The People's Participation for Health Promotion of Pre-school Children in Child Development Center, Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province.

Abstract

The objectives of the research were to study the participatory of villager for health promotion of children in child development center, and to identify the factors that effect to make decision to participate. This research is the Participatory Action Research [ PAR ) which collected data from child development center's committee, parents and caregivers. The collecting data came from informal interview, observation and focus group discussion. All data is analyzed on content analysis and induction analysis. The result showed that the majority of villagers who participated on child development center's activities was asked by village leader, but they just only came to receive the information for individual using. The interesting point was they didn't particitpate on the level of decision making in the whole activities. Moreover, the major factors that lead to participate was belief and trust in village leader. In the other hand, the reason that didn't co-operate was they thought health promotion was the responsibility of health personnel and child development was the responsibility of caregiver at child development center and the interesting point of child development center was reading and writing more than creative Activity.