On June 20, 2013, three professional associations namely the Association of Occupational and Environmental Diseases, the Occupational Health Nursing Association of Thailand and the Occupational Health and Safety at Work Association issued a statement to call for a ban on asbestos in all products. In...
A committee studying the health impacts of asbestos will meet on June 20 to discuss a ban on the use and import of asbestos in accordance with a cabinet resolution in 2011 which is in line with the National Health Assembly’s resolution. A source in the...
Globalization leads to severe conflicts especially on natural resources. We have seen many conflicts between villagers and capitalists in many areas. The project of Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production Co Ltd to build a deep-sea port in the Ao Tha Sala bay in Nakhon Si...
Health organizations join forces to proactively promote community well-being. They intend to integrate their workforces, mechanisms and resources to develop provincial learning centers with a high hope to improve the quality of life. Communities are recommended to function as centers for health promotion and village-based...
The Statute on the National Health System B.E. 2552 (2009) results from the National Health Act B.E. 2550 (2007). It was promulgated in December 2009 and is an important legal tool to ensure the well-being of Thai people regardless of classes, races, religions and financial...
On March 1, 2013, Open Research Center for Minamata Studies of Kumamoto Gakuen University of Japan together with the Health Impact Assessment Co-ordinating Unit of the National Health Commission Office, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies of Chulalongkorn University, Environmental Litigation and Advocacy for the...
Dr Thaksaphon Thamarangsi, director of the Center for Alcohol Studies (CAS), said the Center for Alcohol Studies (CAS) under the International Health Policy Program of the Thai Ministry of Public Health, has been funded by the Thai Health Promotion Foundation to organize the 7th National Academic...
Ruj Komolbut of the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication at Thammasat University asks if anyone has ever been in the following situations. The expressway toll rises from 55 to 85 baht and state enterprises raise energy fees but we are unable to do anything or...
This community chooses to fight against transnational petroleum industry and coal-fired power plants with wisdom and use community health impact assessment as its tool. In a meeting of partners for the empowerment of Tha Sala community, Prof Dr Prawase Wasi, chairman of the National Reform Assembly...
The term “Health Statute” was quite new to me until I participated in the conference titled “Health in All Policies, Local and Community Level” during the 5th National Health Assembly Forum hosted by the National Health Assembly Organizing Committee from December 18-20, 2012.Mr. Suriya Aramreung, Village Headman Assistant from Khlong...