Thailand’s Military Junta Enjoys Power and Postpones Elections
Doug Bandow
BANGKOK, THAILAND—Thailand’s capital has lost none of its frenetic motion but it is a bit quieter of late, with last year’s demonstrators dispersed by the military.
However, the junta, which took power in May, is not leaving. Instead it recently announced that it was putting off any vote.
Thailand’s political crisis has been years in the making. Once an absolute monarchy, the country’s democracy has been oft interrupted by military rule. A new constitution was instituted in 1997, but the business-military-court alliance hadn’t prepared for telecommunications executive Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 29, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Time to Close Thailand’s Camps for Burmese Refugees?
Doug Bandow
MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, THAILAND—Trees give way to primitive wooden homes in the rolling hills approaching Mae La refugee camp on Thailand’s border with Burma. The largest camp in Thailand, Mae La, holds 50,000 refugees.
Three years ago Burma’s ruling generals yielded authority to a nominally civilian leadership and initiated a series of ceasefires with various ethnic groups. The resulting peace is real but imperfect.
Today there are as many as 150,000 refugees in ten Thai camps. Overcrowded Mae La was established three decades ago when many assumed that their stay would be sho...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 16, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Varicella – Thailand vs. United States
An increasing incidence of varicella in Thailand is almost the mirror image of American data (see graph [1]).
In fact, rates in the United States had already been decreasing for several years before the introduction of routine vaccination. Seroprevalence studies in the two populations are not dissimilar, and the striking difference in disease rates are difficult to explain. The following data are extracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series. [2-4] (Primary references are available on request.)
Varicella – seroprevalence surveys:
United States
93.6% for persons ages 6 to 19 years,...
Source: GIDEON blog - February 11, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Thailand united states Varicella Source Type: blogs
The Best Governance for Medicines ... is in Thailand
Discussion of deception, conflicts of interest, crime and corruption affecting large health care organizations is muted and anechoic. I know of precisely one course on health care corruption in any US medical, public health, or health administration school (look here, and its focus is on developing countries.)Time to head to Bangkok?.... But if we all cannot... In the US, we will not have a chance of meaningfully improving our health care system until we start listening to unbiased health care professionals and academics (in particular, who have not been paid off by vested interests), civil society ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: WHO Good Governance for Medicines Programme National Health Assembly pharmaceuticals Thailand Source Type: blogs
The Best Governance for Medicine ... is in Thailand
Discussion of deception, conflicts of interest, crime and corruption affecting large health care organizations is muted and anechoic. I know of precisely one course on health care corruption in any US medical, public health, or health administration school (look here, and its focus is on developing countries.)Time to head to Bangkok?.... But if we all cannot... In the US, we will not have a chance of meaningfully improving our health care system until we start listening to unbiased health care professionals and academics (in particular, who have not been paid off by vested interests), civil society ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: WHO Good Governance for Medicines Programme National Health Assembly pharmaceuticals Thailand Source Type: blogs
Blurry in Bangkok Part II: The Bumrungrad Story
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In my last article, I told you about an experience my colleagues and I encountered on a business trip in Thailand. My friend needed new contacts, and didn’t have a chance to get them before he left DC. Since we were meeting in Bumrungrad, one of the leading medical tourism hospitals in the world, he decided to put them to the test, [blinking profusely the whole time, I might add.] With minutes, he was registered, seen by a nurse, seen by a doctor, tested and given a prescription for new lenses. M-i-n-u-t-e-s.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - February 18, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: David Lareau Tags: Chang Foo e-s Industry News Thailand Network Infrastructure Quality and Safety Source Type: blogs
Blurry-Eyed in Bangkok: A One-Act Play
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On a recent trip to Thailand, two colleagues and I saw efficient hospital workflow in action. Just for kicks, let me present the following one-act play.
Act 1, Scene 1: A group of jet-lagged Americans sitting in a conference room at Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok. One of them begins to make faces at his colleagues.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - January 28, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: David Lareau Tags: Bangkok Bumrungrad Hospital Thailand Source Type: blogs
