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Health care strategy for ensuring work ability in an aging Korea
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Jungsun Park, Jong-tae Park, Soo Geun Kim, Cheol-In Yoo, Junseok Son, Jun Yim, Dae-seong Kim, Kyung Young Rhee, Yangho Kim
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Ann Occup Environ Med 2016;28:42. Published online September 7, 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40557-016-0127-y
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The rapid aging trend in South Korea will cause a growing shortage of labor and decreasing quality of the labor force. The purpose of this commentary is to recommend a health care strategy to maintain and promote the work ability of employees in an aging Korea. Strategies to promote the work ability require the collaboration of governmental agencies at the central and local levels. First, the common goal should be the reinforcement of follow-up measure in general medical examinations and the promotion of healthy lifestyles for workers. Second, collaborating activities should be performed among the Worker’s Health Center, the Health Promotion Center, and community health centers. In conclusion, health care strategies for ensuring the work ability in an aging Korea require the collaboration of governmental agencies at the central and local levels.
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The recognition about the institution of occupational health management in the plating industry
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Kyung Young Rhee, Gwan Hyeong Yi
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Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1992;4(1):32-44. Published online February 29, 1992
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.1992.4.1.32
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A Study on the Psychological Symptoms of Hospitalized Pneumoconiosis Patients: Comparison with pneumoconiosis Examinees, Coal Miners, and Other Manual Workers
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Kyung Young Rhee, Ho Keun Chung
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Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1990;2(2):166-178. Published online August 31, 1990
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.1990.2.2.166
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- The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hospitalization and diagnosis of disease on the mental health of coal workers' pneumoconiosis patient. The study subjects were composed of four groups for comparison; hospitalized coal workers' pneumoconiosis, healthy coal miners, and railroad workers employed by government. About a hundred of respondents in each group were sampled by random. Mental health data were collected by symptom distress checklist 90 (SCL-90), and other characteristics were collected by interview with questionnaire administered trained interviewers in each respondents.
Mental health dimension was classified into 9 dimensions; somatization, obsessive-compulsiveness, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostality, phobic anxiety, paranoid, psychosis. And as total index, global severity index, positive symptoms total, positive symptom distress index were also computed.
As a result there is difference of mean score of 9 symptom dimensions among four groups. The mean score of the examinees of depth diagnosis of the impressed coal workers' pneumoconiosis is the highest score in all 9 symptom dimensions. However in the hospitalized coal workers' pneumoconiosis scores of somatization, depression, anxiety, and phobic anxiety were still higher than that of healthy coal miners. And other symptom dimensions were not different from that of healthy coal miners.
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