The Present State of Health Management and Related Factors in Small Enterprises.
- Author:
Soo Jin LEE
1
;
Hyunjoo KIM
;
Jaechul SONG
Author Information
1. Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Small enterprise;
Occupational health
- MeSH:
Education, Professional;
Efficiency;
Emergencies;
Health Education;
Health Promotion;
Korea;
Logistic Models;
Occupational Health;
Seoul;
Social Control, Formal;
Workers' Compensation;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Korean Journal of Aerospace and Environmental Medicine
2004;14(4):158-164
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The aims of the study are to investigate the present state of occupational health management (OHM) in small enterprises, to explore the related factors, and to provide the information for effective policy of OHM in those enterprises. METHODS: The study subjects were 155 small enterprises that had referred the measurement of workplace hazards to a hospital at the East Seoul, Korea. Self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted by Fax. The contents of the survey were present state of OHM and related factors. RESULTS: 1. The characteristics of OHM in charge were as follows; among the health manager (1) 81.9% had the high authority, (2) 63.2% could explain workplace hazard, (3) 52.9% had outside professional education, (4) 49.7% recognized the need for occupational health, and (5) 67.7% had pragmatic perspective on workers' health protection. 2. The occupational health activities that showed higher performance rate were as follows; periodic health examination (86.5%), measurement of workplace hazard (92.9%). The occupational health activities that showed lower performance rate were as follows; appointment of emergency hospital (26.5%), replacement health examination (18.1%), health education (30.0%), health promotion (23.3%), preparation of health statistics (14.8%), planning health management (9.7%) 3. As results of multiple logistic regression analysis, the factors associated with the higher activity of occupational health were longer duration(more than 5 years) of health manager in charge(OR=2.41), pragmatic perspective on workers' health protection (OR=3.79), experience of outside professional education (OR=2.40), repair of automobiles(OR=3.31), workplace that employed more than 10 workers (OR=4.02), history of workers' compensation (OR=8.05), employers' high concern (OR=4.61). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that interest of employers and appointment of suitable health manager in charge were important, and minimum regulations and the development of occupational health program integrated with promoting productivity are required to activate occupational health in small enterprise
