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The result of observation, analysis, and research on the general characteristics, public health affairs, and the activities of public health nurses which have been resulted from the study of 618 married women from 20 to 44 years old, that were outpatients at three health centers; Dong-gu(183 women), Seo-gu(186 women), and Nam-gu(249), out of five public health, centers in Daegu-city, Korea, during 20 days from July 5 to July 25, 1974, can be summerized as follows: 1. The majories of those who visited to public health center are from 24 to 29 years in age and this is applicable to 38.3% of total applicants. The average ages of them are 34 years old, the average number of family, 4.4 persons, and the family constitution withthe 4 families are dominantly 25.2%. 2. The use of public health center by the local inhabitants is dominantly 43% by the use of local inhabitants living in the area of location of public health center. 3. The purpose of use has been dominant in preventive inoculation (22.8%). 4. The course of recognition has been based on the introduction of acquaintances or neighbours (53%), and positive answer by local inhabitant to the question of "Are public health nurses kind you in their attitudes?" is only 8.3%. 5. One public health nurse was to be allocated to 30,000 local inhabitants in ratio.
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