The study for community health assessment by participatory learning process in Sa Yai Som subdistrict, U Thong district, Suphan Buri Province
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Community health assessment is a process in which the active participation of community members develops strategies to solve problems in the community and work together to drive the community towards a sustainable healthy community. This participatory action research is aimed to community health assess and priority setting of community health problem by participatory learning process in Sa Yai Som subdistrict, U Thong district, Suphan Buri province. Subjects in community health assessment process were individuals aged 15 and above, totaling 255 people, randomly selected. Data were collected using household interview questionnaires, personal health information interview questionnaires and a secondary data copy form from the subdistrict health promoting hospital. The subjects in participatory learning process consists of stakeholders from 3 villages, with 15 individuals per village, comprising 2 community leaders, 4 representatives of the population in each age group, 4 representatives from different occupations, 3 village health volunteers, 1 subdistrict health promoting hospital officers, and 1 local government organization officers. Data were collected using focus group discussion and community brainstorming. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. For qualitative data, content analysis was performed and summarize the main points. The results showed that a semi-urban community was studied, convenient transportation, well-planned infrastructure and the majority of the people in the that area are workers and agriculturalists. Important community issues are classified into three categories; including health outcomes, health risk behavior or environment risk, socioeconomic status which all issue has a systemic link that impacts the health of those who live in the community and must be solved. The results from prioritizing problems found that diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia were the most important concerns in village 3, 4, and 5, respectively. It is a problem that everyone in the community agrees needs to be solved as rapidly as possible, which community members or organizations can utilize to develop plans to solve health problems by collaborating with various sectors to achieve holistic and sustainable solutions.
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