The public officials directly serving the people need to improve the quality of health care service by offering best services, because a public health center is the service institute in the front, which most sensitively responds to the demand of healt...
The public officials directly serving the people need to improve the quality of health care service by offering best services, because a public health center is the service institute in the front, which most sensitively responds to the demand of health care from local residents,
Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to look for the ways to improve the quality of public health care service through analyzing customer satisfaction survey of people using Cheongwon-gun health center. In order to attain its purpose, this study uses a positive study model in which accessibility, easy to use, responsiveness, promptness, credibility, comfortability, fairness, reflux are the independent variables. These are essential in the quality of public health care service and the components of costomer evaluation standards. The model also has, as its dependent variables, overall costomer satisfaction, revisit rate, the rate of recommending to family members, relatives and neighbors.
In this study, I polled the users of Cheongwon-gun public health center to figure out the customer satisfaction rate of those, of whom 347 people responded. To analyze the data from the poll, I used the SPSS 12.0(ver.). More specifically, I used frequency analysis, technical statistics analysis, factor analysis, credibility analysis, T-test, oneway ANOVA, interrelation analysis, mutiple regression analysis, etc in analyzing. Hypothesis testing was conducted through the above mentioned courses. The results are as follows:
First, I can find that most of residents are using the local public health center for treating simple diseases (internal and dentist diseases) and vaccinations because public health center's medical fee is inexpensive, about one third of private medical institutes, and it is well equipped with refrigerators to prevent vaccination allergy, and it provides free vaccinations.
Second, it is found that there are no meaningful statistic differences based on the factors of sociology of population such as sex distinction, age, education, marital status, job, income whereas there are meaningful statistic differences according to the regions the people reside.
Third, by analyzing the differences of service quality between groups, I can see there are meaningful diffences in accessbility in the standards of sex distinction, education, job, income. There are meaningful differences in fairness, comfortability, accessbility in the standards of age. Lastly, There are meaningful differences in responsiveness, comfortability, accessbility in the standard of marital status and in credibility, promptness, fairness, responsiveness, reflux, comfortability, easy to use, accessbility in the standard of service quality of regions.
Fourth, the corelation analysis to verify the hypothesis testing shows that there is a static interrelationship between costomer satisfaction rate and the variable of service quality and that there are middle degree meaningful corelationship among most of variables except for accessibility, easy to use, responsiveness, promptness, comfortability, fairness and reflux. Also, the result of verifying the impact of accessibility, easy to use, responsiveness, promptness, credibility, comfortability, fairness, reflux on the satisfaction rate of public health care service is that R2=489, F = 40.441, significance level p<.01 which show statistically being meaningful. Therefore, the 'fairness'(β=.238) is the first, the 'reflux'(β=.238) is the second and the 'promptness' is the third among the variables in the degree of affecting the satisfaction rate of public health care service. Accordingly, the hypothesis that easy to use, promptness, fairness and reflux affect the satisfaction rate of public health care service is verified in this study, whereas credibility, responsiveness, comfortability, accessibility are withdrawn because they don't affect the satisfaction rate.
Accordingly, making credible services, comfortability of surrounding circumstances and mind reform of officials in charge of public health care service will be most important in making a kind and credible public health center and making residents satisfied.
Satisfaction rate of service is an important factor in public health care service and it is indispensible as far as public health care service exists. Therefore, public health center should find factors related with improving public health information system as well as simply conducting customer satisfaction rate. Furthermore, a job operation system which will affect the whole public health care service positively should be developed and built.
In addition, considering the present situation where the number of residents using public health centers decreases, it is needed to find ways for improving satisfaction rate of public health center users and to develop strategic programs for improving service quality as well as to carry out mind reform of related officials. Public health centers should be transformed from existing images to organizations which play important and pivotal roles for promotion of public health through these things.