In 2011, Thira Woratanarat (Woratanarat et al, 2014) proposed this concept to national-level health authorities as a new concept to tackle health inequity problems. Health professionals have invested their best efforts to promote population health with subtle outcomes for several decades in response to national expectation on their roles and responsibilities. However, population health problems have diverse characteristics and most of them are expressed in different forms and hard to solve with health related knowledge alone. For instance, chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, are among the most common diseases encountered by global population. Health professionals cannot effectively handle these things without any assistance from other professionals in the society. It would be more effective and easier if healthy foods are conveniently accessible anywhere, any time, and at affordable price. We would be more confident that healthier society can possibly be achieved if there are lesser unhealthy or abusive propaganda/ads as a result of better health literacy through better quality of learning environments as well as appropriate learning strategies that are suitable for each targeted population. Lower incidence of office syndrome and work-related health problems together with efficient productivity at every workplace not only in government but also in private sector can be noticed if working dimension has been taken into account for our population.
Interdisciplinary lifestyle-oriented networks to tackle with health inequity have been formed with kind support from Thai Health Promotion Foundation since 2011.