Factors Associated with the Respect for Working of the Village Health Volunteer in Southern Thailand
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Village health volunteers are people who are very important in to the public health system of Thailand. The study of respect for working will be good information used for the village health volunteers’ potential development. This purpose of study was to study the factors associated with the respect for working of the village health volunteers. The study used a cross-sectional study. Samples was were 10,321 village health volunteers in the lower southern, who were analyzed by Multiple Logistic Regression. The results showed that the respects for working of the village health volunteers were greater than 80.00 percent. Healthcare experian, inspiration for village health volunteer and resigning plan these were associated with every dimension in respect for working of the village health volunteers. Therefore, healthcare organizations should be development special courses for the village health volunteers and that should be accredited by professional healthcare institutions.
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