How Thailand's greater convergence created sustainable funding for emerging health priorities caused by globalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19530331 |
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| Authors | Naowarut Charoenca (Mahidol University), Nipapun Kungskulniti (Mahidol University, corresponding author), Jeremiah Mock (0000-0003-3851-4229, The University of Osaka), Stephen Hamann (Mahidol University), Prakit Vathesatogkit |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28630 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Health Action (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1654-9716 • E-ISSN: 1654-9880 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3402/gha.v8.28630 |
| PMID | 26328948 |
| OpenAlex | W2164545594 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
BACKGROUND: Global health is shifting gradually from a limited focus on individual communicable disease goals to the formulation of broader sustainable health development goals. A major impediment to this shift is that most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have not established adequate sustainable funding for health promotion and health infrastructure. OBJECTIVE: In this article, we analyze how Thailand, a middle-income country, created a mechanism for sustainable funding for health. DESIGN: We analyzed the progression of tobacco control and health promotion policies over the past three decades within the wider political-economic and sociocultural context. We constructed a parallel longitudinal analysis of statistical data on one emerging priority - road accidents - to determine whether policy shifts resulted in reduced injuries, hospitalizations and deaths. RESULTS: In Thailand, the convergence of priorities among national interest groups for sustainable health development created an opportunity to use domestic tax policy and to create a semi-autonomous foundation (ThaiHealth) to address a range of pressing health priorities, including programs that substantially reduced road accidents. CONCLUSIONS: Thailand's strategic process to develop a domestic mechanism for sustainable funding for health may provide LMICs with a roadmap to address emerging health priorities, especially those caused by modernization and globalization
Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Emerging markets · Global health · Globalization · Health care · Market economy · Political science · Global Maternal and Child Health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Finance
| Highly cited | No |
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