Promotion of community participation to develop community health systems: The Case Study of Taling-chan District Community

Abstract

The current economic, social and environmental conditions influence the health status and behavior of Thai people, resulting in people’s changing attitude towards their lifestyle. Thus, living together, caring for each other and community well-being can be achieved with the strong development of a health care system in the community and the adjustability to the current situations while maintaining the balance of life. The guidelines for developing a community health system to enhance community potential include that the community and public participation should be promoted to allow people to participate in self-management for solving the problems for their own, family and community benefits as well as to fully and comprehensively respond to the distribution of community health system development, with decision making, implementation, participate in benefits and evaluation. Therefore, strengthening the community is important and private sector and public organizations are necessary to support the role of public sector in order to reinforce to develop a community health system to strengthen the community in a secure, wealthy and sustainable manner as a good operation in the Taling Chan district community.