Abstract
The objectives of this empirical research were to survey the attitudes of
healthcare teams and health service recipients in Thailand with regard to home healthcare services and community health promotion as services in a sufficiency
economy. There were two groups of samples: health personnel who provided home
health care and the people who received home health care in four regions of
Thailand, i.e., the Northern, Northeastern, Central and Southern regions. Sixty health
personnel were purposively selected from one province in each region, making 240
subjects for the personnel team; 120 people were purposively selected from one
province in each region, making 480 subjects for the healthcare recipient group.
The results showed that 83.2 percent of the persons in the personnel team and
79.4 percent of the healthcare recipients thought that home health care was a
sufficiency economic service. While 55.8 percent of the health personnel were very
satisfied with home healthcare services in providing sufficiency economic services,
42.9 percent were moderately satisfied, and 1.3 percent were not satisfied; 71.5
percent of the people in the subject group had experienced highly satisfactory
services and 28.5 percent considered such services as moderately satisfactory.
In conclusion, both health personnel and health service recipients accepted that
home health care and community health promotion represented sufficiency economic
health services.
