Attitudes Influencing an Access to Health Services of Myanmar Transnational Workers: A Case Study of Thai Seafood Processing Industry in Samutsakhon Province

Abstract

The objective of this quantitative research was to study attitudes influencing an access to health services of Myanmar transnational workers: a case study of Thai seafood processing industry in Samutsakhon province. Samples were Myanmar transnational workers in Thai seafood processing industry in Samutsakhon
province and the sample size calculated by Hair et. al. (2010) was 400 workers of the population. The research instruments were Index of item – Objective Congruence tested questionnaires with the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.788. The statistics for data analysis were descriptive statistics and inferential statistics
by an analysis of the relationship between independent variables and dependent variables. The statistic 

for data analysis also included a hypothesis testing by using structural equation model. The results revealed
that the factors of workers’ attitudes (X1) had influence on an access to health services of Myanmar
transnational workers: a case study of Thai seafood processing industry in Samutsakhon province (Y) to be equal to 0.81 due to an adaptation of structural equation model to be consistent with empirical data. Considering the weight of the indicators in each factor, it was found that indicator of service communication of factors of workers’ attitudes had the weight of elements which was equal to 0.85 (x1 = 0.85). Indicator of healthcare belief had the weight of elements which was equal to 0 .7 2 (x2 = 0 .7 2 ) and indicator of nationality disparity had the weight of elements which was equal to 0.70 (x3 = 0.70). In regard to an access to health services of Myanmar transnational workers: a case study of Thai seafood processing industry in Samutsakhon province, findings showed that the fifth indicators were knowledgeable and service minded medical personnel who provided health services to transnational workers with health
insurance cards. As a result of the ability to deliver good services, the mentioned indicators had the most weight of elements to be equal to 0.85 (y5=0.85) with statistical significance at the level of .