Universal Health Care Coverage is one important policy recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) to governments in both developed and developing countries (WHO, 1999, 2000). Thailand implemented a policy of universal coverage of health care to enhance its health care coverage (UC) scheme. It is therefore difficult to evaluate policy effectiveness without specified criteria for evaluating the framework through which one could apply policy effectiveness without specified criteria for evaluating the framework through which one could apply policy evaluation tools. The first paper of this three paper series identified potential evaluation criteria for the universal health care coverage program by analysing experiences of developed countries in achieving universal health care coverage and the reform programs they implemented. The second paper identified and examined the criteria for evaluation of the Universal Health Care Coverage scheme in Thailand which reported on qualitative data gathered by the researcher through in-depth interviews with six top executives of private hospitals in Thailand. / These findings from the top executives of private hospitals have been instrumental in exploring the impacts to health providers, the health care practice and public policy for the UC implementation which explored by using different views of criteria for evaluating the UC program from the experience of developed countries. The final paper discusses their connection to theory and explores the views of health providers about which criteria to include, as well as the relationship between intermediate and core criteria, particularly with regard to being strategic in selecting performance problems for priority attention. / The complete series of research papers should prove to be a valuable reference resource and hopefully a guiding compass in assisting Thailand in the continuing implementation and reform of the Universal Health Care Coverage plan. / Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2007.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/267101 |
| Creators | Chantanavanich, Ungoon. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | copyright under review |
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