AN EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS ON THE COMPETENCY OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN THAILAND’S HEALTH PROMOTING HOSPITALS
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exploratory factor analysis, public health professionals, competency of community health professionals, health promoting hospitalsAbstract
The purpose of this research was to analyze the competency components of public health professionals working in Health Promoting Hospitals. The sample comprises of 500 public health professionals employed by the Thai Primary Care Unit who were recruited through a multistage selection procedure. A questionnaire was utilized to collect data for the aim of a competency evaluation. The result indicated a high internal concordance and reliability level, between 0.81 and 0.96. The Varimax orthogonal rotation was used to evaluate the three primary categories of competencies: knowledge, skills, and personal attributes.
The findings showed that there were six knowledge-related components (public health development, public health administration, holistic health care, disease control and epidemiology, primary health care, and first aid), ten skill-related components skills (voluntary community, research, health information management, health education and public health communication, primary health care provision, health promotion and disease prevention, community assessment, strategic planning and problem-solving, knowledge management and coordination and consumer protection), and five personality related components (professional ethics, leadership, knowledge management, and negotiation, systematic thinking and interaction) with values ranging from 0.419-0.0980. These variables accounted for 65.884%, 72.133%, and 73.154% of the variance.
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