Download or read book Medical Insurance in Thailand written by Godfree Roberts and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR EXPATRIATES LIVING IN THAILAND ILLUSTRATED GUIDE to medical insurance in Thailand. EXPLAINS seven insurance strategies: from no insurance to full coverage by an international carrier, with sample rates and exclusions. VIDEO of expats discussing their insurance in Thailand ILLUSTRATED with charts, comparative prices, and live links to insurers. FULL DESCRIPTION OF THAI HOSPITALS, their hierarchy, standards of care, and certifications. STORIES by people who have used, refused to use, and failed to use medical insurance in Thailand. THE 37-PAGE REPORT was compiled with participation of Thailand residents, insurers, doctors, and hospitals.
Download or read book Health Insurance Systems in Thailand written by Phromporn Pramualratana and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Insurance in Thailand written by William C. Hsiao and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Future Prospects of Voluntary Health Insurance in Thailand written by Siripen Supakankunti and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Financing Reform in Thailand written by Piya Hanvoravongchai and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossing the Global Quality Chasm written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.
Download or read book Voluntary Health Insurance in Thailand written by Thienchay Kiranandana and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Millions Saved written by Amanda Glassman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution—one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children grow, and enables adults to thrive. Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health chronicles the global health revolution from the ground up, showcasing twenty-two local, national, and regional health programs that have been part of this global change. The book profiles eighteen remarkable cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in low- and middle-income countries succeeded, and four examples of promising interventions that fell short of their health targets when scaled-up in real world conditions. Each case demonstrates how much effort—and sometimes luck—is required to fight illness and sustain good health. The cases are grouped into four main categories, reflecting the diversity of strategies to improve population health in low-and middle-income countries: rolling out medicines and technologies; expanding access to health services; targeting cash transfers to improve health; and promoting population-wide behavior change to decrease risk. The programs covered also come from various regions around the world: seven from sub-Saharan Africa, six from Latin America and the Caribbean, five from East and Southeast Asia, and four from South Asia.
Download or read book Good Practices in Health Financing written by Pablo Enrique Gottret and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on nine countries that have completed, or are well along in the process of carrying out, major health financing reforms. These countries have significantly expanded their people's health care coverage or maintained such coverage after prolonged political or economic shocks (e.g., following the collapse ofthe Soviet Union). In doing so, this report seeks to expand the evidence base on "good performance" in health financing reforms in low- and middle-income countries. The countries chosen for the study were Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Vietnam.
Download or read book The Impact of Public Health Insurance Schemes on the Quality of Hospital Care in Thailand written by Chanjar Suntayakorn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thailand the Ministry of Public Health has launched many public health insurance schemes in order to provide health care for all citizens. These schemes have varying purposes, target populations, and methods of reimbursement for health facilities. In some schemes health facilities benefit financially, while in other schemes health facilities incur losses. Three major public health insurance shemes, which represent more than half of Tahiland's total population, were investigated in this study. These were the Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme (CSMBS), the Health Card Scheme (HCS), and the Social Welfare Scheme(SWS). The research reported here attempts to reveal how insurance scheme membership might be related to the quality of hospital care provided to patients. The sutdy was conducted in two large public hospitals drawing on data from caesarean section and asthma patients. Clinical processes and outcomes, as well as non-clinical processes and outcomes of hospital services were assessed. Data were both quantitative and qualitative, and were collected from patient questionnaires, in-depth semi-structured interviews of patients, direct observation and medical records.
Download or read book Legal access rights to health care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Health Insurance for Developing Nations written by R. Paul Shaw and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specialist groups have often advised health ministers and other decision makers in developing countries on the use of social health insurance (SHI) as a way of mobilizing revenue for health, reforming health sector performance, and providing universal coverage. This book reviews the specific design and implementation challenges facing SHI in low- and middle-income countries and presents case studies on Ghana, Kenya, Philippines, Colombia, and Thailand.
