เศรษฐศาสตร์การเมืองว่าด้วยความเหลื่อมล้ำทางสุขภาพ: กรณีศึกษานโยบายการนำเข้าวัคซีนทางเลือกของรัฐบาล และโอกาสในการเข้าถึงของประชาชน

Abstract

In present the world is facing the coronavirus 2019 outbreak. Coronavirus pandemic's is has been impacting in Thailand; people got severity of this outbreak. Public health system is processing under the operation of the government. Government comes to protect the impact on public health with a plan to reduce the severity of the epidemic by using Coronavirus 2019 Vaccines. The study of “Political Economy of Health Inequality: A Case Study of Government’s Alternative Vaccines Policy and People Accessibility” has two objectives; (1) to analyze the opportunity of barrier to access Alternative Vaccines are impacted from Government Policy under Public health emergency (2) to analyze the Government manages; vaccines are access and allocation on Political Economy criticizes view; The concept of Inequality view and Principle of equality, including relevant Thai laws. By using survey research bring analyze method together with secondary data. The results showed Alternatives Vaccines barrier accessibility that 1) Difference between Personal Factors of the income per month and cost burden in housing have an affect on choosing alternative vaccines. 2) Giving some knowledge about vaccines from Government. 3) the Confidence of National Health Security insurance affects to opportunity to access health services, including to amelioration and buying COVID-19 insurance. Moreover, A barrier from Laws cause trading and import high efficacy vaccines by state to state, that were barriers for people’s accessibility opportunity, because of delayed decision about import Alternative Vaccines affect a local government face to obtain to Alternative Vaccines access delayed. From the above factor the government should makes clearly decided by policy measure aim to increasing equal opportunities about choosing vaccines and accesses health services arm for Non-Government Organization coordinate, including to modify laws; to got specific section or directly laws when the country face to pandemic to quickly manage health urgency.