J Agric Med Community Health.  2009 Dec;34(3):303-315.

The Medical Doctors' Opinion of Public Health Center on the Development and Supply of Medical Doctor for Public Health Sector

• Lee KS
• Lee JJ
• Kim JS
• Hwang TY
• Son HK
• Kim CB

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.

Keyword

Public health sector; Physicians supply

MeSH Terms

Humans
Public Health