Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1445904 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Viroj Tangcharoensathien |
| PRENOMES | Viroj |
| SOBRENOME | Tangcharoensathien |
| ASSINATURA | TANGCHAROENSATHIEN V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ministry of Public Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3235-0091 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Municipal officials’ perspectives on challenges and opportunities in shaping urban built environments for active living in Thailand
INTRODUCTION: Municipalities play a critical role in shaping built environments that support active living, yet little is known about how municipal officials interpret these agendas, implement them or balance them with competing policy demands. This study explores how municipal officials in urban Thailand perceive and implement built environment strategies, manage constraints and identify opportunities to promote active living. METHODS: We conduc…
Sustaining the adequacy and competency of CDC Staff in China after Covid-19
We examine the significant increase in staffing at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the COVID-19 pandemic and compare it to the staffing changes post-2003 SARS outbreak. This analysis views the surge not only as compensation for long-term understaffing, but also as a response to the immediate demands of the COVID-19 crisis. We explore the implications of this increase, addressing the financial burden it impose…
Maternal Experiences and Perspectives of Marketing and Regulation of Commercial Milk Formula in Thailand
Commercial milk formula (CMF) marketing adversely influences breastfeeding practices globally. Thailand enacted the Control of Marketing Promotion of Infant and Young Child Food Act ('Thai Code') in 2017 to restrict the marketing of CMF for infants aged 0-12 months. This qualitative study aimed to explore mothers' experiences and perspectives of CMF marketing and its regulation by the Thai Code through semistructured interviews with 15 mothers ac…
Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella in Canal Water in Bangkok, Thailand
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in environmental reservoirs is an emerging global health concern, particularly in urban settings with inadequate wastewater management. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and resistance profiles of Salmonella spp. in canal water in Bangkok and assess the distribution of key antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Between 2016 and 2019, a total of 1381 water samples were collected from 29 canals. Salmonella s…
How inclusive were strategies to prevent the spread of Covid-19 for people with disabilities? Evidence from qualitative research in eight low- and middle-income countries
Consequently, the pandemic compounded existing barriers and inaccessibility experienced by people with disabilities and contributed to inequality
Thailand's Rural Doctor Movement
Thailand's Rural Doctor Movement (RDM) is a “civic movement” organized by rural doctors who are officials in the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH). RDM's political consciousness and ideologies for social justice were cultivated by their exposures to student activism and repression in October 1973 and 1976 and fostered by the exposure to poverty and ill‐health in rural communities while doing compulsory medical service in rural hospitals in the 197…
Governance, policy, and health systems responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Thailand
Background: Since 2020, Thailand has experienced four waves of COVID-19. By 31 January 2022, there were 2.4 million cumulative cases and 22,176 deaths nationwide. This study assessed the governance and policy responses adapted to different sizes of the pandemic outbreaks and other challenges. Methods: A qualitative study was applied, including literature reviews and in-depth interviews with 17 multi-sectoral actors purposively identified from tho…
Thinking politically about intersectoral action
Our paper examines the political considerations in the intersectoral action that was evident during the SAR-COV-2 virus (COVID-19) pandemic through case studies of political and institutional responses in 16 nations (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, UK, and USA). Our qualitative case study approach involved an iterative process of data gathering a…
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Healthcare-Associated Infections among Hospitalized Pediatric Patients
The prevalence of HAIs in hospitalized pediatric patients was 3.9%. Extended LOS and use of CVC were HAI risk factors. A strategy for reducing LOS and reviewing insertion indications or the early planned removal of a CVC was implemented. The surveillance of HAIs stands as a cornerstone and fundamental component of IPC, offering invaluable insights that enhance hospital IPC interventions aimed at preventing HAIs
Pro-environmental behavior (PEB) across different demographic compositions of the Bhutanese population
Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health
Learning from pandemic responses
This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ’. The third quarter of 2022 saw COVID-19 cases and deaths in Thailand reduced significantly, and high levels of COVID-19 vaccine coverage. COVID-19 was declared an “endemic” disease, and economic activities resumed. This paper reviews pre-pandemic health systems capacity and identifies pandemic response strengths, weaknesses an…
Children orphaned from Covid-19 in Thailand
Orphans, especially those who experience maternal loss at a young age, face significant long-term negative impacts on their lives and psychological well-being, extending beyond the age of 18. As of July 2023, the global death toll of COVID-19 has reached 6.9 million, leaving behind an unknown number of orphans who require immediate attention and support from policymakers. In Thailand, from April 2020 to July 2022, the total number of COVID-19-rel…
Illustrating the impact of commercial determinants of health on the global Covid-19 pandemic
