Health state of Thai monks who had been screening from Thai Red Cross Health Station No.2 Sukumal Anamai

Abstract

The monks also have health problems as the general people, especially health problems related to chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia. One of the important causes include eating food offering by the people, who make merit. Those people may lack of awareness on the negative effects of offering food to the monks' illness. In addition, the monks may have risky health behaviors such as inappropriate food consumption to their health status, smoking, drinking coffee and energy drinks and lack of proper exercise. If the monks’ health problems do not resolve, they may become chronic non-communicable disease patients requiring close supervision. Although the monks have the right to universal health care coverage, they still have difficult accessing medical and public health services including lack of continuous and comprehensive health care. Therefore, the development of health promotion processes and the caring guidelines could bring the monks about receiving care and accessing to quality health services.