FACTORS OF PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT, AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE PROVIDING AND PERCEPTION ABOUT NEWS SHALL HAVE INFLUENCE ON ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICE OF TRANSNATIONAL LABORS IN THAILAND

Abstract

This research is quantitative research. The research has objective is to
analyze the influence of factors of public health management and geography that
shall have influence on access to health service. Research population consisted of
foreign labor of Myanmar nationality working in business establishment of
continuous fishery in Samut Sakhon Province. There are samples totaling 412
persons. The research instrument was questionnaire. The statistics used in data
analyzing is descriptive statistics, such as frequency, percentage, statistics of
arithmetic mean and standard deviation. Regarding inferential statistics, the
researchers used methodology of statistical analysis with regard to relationship
between independent variables and the dependent variables. The hypothesis test
is made by using structural equation analysis.
From the hypothesis test, it was found that from adjusting of structural
equation according to the hypothesis in order to be consistent with empirical data,
factor of public health management (X1) has influence on access to health service
(Y) to be equal to 0.13 and factor of geography (X2) has influence on access to
health service (Y) to be equal to 0.93, considering the weight of the indicators in
each factor, it was found that: Factor of public health management, there is
indicator including financial support from the government, having the most weight
of elements: 0.79 (x11 = 0.79) and the factor of geography. Indicator of period
having the most weight of elements: 0.88 (x22 = 0.88). Access to health service of
foreign labor in Thailand, it was found that indicator of infrastructure, having the
most weight of elements: 0.89 (y1=0.89). The researchers can accept the
hypothesis with statistical significance at the level of .05.