment and social corrupt view in officials at health center.
The 41.1% of sanitary officials at sanitary department didn´t know that sanitary affairs had been stated as affairs of the health center in Community. Health Act. After transferring affairs control to the health center, 14.4% of them felt more proud of affair´s but 20.0% less proud, 23.2% more satisfactory but 22.4% more dissatisfactory, and 64.8% answered that sanitary affairs did not change.
The results indicate that sanitary affairs should be changed to supervise and control insanitary and/or subquality foods, so that they play an important role at health promotion, and make sanitary officials feel proud at their own work.
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KEYWORD
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sanitary officials, affairs state, attitude, transfer of sanitary affairs control
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