RESUMO
This review of legislation, obstacles faced, and challenges to be met, outlines present tobacco control lessons learnt in Thailand. A review of over twenty years of tobacco control experience in Thailand is provided in seven areas including policy formulation and the role of civil society, as well as in essential WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control areas. A descriptive, historical review shows how stakeholders, policies and resources were mobilized in Thailand, and what lessons resource-challenged countries might use from the Thai experience.
Assuntos
Política de Saúde , Fumar/legislação & jurisprudência , Humanos , Fumar/epidemiologia , Impostos , Tailândia/epidemiologia , Poluição por Fumaça de Tabaco/legislação & jurisprudênciaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Global health is shifting gradually from a limited focus on individual communicable disease goals to the formulation of broader sustainable health development goals. A major impediment to this shift is that most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have not established adequate sustainable funding for health promotion and health infrastructure. OBJECTIVE: In this article, we analyze how Thailand, a middle-income country, created a mechanism for sustainable funding for health. DESIGN: We analyzed the progression of tobacco control and health promotion policies over the past three decades within the wider political-economic and sociocultural context. We constructed a parallel longitudinal analysis of statistical data on one emerging priority - road accidents - to determine whether policy shifts resulted in reduced injuries, hospitalizations and deaths. RESULTS: In Thailand, the convergence of priorities among national interest groups for sustainable health development created an opportunity to use domestic tax policy and to create a semi-autonomous foundation (ThaiHealth) to address a range of pressing health priorities, including programs that substantially reduced road accidents. CONCLUSIONS: Thailand's strategic process to develop a domestic mechanism for sustainable funding for health may provide LMICs with a roadmap to address emerging health priorities, especially those caused by modernization and globalization.
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Apoio Financeiro , Prioridades em Saúde/economia , Internacionalidade , Impostos/economia , Acidentes de Trânsito/economia , Acidentes de Trânsito/prevenção & controle , Países em Desenvolvimento , Fundações/economia , Saúde Global , Promoção da Saúde , Humanos , Estudos Longitudinais , TailândiaRESUMO
This review of legislation, obstacles faced, and challenges to be met, outlines present tobacco control lessons learnt in Thailand. A review of over twenty years of tobacco control experience in Thailand is provided in seven areas including policy formulation and the role of civil society, as well as in essential WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control areas. A descriptive, historical review shows how stakeholders, policies and resources were mobilized in Thailand, and what lessons resource-challenged countries might use from the Thai experience.