The Medical Doctors' Opinion of Public Health Center on the Development and Supply of Medical Doctor for Public Health Sector.
- Author:
Kyeong Soo LEE
1
;
Jung Jeung LEE
;
Jin Sam KIM
;
Tae Yoon HWANG
;
Hyo Kyung SON
;
Chun Bae KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Public health sector;
Physicians supply
- MeSH:
Humans;
Public Health
- From:Journal of Agricultural Medicine & Community Health
2009;34(3):303-315
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: This study, as for activating measures for capable medical physicians to penetrate into the public health sector, is to provide a basic informations which are used for the enlargement of human resources of physicians in the public health sector, by investigating the perception of physicians, who are now working in the public health center, on the training and development of physicians in the public health sector. METHODS: The subjects of this study were 126 individuals. The data was analyzed by frequency analysis using SPSS ver. 17.0K. RESULTS: According to the investigation of 'how to support physicians in public health sector', the necessity of almost questions is considered to be important. Especially, regarding to investigation on 'obstacles of physicians' entrance to public health sector', 'relatively low salary' and 'lack of promotion chances' were thought to be considerable. The most significant education programs to work for public health sector is to improve the ability of health administration planning and service performance. CONCLUSIONS: The important methods to reinforce and easily obtain the human resources of physicians in public health sector are not only to improve the penetration of physicians to public health sector, but also to enhance the ability of present physicians, even though sufficient recruitment of physicians is essential.
