FACTORS AFFECTING ROLE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD OF 10th PUBLIC HEALTH REGION

Abstract

This analytical cross-sectional research aims to study factors affecting the implementation of the District Health Boards in the 10th Public Health Region. Participants were 395 District Health Boards from 20 districts in the 10th Public Health Region. The questionnaire was developed by the researcher. The statistics used in the descriptive data analysis were frequency, percentage, and inferring statistics using Multiple Linear Regression.

The results showed that administrative factors, administrative processes, and the implementation of the roles of the District Health Boards had a high level of 83.3, 88.1 and 85.8 had average scores of 53.1 (SD = 6.86), 99.1 (SD = 11.31), 51.8 (SD=6.44) respectively. Factors affecting the performance of the District Health Boards roles were personal factors in terms of income, manpower management, materials, planning, leadership, and management processes which could jointly predict 50 percent of the implementation of the role of the District Health Boards in the 10^th health area.

Suggestions: the budget, manpower, and materials should be sufficiently and appropriately supported, the planning and leadership building processes should be developed to increase the board's knowledge and competence, and more cooperation between various sectors should be encouraged.