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Using economic levers to change behaviour: The case of Thailand's universal coverage health care reforms

David Hughes, Songkramchai Leethongdee, Sunantha Osiri

Social Science & Medicine, Volume: 70, Issue: 3, Pages: 447 - 454

Swansea University Author: David Hughes

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.10.031

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The Thai universal coverage health care policy is regarded as a knowledge-based reform involving substantial pre-planning, including expert economic analysis of the financing mechanism. This paper describes the financing system introduced from 2001 which allocated monies to local Contracted Units fo...

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ISSN: 0277-9536
Published: 2010
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description The Thai universal coverage health care policy is regarded as a knowledge-based reform involving substantial pre-planning, including expert economic analysis of the financing mechanism. This paper describes the financing system introduced from 2001 which allocated monies to local Contracted Units for Primary Care (CUPs) on the basis of population. It discusses the policy of using capitation funding to change incentive structures and engineer a transfer of professional staff from over-served urban areas to under-served rural areas. The paper employs qualitative data from national policy makers and health service staff in three north-eastern provinces to tell the story of the reforms. We found that over time government moved away from the capitation funding model as the result of (a) a macro-allocation problem arising from system disturbance and professional opposition, and (b) a micro-allocation problem that emerged when local budgets were not shared equitably. In many CUPs, the hospital directors controlling resource allocation directed funds more towards curative services than community facilities. Taken together the macro and micro problems resulted in the dilution of capitation funding and reduced the re-distributive effects of the reforms. This strand of policy foundered in the face of structural and institutional barriers to change.
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