Effectiveness of Potential Development of Public Health Volunteers to Reinforce Surveillance Operations on Health Products in the Community of Nongbon Sub-district, Borai District, Trat Province

Abstract

A research on the effectiveness of potential development of public health volunteers to reinforce surveillance operations on health products was carried out in Nongbon Sub-district, Borai District, Trat Province. This research and development (R&D) aimed to develop operational capacity for health product surveillance in the community by using the 3 potential development strategies which were advocacy, enabling and mediation to the public health volunteers and related parties. The study sample included 40 public health volunteers working under Queen Sirikit 60th Anniversary Health Center, Nongbon Sub-district, Borai District, Trat Province. The results showed that the process of capacity development using the 3 potential development strategies could significantly (p<0.05) increase knowledge on health product surveillance operations among the public health volunteers in the area. Monitoring health products in the community and the center for surveillance and complaint about problems of health products were in good performance. This development process may be useful to reinforce surveillance operations on community health products in other areas.