| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 健康事業管理研究所 === 100 === Background: Since 1982, Department of Health indicates that cancer has become the first leading cause of mortality in Taiwan and also brings about a high impact on the public health. In order to reduce the impact, Department of Health enacts “Cancer Control Act” to improve the phenomenon of high mortality and incidence of cancer in 2003. One of the goals of Cancer Control Act is to encourage the public to adopt the Pap smear screening that may be helpful to detect the cervical cancer in the early stage. Therefore, this study analyzes whether the implementation of Cancer Control Act affects the adoption of Pap smear screening, and how the influence works.
Methods: As organizational learning effect takes place in Department of Health, employees may cumulate their ability and the promotion of Cancer Control Act performs well. And thus eventually Pap smear screening information spreads in the social network and provides a positive impact on diffusion effect. Through the analysis of this empirical study, the interaction effect is also identified.
Conclusion: In this study, we present a model by integrating diffusion effect, organizational learning effect and interaction effect to analyze the factors affecting the behavior of Pap smear screening. The results indicate that both diffusion effect and organizational learning effect exist significantly for the adoption of Pap smear screening.
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