International Trade and Health in Thailand: A Scoping Review

Kamonwan Kiewnin, Titaree Boontantrapiwat, Jeerapa Sosom, Mintar Hongtumrong, Anon Khunakorncharatphong, Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra and Cha-aim Pachanee
Additional contact information
Kamonwan Kiewnin: International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Titaree Boontantrapiwat: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand
Jeerapa Sosom: International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Mintar Hongtumrong: International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Anon Khunakorncharatphong: International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra: Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand
Cha-aim Pachanee: International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 21, 1-12

Abstract: International trade has become more complicated and is now related to more aspects of health and the health system. As Thailand is active in international trade and health, understanding what knowledge exists and determining the knowledge gap is essential for generating the necessary evidence in order to promote better understanding and allow evidence-based policy decisions to be made. This study reviewed the existence of knowledge on international trade and health issues in a scoping review, focusing on Thailand during the period 1991–2020. In total, 156 studies from seven databases and manual searching were included. Of these, 46% were related to trade in health services and 39% were linked to intellectual property, particularly access to medicines. This review found only a very small amount of research on other issues and did not identify any study on trade policies or products related to health and international trade and the environment. We therefore recommend that further studies should be carried out to provide more critical evidence—in particular, more research focusing on the impacts of trade on health-related goods and the analysis of the positive and negative impacts of international trade on industry is needed. Furthermore, better knowledge management through the publication of research findings and making them searchable on international databases will increase the visibility of international trade, increase our knowledge of health issues, and provide supporting evidence.

Keywords: international trade; health; Thailand; policy; impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11692/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11692/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:21:p:11692-:d:673979

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().