The Role of Buddhist Monks on Health Promotion in Chonburi Province: A Case Study

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the Buddhist monks’ roles of Health promotion towards people in Chonburi Province and 2) to compare the roles of Buddhist monks with different factors namely age, years of monkhood, position, kind of temple and academic standing. A questionnaire was used to survey their opinion on the Buddhist monks’ roles of health promotion towards people in Chonburi Province.

It was found that the Buddhist monks’ roles of health promotion towards people in Chonburi were at the middle level in terms of bodily health promotion, mental health promotion and spiritual health promotion.

With regard to the Buddhist monks’ roles of health promotion in Chonburi, it was found that monks with different ethical and secular academic standing had difference in the roles of health promotion. Moreover, this research has also found new information that education in Pali language had no effect on their roles of health promotion.