This study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the government-funded subsidized occupational health program for small-scale enterprises(GSOHP_SSE) by occupational health communication in workplace.

We sampled the 1,835 enterprises of study by proportional stratified random sampling among industries of supported and not supported by GSOHP_SSE in Seoul, Ansan, Daejeon, Kwangjoo and Pohang. Information on the general characteristics of enterprises and respondants and occupational health communication in the workplace was collected on self-reported questionnaires by post-survey between December 6 and 15 in 2001. We received answers from 463 enterprises and analyzed 228 enterprises through data-cleaning by logistic regression to evaluate effectiveness of GSOHP-SSE about occupational health communication in the workplace.

By multiple logistic regression analysis, GSOHP_SSE turned out not to be statistically significant factor in all dependent variables about occupational health communication in the workplace. The concern of owner(odds ratio (below OR) ; 1.63, 95% confidence interval(below 95% CI) ; 0.38-7.01), formation(OR ; 3.67, 95% CI ; 1.00-13.44) and empowerment(OR ; 1.48, 95% CI ; 0.25-8.91) of health manager, request about occupational health problem of health manager(OR ;4.48, 95% CI ; 0.97-20.57) and occupational health communication of owner (OR ; 3.07, 95% CI ; 0.81-11.71) had the trend increasing OR in the industries supported GSOHP_SSE relative to the industries not supported. But in recognition of possibility on occupational health communication of laborers, OR of GSOHP_SSE was decreased in 0.53(95% CI ; 0.11-2.44).

This study found that the GSOHP_SSE was some effective to the side of employer and health manager, but had a limitation about change of communication culture useful to the laborers. We suggested the laborer-centered health training programs or the empowerment-based health training programs for effective occupational health management in the workplace.

This study aims to survey of the health examination for occupational disease using similar exposure group(SEG).

We surveyed industrial hygienists and occupational physicians about the health screening using SEG. We randomly sampled 100 industrial hygienists and 100 occupational physicians from the membership lists. We collected the heneral characteristics and professional opinion of health examination for occupational disease screening using SEG. The self-reported questionnaires were collected by mail from July 1st to July 20th in 1999.

Seventy three percent of respondents answered they knew the concepts of SEG. Occupational hygienists were more likely to know the SEG than occupational physician, but it was not statistically significant. Both of occupational hygienists and physicians pointed out that "Improvement of hazardous exposure monitoring" should be on the first assumption for development of health examination using SEG. The second assumption would be "Advance of toxicologic knowledge". And next was "Improvement of appraisal for health effect" from occupational physician, but "Administrative will to reform" from occupational hygienist.

It is desirable to health examination based on SEG rather than on individual hazardous exposure. For this approach, we have to improve the monitoring of hazardous exposure first.