GUIDELINE FOR BUDDHISM MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL HEALTH SECURITY FUND

Abstract

                Local Health Security Fund (LHSF) was established in 2006 with the intention of National Health Security Act, B.E. 2545. Nowadays, there were 7,738 funds with 99.51 % of all Sub-district administrative organizations and municipalities. The LHSF focused on the participation of Local Administrative Organizations in looking after the health of the people and increasing the access of the public health service thoroughly by the process of the people and organization participation in the area for the management of the health system to the community health system strongly. The source of investment fund had 3 sources: National Health Security Fund, Local Administrative Organizations and others. In 13 years of the operation, the problems were the management of LHSF covering on planning, organizing, personnel, directing and controlling.

                The Buddhist management was the process of the application of Buddhist teachings for the link with the management theory to build the body of knowledge and approach to the practicers, and the approach for the management of LHSF by the application of Aparihàniyadhamma that was the Buddhist principle leading never to the decline as the frame for the synthesis. It was found that the approach for the Buddhist management of LHSF should apply the principle of 4 Respects: 4R consisting of 1) Respect for the meetings,    2) Respect for rules and regulations, 3) Respect for all people in community, and 4) Respect for community ethics and doctrines.