The Study of Socioeconomic Determinants That Determine Non-communicable Diseases for the Quality of Life Indicators of Health-Related Thai Social Situation among the People

Abstract

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are public health problems that impact on economic and social burden and also affect to loss of disability adjusted life years of the Thai people. The objectives of this study were to (1) identify socioeconomic determinants related and influenced to chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) for the quality of life indicators and (2) construct the prediction equation to calculate probability of the determinants that would have the likelihood of influencing NCDs occurrence and severity. Altogether 385 sets of provincial level data were collected from the various organization published sources. They were secondary data in the fiscal years 2014 - 2018. The data were analyzed with multinomial logistic regression model. It was found that the determinants relating to and influencing NCDs (hypertension, diabetes and heart diseases) were number of academic years, per capital income, depression diseases and the health promotion budget. Other outcomes of the study were the NCDs prediction equations with an overall prognostic accuracy of 80.28%. The model of improving quality of life for the people was to raise the level of per capita income, enhance health promotion for the NCDs prevention at the local level corresponding with providing education including health literacy and surveillance for patients with depression. Thus, the NCDs equation prediction to calculate probability of NCDs should be used for the planning, health promotion and prevention of the NCDs that would occur in the future.