Public Health Personnel''s Job Stress and Physical and Mental Health --Tainan County Health Bureau and Health Station as Example

• Main Authors: Ling-San Tsai, 蔡玲珊
• Other Authors: Yong-Yuan Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92076533520181795973

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 公共衛生學研究所碩士在職專班 === 92 === Background and objectives：People’s demand for health and hygiene has been continuously increased to a higher level in recent years, and hence the masses avidly expect to acquire medical service in better quality and quantity. Government also implements hygienic measures of all sorts due to this kind of demand in hopes of the promotion of people’s health and their knowledge and capability for disease prevention. But those advocated – by – government measures offering to community people, which in clude maternal &child health, family plan, vaccination, infection control, disease survey, cancer referral, and so forth, should be enforced by public health staff of basic health departments. Therefore, pressure faced by the staff is bound to exist. Problems such as excessive laboring hours, pressure of work, and lack of leisure time can affect the staff’s emotion , attitude, quality of service, and efficiency of work. Being under pressure in the long term will make people strained. So wo wonder how their pressures are and how to deal with .Still how are their states of health in both mind and should？ We hope that by this research report we can offer some advice of management to public health administrators and staff. Methods：This research adopts cross-section survey, with 242 members of Tainan County Health Bureau and Departments as the subjects and OSI-2 as the tool, to discuss public health staff’s pressure of work and state of health, and solution to their problems. The result obtained in processed by using soft ware, SPSS for windows 10.2, using frequeney, percentage, mean, standard deviation (SD),t-test,One-Way ANOVA,pearsons correlation coefficient for data analysis. Results：Result（－）Female make up 79.2﹪of public health staff, whose average age is 42.39 years old. College graduates rank the first （70.3﹪）in terms of education. 87.6﹪of them are married.7.6﹪are administrators. 36.6﹪bring home their unfinished work more than twice a week. I lein average of working experiemce is 14.46 years . 40.2﹪exercise from time to time, which make up the most part. 5.5﹪smoke. 9.8﹪are in the habit of drinking. And 47.7﹪consider to leave their positions sometimes. Result（＝） The staff’s feelings toward pressure of work are placed according to the result of scores from high to low. They are as follows 1st interpersonal relationship, 2nd burden of work, 3rd the balance between work ＆ family , 4th personal responsibility, 5th atmosphere of the organization. As for gague distribution; effect resulted from your fault 1st, clash between job and demand from high –ranked 2nd, thinking about work while being at home 3rd, having to pick up adventure 4th, improper leadership and support from officials 5th。 Conclusion： (1) The female personnel''s health conditions are worse than the male personnel''s and the pressure on the former is significantly higher than the latter. (2) The higher an employee''s educational background is, the higher the tendency of his/her behavior type A is. (3) The health conditions of the executives are better than those of professional Suggestion： 一.Maneuver the proper finesse for dealing with stresses and strains. 二.The intrumal management of facilities： Ameliorate the interactive methods and boost the organizational rapport.