Chitpranee Vasavid

TL;DR: The overall prevalence of absolute poverty in these countries was 14% higher than conventional estimates that do not take account of out-of-pocket payments for health care, and policies to reduce the number of Asians living on less than 1 dollar per day need to include measures to reduce such payments.

TL;DR: This work estimates the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population and focuses on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments by those absorbing a large fraction of household resources.

TL;DR: Health status among subjects wholived in northern region, out-municipality, had income in poorest quintile, or were in Universal Coverage (30 baht) scheme were lowest, and validity of the 9-THAI was examined.

TL;DR: Policy options for the extension of access to renal replacement therapy (RRT) under universal coverage in Thailand mainly relied on efficiency in utilizing government health resources and equity in access to health services to achieve ethical principles.

TL;DR: This study aimed to analyze coverage of public health insurance, changes in the morbidity rate, and pattern of health service utilization among those covered by different health insurance schemes before and after Universal Coverage (UC) to determine success and failure of the Universal Health Insurance Coverage scheme.