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Financing Public Health Functions for Integrated Primary Healthcare — Experience from Thailand

In: People-Centered Integrated Primary Healthcare System Development in Asia and Beyond

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  • Aungsumalee Pholpark

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An application of blended payment for disease prevention and health promotion services could be considered as a way to incentivize providers to deliver prioritized prevention and promotion services and avoid under-servicing which could happen if only capitation payment is applied.A community health fund is an innovative funding for community-based disease prevention and health promotion services, with contributions from both central and local governments. It is a pooling mechanism that enhances budget allocation for disease prevention and health promotion services in response to health needs and local priorities.The legislation on earmarked alcohol and tobacco taxes for disease prevention and health promotion creates additional sources of funding for disease prevention and health promotion as demonstrated in the case of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation. With the enactment of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation Act 2001, the Fund is financially secured and sustained.

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  • Aungsumalee Pholpark, 2025. "Financing Public Health Functions for Integrated Primary Healthcare — Experience from Thailand," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Hong Wang & Helena Legido-Quigley & Asaf Bitton (ed.), People-Centered Integrated Primary Healthcare System Development in Asia and Beyond, chapter 9, pages 283-300, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789819807468_0009
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    JEL classification:

    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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