Health-Promotion and Disease-Prevention Behaviors of Primary-Care Practitioners / 가정의학회지
Korean Journal of Family Medicine
; : 19-27, 2014.
Article
in English
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-87782
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WPRO
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
In the 1990s the primary focus of medicine was shifted to disease prevention. Accordingly, it became the responsibility of primary-care physicians to educate and counsel the general population not only on disease prevention specifically but health promotion generally as well. Moreover, it was, and is still today, considered important that physicians provide positive examples of health-promotion behaviors to patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate physicians' health-promotion behaviors and to identify the factors that influence them.METHODS:
We conducted a postal and e-mail survey of the 371 members of the Physician Association of Cheonan City between May 16th and June 25th, 2011. The questionnaire consisted of 18 items, including questions relating to sociodemographic factors, screening tests for adult diseases and cancer, and health habits.RESULTS:
There were 127 respondents. The gender breakdown was 112 men (88.2%) and 15 women (11.8%), and the mean age was 47.8 years. Fifty-nine (46.4%) were family physicians or interns, and 68 (53.6%) were surgeons. Twenty-six percent (26%) were smokers, and 74.8% were drinkers; 53.5% did exercise; 37% had chronic diseases; 44.9% took periodic cancer screening tests, and 72.4% took periodic screening tests for adult diseases.CONCLUSION:
It was found that general characteristics and other health-promotion behaviors of physicians do not affect physicians' practice of undergoing periodic health examination.
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Health context:
SDG3 - Target 3C: Increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce
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Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas
Health problem:
Authority and Accountability for Healthcare Workers
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Goal 9: Noncommunicable diseases and mental health
Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Physical Examination
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Physicians, Family
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Mass Screening
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Chronic Disease
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Electronic Mail
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Early Detection of Cancer
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Physicians, Primary Care
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Health Promotion
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
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Screening study
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Korean Journal of Family Medicine
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article