Previous research on commercial determinants of health has primarily focused on their impact on non-communicable diseases. However, they also impact on infectious diseases and on the broader preconditions for health. We describe, through case studies in 16 countries, how commercial determinants of health were visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they may have influenced national responses and health outcomes. We use a comparative qualita…
Procedural fairness in benefit package design
Since 2002, Thailand’s Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) has adopted a comprehensive benefits package with few exclusions. A positive-list approach has gradually been applied, with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) of HIV recently being included. Disagreements resulting from competing values and diverging interests necessitate an emphasis on procedural fairness when making any decisions. This qualitative study analyses agenda setting, policy formulat…
Incidence of catastrophic health spending in Indonesia
This study demonstrated that the overall incidence of CHS decreased in Indonesia between 2018 and 2019. OOP payments for health care and the risk of CHS still loom high among JKN members and among the lowest income households. More needs to be done to further contain OOP payments and further research is needed to investigate whether CHS pushes households below the poverty line
Universal access to comprehensive Covid-19 services for everyone in Thailand
Despite Thailand having had universal health coverage (UHC) with comprehensive benefit packages since 2002, services are neither listed nor budget earmarked for COVID-19 responses. Policy decisions were made immediately after the first outbreak in 2020 to fully fund a comprehensive benefit package for COVID-19. The Cabinet approved significant additional budget to respond to the unfolding pandemic. The comprehensive benefit package includes labor…
Covid-19 public health and social measures
The COVID-19 pandemic will not be the last of its kind. As the world charts a way towards an equitable and resilient recovery, Public Health and Social Measures (PHSMs) that were implemented since the beginning of the pandemic need to be made a permanent feature of health systems that can be activated and readily deployed to tackle sudden surges in infections going forward. Although PHSMs aim to blunt the spread of the virus, and in turn protect …
Multi-dimensional impacts of Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on Sustainable Development Goal achievement
Thailand Achievement of SDG Indicator 4.2.1 on Early Child Development
The early years of a child's life are the foundation for their future capability development. Poor health, hunger, poverty, low parental education, lack of parental interaction, high screen time, and poor housing environment hamper their development. There is little evidence of a link between early child development (ECD) and sociodemographic factors in Thailand. In response to monitoring the achievement of SDG target 4.2.1 (the proportion of you…
Mental health preparedness and response during the Covid-19 pandemic
Globally, mental health disorders have claimed more than 14% of age-standardized years living with disability for three decades and have >10% prevalence in all geographical regions These findings substantiate an immediate need for strengthening mental health systems. Given large demands for mental health services, the mental health systems in low-and middle-income countries appear inadequate due to low public investment and limited health workfor…
Self-Reported Parental Interactions through Play with Young Children in Thailand
Parental interactions through play contributes significantly to child development of cognitive and executive functioning skills. In Thailand, there is little evidence of factors contributing to parental-child interactions. In response to SDG target 4.2.3 monitoring (the percentage of children under 5 years experiencing positive and stimulating home learning environments), this study aimed to assess the prevalence and profile of parental interacti…
Thailand Prevalence and Profile of Food Insecurity in Households with under Five Years Children
This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and profile of food insecurity in households with children under 5 years old using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) in Thailand. We integrated FIES into the 2019 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). A total of 861 households were successfully interviewed with FIES. The Rasch model was applied to examine the validity and reliability. Multiple logistic regression was used to assess the as…
Participatory and responsive governance in universal health coverage
Participatory and responsive governance in universal health coverage (UHC) systems synergistically ensure the needs of citizens are protected and met. In Thailand, UHC constitutes of three public insurance schemes: Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme, Social Health Insurance and Universal Coverage Scheme. Each scheme is governed through individual laws. This study aimed to identify, analyse and compare the legislative provisions related to parti…
Mortality estimates for WHO Sear countries
Cause-specific mortality estimates for 11 countries located in the WHO’s South East Asia Region (WHO SEAR) are generated periodically by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and the WHO Global Health Estimates (GHE) analyses. A comparison of GBD and GHE estimates for 2019 for 11 specific causes of epidemiological importance to South East Asia was undertaken. An index of relative difference (RD) between the estimated numbers of deaths by sex for eac…
Private obstetric practice in a public hospital
Health impacts of rapid economic changes in Thailand
Influencing policy change
In recent years there has been a growth in the number of independent health policy analysis institutes in low- and middle-income countries which has occurred in response to the limitation of government analytical capacity and pressures associated with democratization. This study aimed to: (i) investigate the contribution made by health policy analysis institutes in low- and middle-income countries to health policy agenda setting, formulation, imp…
