Funding, Coverage, and Access Under Thailand’s Universal Health Insurance Program: An Update After Ten Years

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 157-166

  Damrongplasit, Kannika ^a   Melnick, Glenn ^b,c  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; COST; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THAILAND; TRENDS;

COST SHARING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; THAILAND; UNCOMPENSATED CARE; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84939975346     PISSN: 11755652     EISSN: 11791896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40258-014-0148-z     Document Type: Article

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