The Local Public Policy with Planetary Health using Executive Information System

Abstract

Planetary health involves balancing the needs and sustaining the world in order to preserve the health and the well-being of humankind based on the environmental changes of the earth. To improve the foundation of human well-being, the local public policy was initiated for development. The developed process led to environmental improvements. Thus, providing the foundation for human well-being from local public policy to reduce environmental impacts. This paper proposed the decision for a support system and aims to study the local policies formulation process considering the planetary health at Makhamtia Sub-District, Muang District, Suratthani Province, Thailand for local administrative organization chief executive decision making. This work leads to the tool, called PH-EIS system, of local planning support, decision making and management to achieve a balance between human needs and sustainable planetary health. The presented tool applies information technology with a web-based geographic information system to visualize data and to assist environmental monitoring before the real situation occurs by using the previous case learning. The implemented system was deployed in the policy formulation of local administrative organization. This work is tested by the developer and user groups and the result shows that the users are satisfied with the system and denotes the environmental impacts with high accuracy.