Strengthening Community Health on the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy

Abstract

Healthy communities are the process of supporting good health for people in their communities through involvement in healthcare. To strengthen physical health as a prerequisite for good health and avoid disease through learning and knowledge management in a variety of formats based on the social environment that is suitable for a lifestyle, local wisdom, resources, and culture in the community. The sufficient economy philosophy is used as a tool to strengthen the healthy community, with the principle of sufficiency, moderation, reasonableness, and self-immunity, as well as in consumption and lifestyle, in order to knowingly understand social change and deal with the changes with intellectual contemplation. Strengthening the healthy community is a way to build a healthy body—that means moderation, a healthy mind—rational, society—having morals to live with other people, and healthy intellect—to have better immunity and have the knowledge to live in society happily.