Thailand's health development since the 1970s has been focused on investment in the
health delivery infrastructure at the district level and below and on training the health …

Executive summary Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development
Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a …

Health professionals often undertake private work whilst also employed by government.
Such dual practice (DP) is found in both high-income and lower-and middle-income …

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves distributing resources, especially
human resources for health (HRH), to match population needs. This paper explores the …

Despite sustained periods of political instability 1 and an underperforming economy, 2
Thailand's policy on universal health coverage (UHC) has made good progress since its …

Strategic purchasing is one of the key policy instruments to achieve the universal health
coverage (UHC) goals of improved and equitable access and financial risk protection. Given …

Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social
protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability …

Background As the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) gears toward full
regional integration by 2015, the cross-border mobility of workers and citizens at large is …

Abstract Background Thailand's Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) has improved
healthcare access and utilization since its initial introduction in 2002. However, a substantial …

Many countries have identified Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as the goal for their health
systems, and health financing reforms are at the core of strategies to move in this direction …