Proceedings on Health Inequality and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC): A Regional Perspective: International Joint Conference between Mahidol University and De La Salle University 19th and 20th August 2 ...
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Accession Number88794
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TitleProceedings on Health Inequality and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC): A Regional Perspective: International Joint Conference between Mahidol University and De La Salle University 19th and 20th August 2013 at SD Avenue Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
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Material TypeProceeding
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LanguageEnglish
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Pagexxiii, 310 p.
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Year2013
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SubjectsAEC, ASEAN, ASCC, health services, public health, discrimination, health economics, AIDS, HIV, mental health, patients, chronic diseases, health system, social equity, human rights, migrant workers, indigenous population, medicinal drugs, free trade, international trade, access to health care, Thais, Cambodians, Burmese, trade liberalization, Thailand, Nakorn Si Thammarat
Consists of 13 research articles covering many areas of ASEAN countries. Contains issues related to health care system in various aspects: humanized health care, marginalized populations, migrant workers, health inequity, health care and pharmaceutical management. Deals with law establishment to reduce malpractices and discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS in ASEAN and investigation of humanized healthcare teaching in mental illness nursing. Reviews Thailand's implications of European Union's patient mobility and ASEAN framework of trade liberalization in health systems as well as eradication of inequity gaps in maternal health care accessibility the lower- income mother using social development perspective. Analyzes Thai's uses of culturally adapted cognitive behavioral therapy for methamphetamine addiction, packing with the focus on health unfairness to vulnerable populations along with suggestions for reducing the inequity. Identifies the causes and transitions of rights violations among foreign and Thai workers along with the difficulties to access to Thai health services and the suffering of infectious diseases related to housing and sanitation that deeply affect the migrant workers in Thailand. Studies Thai indigenous healer's status after the launching of the medical practices controlling law and management on Thai herbal medicine reinforcement Thai health systems using and learning more of Thai herbal medicine.
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