The Efficiency of Public Health Emergency Management Model in Case of Flood Disaster in Nan Province

Abstract

The evaluation research by CIPP Model was aimed at efficiency assessment of public health crisis management model in case of flooding in Nan province, Thailand. These survey research was cross-sectional study covering 100 officers in public health crisis management and 966 participants in Tha Wang Pha district, Mueang Nan district, Phu Phiang district and Wiang Sa district

It was found that, the context indicated the readiness for six catastrophic emergency measures as derived by past potulism outbreak experiences. As such, its emergency management plan could be described in three phases of, preparedness, crisis management and rehabilitation. In the input process, the Nan Provincial Public Health Office had set up a policy and guidelines on public health emergency management. Whereas the six measures were duly incorporated in operation manuals for catastrophic emergency by service providers at all levels. In the process, the Nan management team showed high and highest regards on the public health emergency model. As a result, the product assessment underlined the effective integration of such plan which forming productive medical, health professional, and social civil networks. The 2011 nationwide catastrophic flood in Nan, then, was not fatal. The survey of the affected groups, consequently, underscored health education and risk communications in health crisis management.