Strategies for the Development of Public Health Personnel in Sustainable Health Systems

Abstract

This paper aimed to study strategies related to the development of current public health personnel. Under present circumstances, the COVID-19 pandemic, which the outbreaking started in 2019, and has mutated rapidly. Planning for development of supplying vaccines so the situation can be controlled, public health administration is imperative to ensure that the Thai health system is safe from the epidemic. The Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, is related to health systems as one of the Three Pillars of Sustainability: Society, Economy, and Environment.  In addition, due to migration of public health personnel to local government administrations, it is relevant to public health administration in the future. Public health personnel are therefore extremely important in the sustainable health system development, because they are frontline personnel who have sacrifices, and provide public health care. Therefore, the strategy for developing health care personnel is to improve capacity, potential, knowledge and competency, which will enable public health workers to work effectively in a sustainable health system.