Objectives: After Thailand achieved Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in 2002, the extent of financial risk protection has not been assessed in the long term, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to revisit the impact of UHC on out-of-pocket expenses (OOPE) for health and to descriptively explore the impact of COVID-19 on OOPE.
Methods: This study was a secondary data analysis and used data from the Socio-Economic Survey from 1994 to 2021 in Thailand. The effect of UHC on the percentage of OOPE in total health expenditures (THE) from 1994 to 2019 was investigated with an interrupted time-series analysis. Descriptive analyses of OOPE in absolute value during the COVID-19 were conducted.
Results: The percentage of OOPE in THE significantly decreased both before (β -2.02%; 95% CI: -2.70% to - 1.33%) and during (β 1.41%; 95% CI: 0.70% to 2.11%) the UHC period. During the pandemic, total household OOPE for medical equipment was found to have rapidly increased from 643 million THB in 2019 to 9.4 billion THB in 2020.
Conclusions: The trend of providing financial risk protection (measured by OOPE/THE) in Thailand continues until 2019. Providing medical equipment in sufficient and equally accessible manners should be prioritized during the future pandemic.
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