Publication: At the crossroads: Challenges for thailand's health development
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1993-09-01
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02681080
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Mahidol University
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Health Policy and Planning. Vol.8, No.3 (1993), 208-216
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Yongyout Kachondham, Somsak Chunharas At the crossroads: Challenges for thailand's health development. Health Policy and Planning. Vol.8, No.3 (1993), 208-216. doi:10.1093/heapol/8.3.208 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/22705
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At the crossroads: Challenges for thailand's health development
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Over the past twenty years, Thailand has undergone rapid economic and health (demographic, epidemiological) transitions. While on the one hand the economic outlook is bright, even to the extent of Thailand's emerging status as a Newly Industrialized Country, persisting health development challenges remain as targets for future research and international support. This paper documents Thailand's current economic and health development situations, their transitions and challenges. Special reference is made towards emerging post-transitional health/epidemiological problems, reorientation of health services and the referral system, community participation, health care financing, public-private health care partnerships, decentralization of the health service system and essential national health research. © 1993 Oxford University Press.