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It is expected that the demands of medical services in terms of health medical and social welfare will be increased rapidly due to the development of old-aged society and medical technologies. Accordingly the roles and tasks of the occupational therapist become more important, and the demands for the occupational therapist will be also increased. Therefore more systematic and
effective manpower management on the occupational therapists is required.
When the occupational therapists are classified by their job sites - clinic, health, and other, this study shows that the proportion of occupational therapist in clinic is the biggest. It is also expected that the proportion will be kept in the future.
On this point of view, the demand and supply for the occupational therapists in clinics are discussed in this study.
The number of occupational therapists demanded are usually depended upon the factors such as health care needs from public, system of medical fee payment and medical insurance, medical policy, share and coordination system of the role of medical service suppliers, and usage of medical facilities by public.
This study shows that even the occupational therapists including the students in college in 2000 itself are over-estimated and over-supplied already under the current system of legislation, even though the estimation on manpower needed in this field shows lack of.
In this point of view, this study proposes the measures against the problems expected as follow.
1. Legislative specification
In spite of the varieties of the occupational therapy, only 4 categories of therapy -simple therapy, complex therapy, special therapy, activities of daily living adjustment training method - are specified in the insurance category of the law.
Moreover, the law stipulates that special therapy and ADL adjustment training method shall be prescribed by the rehabilitation medicine. Thus the occupational therapy could not be requested from neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery at all.
Nevertheless, it is strongly requested that patients from pediatrics, psychiatric, geriatrics, neurology, orthopedics as well as rehabilitation medicine shall be regarded as the subjects of the special therapy in the law.
2. Certification of psychiatric health care supplier
According to the clause 7 of the psychiatric health law, only 3 groups of psychiatric health specialists including clinical psychologist, nurse, and social welfare specialist can supply a psychiatric health care. Anyhow the job descriptions on the clause 2 of the PH law implementation regulation such as ADL adjustment training, occupational and recreational therapy, etc should be classified as the job of occupational therapist. The psychiatric health care courses including the practices are established for the curriculum of the department of occupational therapy in college. And considering that the development of independent ADL ability for the patients is one of the most critical areas of the occupation therapy discipline, the
occupational therapist shall supply the psychiatric health care services,
3. Short of facilities and the alternatives
The number of occupational therapy clinics in Korea, 98, is not sufficient.
Moreover many of the clinics are at big hospitals in big cities, and only 32 clinics are in regional areas. It is required to inform the government agencies and public opinion leaders that occupational therapy clinics shall not be limited to the big hospitals, rather than health offices managed by government should accept the clinics at first. The ultimate purpose of health services, promoting personal health status and help him to return to the society, is likely accorded with that of occupational therapy. Therefore it is requested that the occupational therapy
clinics shall be opened in psychiatric resorts, health offices, special institute for disabled, rehabilitation institutes, and the facilities for old aged persons as well as in hospitals.

목차

Ⅰ. 서 론
  1. 연구의 배경 및 필요성
  2. 연구 목적
 Ⅱ. 연구 방법
  1. 연구 자료 및 방법
  2. 작업치료사의 공급분석
  3. 공급 추계
  4. 수요추계
  5. 작업치료사 인력수급비교
 Ⅲ. 결 론
  1. 의료보험수가 청구
  2. 정신보건요원 자격
  3. 시설의 문제점과 대안

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저자

• 정원미 [ Jeong, Won-Mee | 동남보건대학 작업치료과 ]
• 최혜숙 [ Choi, Hyae-Sook | 동남보건대학 작업치료과 ]
• 이지연 [ Lee, Ji-Yeon | 광양대학 작업치료과 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  대한작업치료학회지 [The Journal of Korean Society of Occupational Therapy]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1226-0134

• 수록기간

  1993~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 514 DDC 617