Trends and inequities in where women delivered their babies in 25 low-income countries
In low-income countries, the coverage of institutional births is low. Using data from the two most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (1995–2001 and 2001–2006) for 25 low-income countries, this study examined trends in where women delivered their babies – public or private facilities or non-institutional settings. More than half of deliveries were in institutional settings in ten countries, mostly public facilities. In the other 15 countries, …
Induced Abortion in Thailand
Abortion is illegal in Thailand unless the woman’s health is at risk or pregnancy is due to rape. This study, carried out in 1999 in 787 government hospitals, examined the magnitude and profile of abortion in Thailand, using data collected prospectively through a review of 45,990 case records (of which 28.5% were classified as induced and 71.5% as spontaneous abortions) and face-to-face interviews with a sub-set of 1,854 women patients. The estim…
Pro-environmental behavior (PEB) across different demographic compositions of the Bhutanese population
Equity of access to and utilization of reproductive health services in Thailand
This study assessed trends in equity of access to reproductive health services and service utilization in terms of coverage of family planning, antenatal care and skilled birth attendance in Thailand. Two health indicators were measured: the prevalence of low birthweight and exclusive breastfeeding. Equity was measured against the combined urban-rural areas and geographic regions, women's education level and quintiles of household assets index. T…
Intrauterine contraceptive devices
Intrauterine contraceptive devices: comparing health centre and district hospital costs in Thailand Get access Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Viroj Tangcharoensathien 1Ministry of Public HealthBangkok, Thailand Correspondence: Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Health Planning Division, Ministry of Public Health, Theves, Bangkok 10200, Thailand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Peeraphon Suthivisessak, Peeraphon Su…
Health impacts of rapid economic changes in Thailand
Universal Coverage and Its Impact on Reproductive Health Services in Thailand
Thailand has recently introduced universal health care coverage for 45 million of its people, financed by general tax revenue. A capitation contract model was adopted to purchase ambulatory and hospital care, and preventive care and promotion, including reproductive health services, from public and private service providers. This paper describes the health financing system prior to universal coverage, and the extent to which Thailand has achieved…
ICPD Goals and Targets Worth Revisiting in the Context of Health Sector Reforms
AT the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 countries endorsed a Programme of Action containing a broad range of goals and targets in the broad area of sexual and reproductive health. In 1996 the World Health Organization (WHO) organised an interagency technical process that led to the selection of 15 global indicators for monitoring reproductive health targets to which two additional ones were later added in orde…
Induced Abortion in Thailand
Abortion is illegal in Thailand unless the woman’s health is at risk or pregnancy is due to rape. This study, carried out in 1999 in 787 government hospitals, examined the magnitude and profile of abortion in Thailand, using data collected prospectively through a review of 45,990 case records (of which 28.5% were classified as induced and 71.5% as spontaneous abortions) and face-to-face interviews with a sub-set of 1,854 women patients. The estim…
Private obstetric practice in a public hospital
Abortion in Asia
Gammeltoft Chapter 4: Violence, Poverty and 'Weakness'- Interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion Suzanne Belton Chapter 5: Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh Sabina Faiz Rashid Chapter 6: Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu: Balancing costs and quality of care Lakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J Pelto Chapter 7: Abortion in Vietna…
Confidence in vaccines in developing countries
As a public health measure, vaccination is unique in its extraordinary capacity to control and eliminate diseases. Yet, to achieve this, it is necessary to administer, usually by injection, a potentially harmful substance to healthy children. It is not surprising then that vaccination has provoked heated debates and arguments ever since vaccines were first used.1 Families in developing countries, where the burden of disease is still dominated by …
Burden of disease in Thailand
The study highlights unique pattern of disease burden in Thailand whereby epidemiological transition have occurred as non-communicable diseases were on the rise but burden from HIV/AIDS resulting from the epidemic in the 1990s remains high and injuries show negligent change. Lessons point that assessing DALY over time critically requires continuing improvement in data sources particularly on cause of death statistics, institutional capacity and l…
Is a HIV vaccine a viable option and at what price? An economic evaluation of adding HIV vaccination into existing prevention programs in Thailand
The approach used in this study differentiated it from other economic evaluations and can be applied for the economic evaluation of other health interventions not available in healthcare systems. This study is important not only for researchers conducting future HIV vaccine research but also for policy decision makers who, in the future, will consider vaccine adoption
Equity of access to and utilization of reproductive health services in Thailand
This study assessed trends in equity of access to reproductive health services and service utilization in terms of coverage of family planning, antenatal care and skilled birth attendance in Thailand. Two health indicators were measured: the prevalence of low birthweight and exclusive breastfeeding. Equity was measured against the combined urban-rural areas and geographic regions, women's education level and quintiles of household assets index. T…
