Performance of health product risk management and surveillance conducted by health personnel at sub-district health promotion hospitals in the northeast region of Thailand

Figures & data

Table 1 Demographic characteristics (n=380)

Factors	Frequency (%)	Median (IQR)
Sex, male	194 (51.1)
Position, a director of SD-HPH	237 (62.4)
Years of taking charge of HP-RM&S		10 (4.20)
Educational attainment
Diploma in public health*	25 (6.6)
Bachelor degree	310 (81.6)
Master degree	45 (11.8)
Professional background
Public health	329 (86.6)
Nurse	51 (13.4)

Note:

* Two years of study after high school.

Abbreviations: SD-HPH, sub-district health promotion hospital; HP-RM&S, health product risk management and surveillance; IQR, interquartile range.

Table 2 Performance rate of HP-RM&S by activity item (n=380)

Activities	Performance rate (%)
Surveillance for unsafe health products
– Planning and scheduling for routine health product inspection	77.9
– Inspecting health products in catchment area	83.9
– Analyzing problems of area health products	76.8
– Working with the community to develop intervention/mechanism to protect communities from unsafe health products	80.5
Surveillance for inappropriate advertisements of health products
– Planning and scheduling for health product advertisement monitoring	67.4
– Monitoring health product advertisements	65.0
Investigation of complaints related to health products
– Arranging channels for consumers to lodge complaints	74.5
– Investigating complaints or transferring complaints to responsible organizations	71.6
– Following up the transferred complaints	69.5
Building and strengthening consumers’ networks
– Plan for capacity building of consumers’ networks	71.1
– Organizing necessary training for consumers’ networks	68.9
– Organizing activities to enable co-operation among different consumers’ networks	67.4
– Organizing knowledge management among consumers’ networks	64.7
Maintaining databases necessary for HP-RM&S
– Updating databases of health product producers and distributors	81.3
– Updating databases of consumers’ networks	69.7

Note: Performance rate = (number of health personnel that performed activity item/380)×100.

Abbreviation: HP-RM&S, health product risk management and surveillance.

Table 3 Factors associated with job performance in health product risk management and surveillance (n=380)

Factors	Adj OR (95% CI)
Position in SD-HPH
Director	1*
Not a director	1.7 (1.1, 2.7)
Attending training related to HP-RM&S
≤1 time a year	1*
>1 time a year	1.7 (1.1, 2.6)
Level of support from communities
Score <3.41	1*
Score ≥3.41	2.5 (1.5, 4.1)

Notes: Job performance was defined as a completion of all 15 HP-RM&S activities being assigned.

* Reference group. Adj OR (95% CI): Adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval), multiple logistic regression.

Abbreviations: SD-HPH, sub-district health promotion hospital; HP-RM&S, health product risk management and surveillance.

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