The standard health services consist of
hospitals in Bangkok, public hospitals and
health centers. The negative value indicated that
there was more equity using at the standard
health service favoring the poor elderly in 2001
and 2004 of KDSS. The value of concentration
index is -0.09 and -0.07 respectively. For the
standard health services, the utilization of
the poor elderly is more than the rich elderly
as pro-poor as presented in figure 1 due to the
30-Baht card. The thirty bath scheme
supported to reduce obstructions to healthcare
service utilization such as health expenses.
The 30-Baht cards were also convenient to
use.