Download or read book Thailand s Universal Coverage Scheme written by Joanne McManus and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transition to Diagnosis Related Group DRG Payments for Health written by Caryn Bredenkamp and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how nine different health systems--U.S. Medicare, Australia, Thailand, Kyrgyz Republic, Germany, Estonia, Croatia, China (Beijing) and the Russian Federation--have transitioned to using case-based payments, and especially diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), as part of their provider payment mix for hospital care. It sheds light on why particular technical design choices were made, what enabling investments were pertinent, and what broader political and institutional issues needed to be considered. The strategies used to phase in DRG payment receive special attention. These nine systems have been selected because they represent a variety of different approaches and experiences in DRG transition. They include the innovators who pioneered DRG payment systems (namely the United States and Australia), mature systems (such as Thailand, Germany, and Estonia), and countries where DRG payments were only introduced within the past decade (such as the Russian Federation and China). Each system is examined in detail as a separate case study, with a synthesis distilling the cross-cutting lessons learned. This book should be helpful to those working on health systems that are considering introducing, or are in the early stages of introducing, DRG-based payments into their provider payment mix. It will enhance the reader's understanding of how other countries (or systems) have made that transition, give a sense of the decisions that lie ahead, and offer options that can be considered. It will also be useful to those working in health systems that already include DRG payments in the payment mix but have not yet achieved the anticipated results.
Download or read book What s In What s Out written by Amanda Glassman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for kidney patients, or channel the money toward preventing the conditions that lead to renal failure in the first place? Policymakers dealing with the realities of limited health care budgets face tough decisions like these regularly. And for many individuals, their personal health care choices are equally stark: paying for medical treatment could push them into poverty. Many low- and middle-income countries now aspire to universal health coverage, where governments ensure that all people have access to the quality health services they need without risk of impoverishment. But for universal health coverage to become reality, the health services offered must be consistent with the funds available—and this implies tough everyday choices for policymakers that could be the difference between life and death for those affected by any given condition or disease. The situation is particularly acute in low- and middle income countries where public spending on health is on the rise but still extremely low, and where demand for expanded services is growing rapidly. What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage argues that the creation of an explicit health benefits plan—a defined list of services that are and are not available—is an essential element in creating a sustainable system of universal health coverage. With contributions from leading health economists and policy experts, the book considers the many dimensions of governance, institutions, methods, political economy, and ethics that are needed to decide what’s in and what’s out in a way that is fair, evidence-based, and sustainable over time.
Download or read book Health Insurance Handbook written by Hong Wang and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many countries that subscribe to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have committed to ensuring access to basic health services for their citizens. Health insurance has been considered and promoted as the major financing mechanism to improve access to health services, as well to provide financial risk protection.
Download or read book The Impact of a Policy on Universal Coverage on Equity in Health Care Finance in Thailand written by Supon Limwattananon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Thailand. Methods: Secondary data analyses of five nationally representative household surveys in Thailand, the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Household Socio-economic Surveys, and the 2001 and 2004 Health and Welfare Surveys, in pre-universal coverage period (2000-2001) and post-universal coverage period (2002-2004). Financial and benefit incidence of the entire population prior to and after universal coverage was analyzed. Results: After the implementation of the UC policy, the benefit incidence of public spending on health was more pro-poor, especially at the district health system which included health centers and district hospitals. In 2004, the concentration indexes of benefit incidence of ambulatory care was -0.3326, -0.2921, and -0.1496 for health centre, district hospitals, and provincial hospitals, respectively. Progressivity in benefit incidence of hospitalization at provincial hospitals was weaker, and its concentration index was -0.1104 and -0.1221 in 2001 and 2004, respectively. The incidence of catastrophic health expenditure (defined as OOP payments for health care more than 10% of total household consumption expenditure) reduced from 5.4% in 2000 to 3.3% and 2.8% in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Reduction in catastrophic incidence is a result of the policy on universal coverage which provides a comprehensive health insurance coverage for ambulatory services, hospital admissions, and other high cost care with a very small nominal fee. Three major policy interventions contributing to the pro-poor nature of health care systems in Thailand were: 1) the extension of health insurance coverage to the formal and informal sectors; 2) the extensive of geographical coverage of health service infrastructure; and 3) the mandatory rural services by all medical, nursing, pharmacists, and dental graduates. The current tax-funded UC scheme further fosters the pro-poor health care finance in Thailand.
