New Public Health Study Findings Have Been Reported by Researchers at Ministry of Public Health (Effect of the Promulgation of the New Migrant’s Employment Law on Migrant Insurance Coverage in Thailand: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, …): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2022 APR 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- A new study on public health is now available. According to news reporting originating from Nonthaburi, Thailand, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study explores the effect of the recently enacted Foreigners’ Working Management Emergency Decree, 2017 on migrant insurance coverage between January 2016 and December 2018.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Ministry of Public Health: “We employed an interrupted time series (ITS) model to estimate the level and trend changes of the number of migrants enrolled in Social Health Insurance (SHI) for formal workers and the Health Insurance Card Scheme (HICS) for other migrants. Before the Decree’s implementation, SHI covered roughly a third of the total migrants holding work permits, while HICS covered over half of migrants in the country. We found that the new employment law contributed to a rise in the volume of SHI members and a decline in the HICS members in the long run, which might be partly due to a switch from the HICS members in the formal sector to the SHI, as originally intended by the law. In addition to the law effect, some coincided political force from international trade partners and supranational organizations might also contribute to the progress in protecting the rights of migrant workers.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The long-term monitoring of migrant insurance coverage and a mapping against the changes in migrant-related laws and contexts are recommended.”

For more information on this research see: Effect of the Promulgation of the New Migrant’s Employment Law on Migrant Insurance Coverage in Thailand: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, 2016-2018. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022,19(4384):4384. (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph). The publisher for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074384.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Woranan Witthayapipopsakul, International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand. Additional authors for this research include Hathairat Kosiyaporn, Sonvanee Uansri, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat.

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