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KMID : 0353019710080010077
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Korean Journal of Public Health
1971 Volume.8 No. 1 p.77 ~ p.87
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A Study on the Feasibility of Integrated Administration of Health Services for Mothers and Children and Family Planning Service
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Abstract
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For the purpose of analysing the issues involved in the interrelationships between health services for mothers and children and government sponsored family planning programs and assessing the feasibility of an integrated administration of these closely related services, the Author conducted an opinion survey towards family planning senior field workers from both the urban and rural health centers. Pre-coded questionnaire forms were distributed to respondents in classrooms held for an inservice training of the field workers, from 7 through 21 October 1970. The conclusions obtained from this study can be outlined as follows;
1. Under stitustions prevailing in Korea, it is desirable that MCH service and family planning service be operated under one umbrella at all administrative levels, because;
a. the target populations of the two services are practically idential,
b. medical and health backgrounds as well as facts as basis of the two services are almost common to each other,
c. basic training of the field persommel to be mobilized for these two services should involve technical subject-matter much in common in nature, and
d. funds for each of the two services are much limited in scale.
2. Both the MCH and family planning services, in terms of their program contents, still are much apart from the ideal types theoretically constructed.
3. Program contents of both MCH and family planning services in rural areas lack a balance compared with those for the urban area.
4. Cooperation and coodination between the two services are deficient both in rural and urban areas, mainly for organizational and budgetary segregation.
5. A greet mejority of family planning field workers are in support of an integrated administration of MCH and family planning services.
6. A low level of recognition as to the practical know-how of an integrated MCH and family planning services has been assessed with family planning field workers.
Based on the above findings, it is recommended that
1. A study of much larger scope and higher intensity on the subject of integration of MMCH and family planning services is desirable.
2. A study should be conducted on the practical procedure of evaluating these two services as the integral parts of one comprehensive health services oriented towards mothers and children.
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