Participation of the Sub-District Administrative Organization Members in Providing Healthcare to People of Bannphaeo and Kratumban District, Samutsakhon Province
Abstract:
The purposes of this descriptive study were to explore and compare the participation rates of members of sub-district administrative organization (MSAO) in supporting healthcare to people of Bannphaeo and Kratumban district in five dimensions: community assessment, planning, implementation, profit, follow up and evaluation. A total of 278 members of sub-district administrative organization were included for interviewing and 195 were respondents. The results of this study showed that the overall mean score of participation rate of MSAO at Kratumban district was higher than the rate of MSAO of Bannpheao district statistically significant difference (p<0.01). However, in terms of 5 dimensions there was only implementation dimension that had statistical significant difference between the two groups of MSAO (p=0.003). Further analysis revealed that the highest mean score rated by the MSAO of Bannpheao was profit (3.50) in contrast with the MSAO of Kratumban district significantly had given to implementation (3.67). The factors which influence to participation rate of MSAO of Bannphaeo district was their by age, education level, domicile, duration of residence, participation in public health center activities, participation in community hospital activities management, information, state of organization while the Kratumbans was their education level, duration of work position, participation in public health center activities, participation in public health center activities management, number of village, income of organization. Major problems for the participation rate of MSAO were lack of knowledge, experiences, support budgets, and technologies. The recommendations from this research include improvement of knowledge about their roles in developing public health process. Sub-district Administrative Organization should promote and support people to be participate in health and healthcare for individual, and community.