Author: Sukunya Plungsuchon
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-11-10
Year: 2011
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2011
Examination Committee: Soparth Pongquan (Chairperson); Jayant Kumar Routray, Kyoko Kusakabe (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The promotion of village health volunteers (VHVs) was launched in PHC of Thailand not until the fomth Public Health Development Plan (1977-1981) mainly due to the sh01tage of public health personnel at local level. VHVs are key grassroots resource persons for PHC to provide basic technical knowledge and practices on health care services to local people over decades. The research aims to study motivation and incentives of VHV s in performing community health development (CHD) activities to assess their performance on tasks related to CHD activities to assess satisfaction of local people on CHD services performed by VHVs and the satisfaction of VHVs on performance and institutional suppott and to analyze factors explaining their performance. The research used both primary and secondary data sources applying household survey, reconnaissance survey, field observation, interviews and group discussion in field data collection. Samples were drawn both from VHVs and households from ten villages in Khlong Rua Sub-district, Wihan Daeng District of Saraburi Province in central Thailand. The research is primarily used quantitative analysis with the suppo1t of qualitative explanations. Several kinds of motivation were expressed by VHVs including personal and altruistic and public motivations. Their motivation was varied by social characteristics of them. Most of the VHVs performed well in tasks assigned by Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) pa1ticularly on curative care, health prevention, health promotion, and health rehabilitation activities such as examining the rights of using free medical card, prevention of dengue hemorrhagic fever, cooperation with VHV s network, and diabetes mellitus and paralys is chronic disease patient based on their own selfassessment. Local people were satisfied with VHV’s services rendered to them on curative care, health prevention, health promotion, and health rehabilitation services such as blood test for malaria and providing essential medicine, examine the rights of using free medical car
Scholarship Donor(s): Royal Thai Government, AIT Fellowship
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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