Factors Affecting Public Health Performance Evaluation of Sub-district Health Promoting Hospital Directors

The aim of this research is to study individual attributes and administrative factors that influencing on the Public Health Performance Evaluation of sub-district health promoting hospital directors in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. This research is imperative to study due to all sub-district health promoting hospital directors in this province are required to lead their public health services towards the Sub-district Health Promoting Hospital Development Plan Project. This cross sectional descriptive design was employed and conducted for duration of time from year 2011 to 2012. A total of 220 samples drawn from a population of 350 sub-district health promoting hospital directors by using systematic sampling technique. Research instrument is a self-administered questionnaire which developed by researchers. The questionnaire contained of four session including seven items on general information, 36 items and 30 items five-rating Likert scale on administrative resources and public health performance evaluation respectively. In addition, respondents are required to give problems and suggestions at the last session of the instrument as three open ended questions. Findings revealed that the level of administrative resources was high (mean value = 3.86 ± 0.61). When looking at each resource, it was found that method possessed the highest mean score (4.05 ± 0.61) while money was at the lowest mean score (3.73 ± 0.79). The level of public health performance evaluation as a whole was high (mean value = 3.91 ± 0.61). The highest mean score was data defining (4.00 ± 0.59) whereas the lowest mean score was interpreting and reporting (3.79 ± 0.72). Specifically man, money, materials and method had moderate and positive relationship with the performance evaluation with r value ranged from 0.493 to 0.672 at the significant level as 0.001. Finally, findings showed that there are three significant predictors which contributed 60.90 percent of the total variance of the Public Health Performance Evaluation. The three significant predictors are method, materials, and man.