WHO country cooperation strategy 2008-2011: Thailand

Thailand is a developing country that has registered impressive successes in both

economic and social development, though all regions of the country have not registered

the same degree of advancement. The country also has a long and successful history of

health development. The Ninth Five-Year National Health Development Plan, 2001-

2006, has just been completed, and the Tenth Plan is in the final stages of completion.

The basic principles of these plans are based on a people-centered approach and

philosophy of “sufficiency economy.” The Thailand Human Development Index has

improved, inexorably aided by major contributions from the robust health indicators.

Almost all MDGs relating to maternal and child mortality have been achieved.