Obesity is becoming a global concern because many non-communicable diseases are attributable to obesity. Though it is highly prevalent in developed countries, obesity is quickly growing to be of concern in low- and middle-income countries such as Thailand, primarily due to the potential strain...

Objectives: To analyze trends and patterns of the distribution of benefit incidence and out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health care of individuals in relation to the distribution of household living standards prior to and after implementation of the policy on universal coverage (UC) in...

The health insurance card scheme was introduced as the Health Card Project (HCP) in 1983. This program was based on the risk sharing of health expenditures with no cost sharing in a voluntary health insurance prepayment scheme. Frequent adjustments in both the strategies and objectives of the...