Policy Briefing Thailand Good Health at the low cost
Why Thailand got better health results than countries with similar incomes — an LSHTM case study on maternal and child health, district health systems, and four decades of pro-rural policy.
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Feature articles and explainer pieces on NHSO programmes and UCS policy.
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UCS Prevention Promotion fact sheet
An NHSO fact sheet on prevention and health promotion under universal coverage — the benefits by age group, how the budget is split, what it achieved, and the community health funds behind it.
Policy Brief on UHC
Seventeen policy lessons from Thailand's first decade of universal coverage — why a country need not be rich to achieve it, how to widen fiscal space for health, and what still needs fixing.
UCS Profile 2017
A profile of Thailand's universal coverage as of 2016 — 99.95% of the population covered, the path from user fees to the 2002 Act, child and maternal protection, NHSO governance, and what the benefit package does and does not include.
Stagnation in UHC Implementation Statement
A 2018 Bellagio meeting report on why universal coverage is stalling worldwide — the political and technical constraints behind slow progress, and a matrix of actions for governments, donors, academia, and civil society.
Universal for Mothers and Child UHC Thailand
Case studies on maternal and child health under Thai universal coverage — antenatal care and thalassemia screening, eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission, iodine deficiency control, and the birth defects and online birth registries.