Funding health promotion and prevention - the Thai experience

Overview

Health promotion, disease prevention and public  health programmes are recognized as cost-effective interventions.  Because they  are public goods with significant external benefits, they  are provided free of charge to the Thai population, and are historically  funded by  general tax revenue and supply  side financing to  Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) health  facilities. 

This report is part of a series, The World Health Report 2010 Background Papers, which were written to inform the process of developing the key messages of the World Health Report 2010: Health systems financing: The path to universal coverage.