These are some of the highlights from a comprehensive assessment of the UCS’s
first 10 years. Conducted in 2011, the aims of this assessment were to review the
scheme’s performance and to shed light on what did and did not work, and why.
The assessment was also undertaken in order to offer policy recommendations
for the UCS in the future, and to provide lessons that may help other countries on
the path towards universal health coverage.
Study teams focused on five areas of inquiry: policy formulation, the contextual
environment, policy implementation, governance and impacts. The results of the
assessment are shown in this synthesis report and in the individual papers from
the study teams, which are available at www.hsri.or.th.