ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Access to Healthcare and Social Protection among Migrant Workers in Thailand before and during COVID-19 Era: A Qualitative Study.
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- Access Barriers to Healthcare for Undocumented Migrants in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Qualitative Systematic Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Pooled it
- Determinants of Self-Medication in Immigrants: A Systematic Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying challenges and enabling factors in utilizing health care services by undocumented immigrant women: a scoping review of qualitative research.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Assessing healthcare status and challenges in border regions: insights from Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces, Thailand - a mixed-method approach.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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- COVID-19 pandemic, pregnancy care, perinatal outcomes in Eastern Myanmar and North-Western Thailand: a retrospective marginalised population cohort.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Access to healthcare services and factors associated with unmet needs among migrants in Phuket Province, Thailand, 2023: a cross-sectional mixed-method study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- COVID-19 among migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons: systematic review, meta-analysis and qualitative synthesis of the global empirical literature.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Research Trends of Studies on Psychosocial and Health-Related Behaviours of Foreign Domestic Workers in Asia Pacific: A Bibliometric Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Migrants and Healthcare during COVID-19, the Case of Kanchanaburi Province in Thailand.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Perceived Barriers of Accessing Healthcare among Migrant Workers in Thailand during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Qualitative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Health disparities among Burmese diaspora: an integrative review.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2023Review
- Migrant agricultural workers: a comparative analysis of both policy and COVID-19 response in Thailand, Italy, and Canada.SN social sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Thailand is a popular host nation for international migrant workers, particularly those from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar. Thailand has introduced approaches to protect their rights for health and social welfare, using various mechanisms over many years. However, the implementation of these policies is dynamic and has been influenced by national security, economic necessity, and public health concerns. The aim of this study was to explore how Thailand designs and implements health and social welfare policies for migrants in Thailand, both before and during COVID-19. A qualitative analysis was used alongside interviews with 18 key informants in various sectors in this field. Thematic coding was applied. Results show that there were seven key themes emerging from the analysis, including: (i) sustainability of the HICS; (ii) people dropping out from the Social Security Scheme (SSS); (iii) quality of health screening in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) migrants; (iv) health screening problems and state quarantine management in response to COVID-19; (v) managing the migration quota and dependency on migrant workers; (vi) influx of migrants in the backdrop of COVID-19; and (vii) poor living conditions of migrants and the impact of COVID-19. The majority of interviewees agreed that undocumented migrants is a critical concern that impedes access to migrants' health and social welfare. This situation was especially pronounced during the second wave of COVID-19 in Thailand, which took hold in migrant communities. In the short term, the poor living conditions of migrants urgently need to be addressed in order to contain and mitigate this crisis. In the long term, there needs to be an improved health system design that includes migrants, regardless of their immigration status. This requires intersectoral policy coherence, including the hastening of nationality verification to sustainably mitigate undocumented migrants.
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