Follow-up Management State of Lead Battery Workers in Periodic Health Examination.
- Author:
Gap Soo LEE
;
Young HWANGBO
;
Yong Bae KIM
;
Hwa Sung KIM
;
Jung Oh HAM
;
Sung Soo LEE
;
Kyu Dong AHN
;
Byung Kook LEE
;
Jung HUR
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
follow-up management;
health examination;
lead worker
- MeSH:
Education;
Follow-Up Studies*;
Humans;
Knowledge of Results (Psychology);
Occupational Diseases;
Occupational Health Services;
Outpatients;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine
1996;29(4):733-746
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
To evaluate the follow-up management state and related factor of lead battery workers in periodic health examination as part of program of group occupational health service, author studied 293 workers with questionnaire on knowledge of results and follow-up management state and related factors, and compared the responses to their periodic health examination result charts. The results were as follows: 1. 252(86%) workers responsed that they had received the health examination result chart, but only 116(39.6%) workers responsed that they had been educated or explained about the result of health examination, and 11(57.9%) workers among 19 workers with non-occupational disease D, 101(44.3%) workers among 228 workers with non-occupational disease C, and 19(28.4%) workers among 67 workers with occupational disease C knew accurately their health examination results. 2. 78(24.8%) of the workers responsed that they had follow-up management, and contents of follow-up management were follow-up(36.6%), out-patient treatment(31%), change worksite(8.5%), temporary retirement(7.0%) and others(16.9%). 3. Most of the workers responsed that the health examination were necessary, but three-fourths of the workers responsed that the health examination had been superficial or that they didn't know. 4. In this study, follow-up management show significant association with only explanation or education about health examination result chart.
