The Roles of Public Health Office for Activation Community Mental Health Project of K Region
Authors: Kim Yoon Hee , Kim Jeong Suk 
Published: September 2024

This st udy was aimed to examine the role of pub lie health office such as understanding the present situations of mentally disordered persons in the re gion of jurisdiction requiring study, grasping highly possible group to be mentally disordered, investi gation of the request of the residents for mental health service and mental heali h promotion of local residents as basic investigation study to examine the roles of public health office which should make management of chronic psychiatric patients and performs effectively the work of mental health pro motion of local residents.This study has been conducted for 2 years from Jan. 1997 through Dec. and lib psychiatric patients (48 mean and 70 women) registered with public health office, 1(X) residents who answered to the in vestigation requesting mental health service and 1, 283 residents to find the highh dangerous group of mental disorder among 55.()03 lesidents of K region (Kapvung-Gun contry), and 나)tai 1,S()1 residents have participated at the study, and the collected materials have been statistically managed by fre quency degree and percentage according to the pur pose of the study.The Result of the study First. Total number of psychiatric patients was 118 by 48 men(40.7%) and 7() women(59.3%), and they are classified by medical examirvition schizo phrenia by 44(37.3%), mood disorder by 21(17.8%), eplepsy by 19( 16.1%) and mental retardation by 11 The age distribution showed that 28.8% was thirties, 23.7% fourties, 17.0% sixties and 16.°o tweenties.Second, They requested the health promotion of the aged by 35.0% most as the business required for mental health promotion of the residents while man agement of the aged who live alone showed 110%, steady mental health education 10.2%. stress man agement education 10.2%, education that drinking is dangerous 8.3%, psychiatric disease prevention education 7.3%, management of dementia patients 6.3% and chronic psychiatric patients 5.8%. This re gion showed that the business for health promotion for the aged who occy 10% of ill the residents and health management has been highly requested.Third, They also required political consideration for transportation convenience in order to manage chronic psychiatric patients, professional manpower and financial support, development of rehabilitation program and the use of welfare facilities, and the ef fective ways and measures are required to be devel oped for understanding the cause of stress and the management of stress to promote the health of the residents and positive propagation and education are required on no smoking and no drinking considering that smokers and drinkers occupy over 70% of the residents while 13.6% is alcoholic.Fourth, They requested the public health office to do the role of promoting mental health for all the residents, using the leading group in the region, securing professional mental manpower, full under standing and concerns about the chronic psychiatric patients and their family, finding, preventing, treating and providing the highly dangerous group earlier and providing traffic convenience to the residents to reach the public health office.In conclusion, the public health office in K region where there is not any mental doctor and clinic to contact should start preferentially the psychiatric health business for local community by settling it in existing primary health medical system.