Abstract

PURPOSE
The CHP program has been evaluated as one of the most successful program in the public health area in Korea. The objects of this study were as follows; 1) to evaluate the job activities of the CHP program, using service contents analysis, 2) to figure out personal factors and the outcome of CHP's activities.
METHOD
Data were collected by sending questionnaires to 130 subjects through the mail from May to December 2003. The response rate was 48.0%. The Data were analyzed by the SPSS WIN program with t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient. In using these methods, independent variables are CHP's personal factors (age, experience, certification of specialty) and regional factors (geographical classification, aged population, village workers, cooperation of community leaders, work- conditions), and a dependent variable is the outcome of CHP's job activities.
RESULT
The results of t-test analysis show that regional differences between factors are influential in the welfare service, the routine job, and the consultation. As a whole, this is shown that CHPs represent experience, the number of village workers and CHPs living condition of work and most of the categories of jobs that influenced over statistical meaning of differences (t=2.417, p=1.043, t=6.123, p= .004, t=4.309, p= .000). There is a significant positive relation between the routine job and the consultation(r= .455, p= .000), the consultation and the education(r= .461, p= .000).
CONCLUSION
Finally, according to the results of this study, the CHP program should be developed and continue to meet the basic health care needs of the residents in accordance with the philosophy of their own primary health care.