Driving the Participatory Local Public Policies to Control and Prevent Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in the Community of Rai Tai Sub-District, Phibun Mungsahan District, Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

                 The objective of this research was to study a process of driving participatory local public policies to control and prevent Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in the community of Rai Tai Sub-District, Phibun Mungsahan District, Ubon Ratchathani Province by applying the participatory process of the health public policies. The target group included 67 participants who involved in driving public policies and were from the groups of people from political sectors, normal people, and academic sectors. The samples were 360 participants randomized by simple random sampling. The data were collected in quantitative and qualitative data and analyzed by descriptive statistics, qualitative data, and content analysis.
            The research findings were found as follows.
            The residents in Rai Tai Sub-District increased knowledge about controlling and preventing DHF with the statistical significance at the level of 0.5. The mean scores of the participation in the implementation to control and prevent DHF in the community increased with the statistical significance at the level of 0.5. The findings of the survey on Container Index (CI) in the area showed that CI decreased and its values did not exceed the standard values in both before processing (HI=56.94, CI=50.76) and after processing (HI=6.67, CI=19.67). These affected the DHF sickness to be at the zero level in the area.