Process of District Health Board Development for Elderly Health Promotion in Uttaradit Province

Abstract

This research aims to study needs in elderly health promotion to evaluate the situation on elderly health promotion of District Health Board (DHB) and study the developing plan of District Health Board on elderly health promotion in Uttaradit province. The research was studied by Research and Development model. The developing samples including the samples who were the DHB, directors and person in charge of health in Local Administration Organizations as well as the president of Elderly club were collected 156 samples using purposive sampling method whereas the evaluating samplesincluding local elderly from 9 districts of Uttaradit province were collected 398 samples using Proportional stratified random sampling method. The questionnaires, group interviews, in-depth interviews and non-participant observations were employed to instruments for data collection The result revealed that the elders need health care in high level coupling with the needs of standard hospital, home care visiting, healthy foods and center of health knowledge in community. The processes of development consist of 4 processes (1) Development of human potential (2) Participatory promotion (3) Development of health process and (4) Health Supportive Environment creation. The result of human potential development showed that the elderly health promotion network gained more knowledge of health form participatory learning, working with network, up to date confidential useful database which available for access and the community had own Supportive Environment for elderly health promotion. The researchers suggested the promotion for the participation of the network which involving elderly health promotion using the role of District Health Board (DHB) which will effect on better of health status, decreasing the risk of Non-communicable disease.