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Universal coverage but unequal access? Experiences of health care in Northeast & South Thailand
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Thailand’s rapid economic growth has brought health challenges as well as benefits, namely a rise in life expectancy to 6.5 years above the global average, and an ‘epidemiological transition’ from infectious and deficiency diseases, to chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. Previous research in Northeast and South Thailand by the Wellbeing in Developing Countries ESRC Research Group demonstrates the importance of health to people’s subjective quality of life and wellbeing, and su...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Quality of life and the Millennium challenge: advances in quality-of-life studies, theory and research
- Series:
- Social Indicators Research Series
- Volume:
- 35
- Pages:
- 239-264
- Place of publication:
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/m26810/?p=c51a73061aa846cc8526436a72c2fbd7&pi=0
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1387-6570
- ISBN:
- 9781402085680
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:2913
- Deposit date:
- 2009-08-17
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- Springer Science and Business Media B V
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Citation: Camfield, L. (2009). Universal coverage but unequal access?: Experiences of health care in Northeast & South Thailand. In: Møller, V. & Huschka, D. (eds.) Quality of life and the Millennium challenge: advances in quality-of-life studies, theory and research (Social Indicators Research Series, Vol.35), Netherlands: Springer, pp.239-264. We are not permitted to provide full-text of this book chapter at this time, but you may be able to access the publisher's online version of the chapter by clicking on the links on this record page.
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