Universal health coverage—the notion that people should be able to access healthcare services regardless of their ability to pay, and do so with financial protection—is a major focus for G7 policy makers and others around the globe. It is an important component of the sustainable development goals, leadingmany countries to increase their use of scarce public resources to ensure their citizens a...

Thailand has now reached a new demographic turning point with the advent of an ageing society [10]. The older population or population aged 60 and above increased from 1.5 million in 1960 to approximately 7.4 million in 2008, and it is expected to be 17.7 million in 2030 [14]. Since the number of elderly people is growing, the number of chronically-ill patients, including those with diabetes, h...

Healthcare systems, due to their importance and growing robustness, are often kept separate from other welfare state systems. Important changes in the healthcare systems European countries occurred at beginning of 1990s connected with introduction market healthcare. This was accompanied by a change discourse an emphasis on terms such as ‚personal responsibility‘, ‚choice‘ ‚consumers‘. replaced ...

BACKGROUND Harm reduction refers to interventions aimed at reducing the negative effects of health behaviors without necessarily extinguishing the problematic health behaviors completely. The vast majority of the harm reduction literature focuses on the harms of drug use and on specific harm reduction strategies, such as syringe exchange, rather than on the harm reduction philosophy as a whole....