ลักษณะความเหลื่อมล้ำในแต่ละมิติของลูกบาศก์หลักประกันสุขภาพถ้วนหน้า: ข้อค้นพบจากข้อมูลสำรวจภาวะเศรษฐกิจและสังคมของครัวเรือน พ.ศ. 2563

Theepakorn Jithitikulchai

Authors

Theepakorn Jithitikulchai Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Keywords:

universal health coverage (UHC), quality of service (QoS), efficiency, universal coverage scheme (UCS), civil servant medical benefit scheme (CSMBS)

Abstract

Thailand could achieve the goals of the universal health coverage (UHC). But there are some remaining challenges on inequities in cost protection and quality of services. This study endeavored to report the country’s inequity situation in terms of coverages of population, cost, and services. Using the 2020 Household Socio-Economic Survey, the analysis covered disparities across health insurance schemes, household wealth quintile, sex, age group, region, and urban/rural area. The results show that the highest inequity was among different health insurance schemes of the UHC system. Therefore, it is essential to implement national health reform to solve the disparity issues by integration of the health insurance schemes.

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