Trends and inequities in where women delivered their babies in 25 low-income countries
In low-income countries, the coverage of institutional births is low. Using data from the two most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (1995–2001 and 2001–2006) for 25 low-income countries, this study examined trends in where women delivered their babies – public or private facilities or non-institutional settings. More than half of deliveries were in institutional settings in ten countries, mostly public facilities. In the other 15 countries, …
Innovation and participation for healthy public policy
Aim This paper aims to describe and disseminate the process and initial outcomes of the first National Health Assembly (NHA) in Thailand, as an innovative example of health policy making. Setting The first NHA, held in December 2008 in Bangkok, brought together over 1500 people from government agencies, academia, civil society, health professionals and the private sector to discuss key health issues and produce resolutions to guide policy making.…
Prevalence and profiles of unmet healthcare need in Thailand
The low prevalence of unmet need for both outpatient and inpatient services is a result of the availability of well-functioning health services at the most peripheral level, and of the comprehensive benefit package offered free of charge by all health insurance schemes. This assessment prompts a need for regular monitoring of unmet need in nationally-representative household surveys
Why has the Universal Coverage Scheme in Thailand achieved a pro-poor public subsidy for health care
Higher utilization and better financial risk protection benefiting the poor UCS members are the results of extensive geographical coverage of health service infrastructure especially at district level, adequate finance and functioning primary healthcare, comprehensive benefit package and zero copayment at points of services
Influencing policy change
In recent years there has been a growth in the number of independent health policy analysis institutes in low- and middle-income countries which has occurred in response to the limitation of government analytical capacity and pressures associated with democratization. This study aimed to: (i) investigate the contribution made by health policy analysis institutes in low- and middle-income countries to health policy agenda setting, formulation, imp…
Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on
Thailand’s HIV/Aids program after weaning-off the global fund’s support
A pooled funding mechanism from multiple domestic sources was proposed. Replacing the conventional public-financed-public-service by a contractual model was preferable. The GF should continue funding the non-Thai KAP and migrant as transition mechanism. Multi-countries or regional programs especially at the border areas were priorities
Commentary
Thailand has achieved wide access to health services, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, through two major reforms (Balabanova et al., 2013). Beginning in the early 1980s, physical barriers to care were minimised by increased investment in the health system, particularly nation-wide expansion of well-functioning primary health care (PHC) to all sub-districts, and expansion of financial risk-protection mechanisms. Equity in a…
Post universal health coverage trend and geographical inequalities of mortality in Thailand
A decline in the adult mortality inequality across almost all regions of Thailand followed universal health coverage. Inequalities in child mortality rates and among residents of Greater Bangkok need further exploration
Auxiliary midwives in hard to reach rural areas of Myanmar
Comprehensive support system and national policy are needed to sustain and strengthen the contributions of AMWs, in sharing the workload of midwives, particularly in hard-to-reach areas of Myanmar
Contributions of national and global health estimates to monitoring health-related Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) triggered increased demand for data on child and maternal mortality for monitoring progress. With the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and growing evidence of an epidemiological transition towards non-communicable diseases, policy makers need data on mortality and disease trends and distribution to inform effective policies and support monitoring progress. Where there are limited capacitie…
Effective implementation of the UNCRPD by Thailand State Party
BACKGROUND: The Thai government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2008, and the first progress report by the State Party was issued in 2012. This study assesses and identifies gaps in the Government's implementation of the Convention. METHODS: Using the Deming Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle as an analytical framework for continuous quality improvement, we reviewed five documents which are: the …
Area-level socioeconomic deprivation and mortality differentials in Thailand
Socially deprived areas have an excess of overall and cause specific deaths. Populations living in more affluent areas, despite low general mortality, still have many preventable deaths such as colorectal cancer. These findings warrant future epidemiological studies investigating various causes of excessive deaths in non-deprived areas and implementation of policies to reduce the mortality gap between rich and poor areas
Level of implementation of best practice policies for creating healthy food environments
Objective To determine and compare the level of implementation of policies for healthy food environments in Thailand with reference to international best practice by state and non-state actors. Design Data on the current level of implementation of food environment policies were assessed independently using the adapted Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) by two groups of actors. Concrete actions were proposed for Thai Government. A jo…
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