standards should have improved if reduced out-of-pocket health-care
expenditure led households to spend more on other goods. The impact could
be significant because private consumption expenditure accounts for more than
50% of Thailand’s GDP. Moreover, increased income could have led to a change
in demand pattern, inducing a shift in production patterns and could also have
further affected market prices of goods and services. Therefore, this study used a
comprehensive approach to capture the effects of the UCS on the Thai economy.
Objectives
The objective of this part of the assessment was to evaluate changes in various
macroeconomic variables of the Thai economy during the implementation of the
UCS. The evaluation involved examining changes in: (1) consumption patterns of
private households; (2) savings patterns of private households; (3) government
consumption; and (4) production activities and import demand.
Conceptual framework
The study covered three aspects of the consequences of the UCS, including both
macroeconomic impacts on the economy and microeconomic effects on Thai
individuals: (1) changes in macroeconomic variables (including private consumption,
private savings, public expenditure, imports and production patterns); (2) individual’s
financial risk protection (poverty incidence reduced by the UCS); and (3) effects
on the labour market through changes in labour productivity. The diagram below
depicts the overall conceptual framework of the analysis.
o ช่องที่ 3 บรรทัดที่ 1 คำว่า perfor- ย้ายไปไว้บรรทัดที่ 2 => performance
หน้า 113: ตาราง Table A2;
o Column Data sources แถวที่ 4 บรรทัดที่ 1 inpa- ย้ายไปไว้บรรทัดที่ 2 =>
inpatient และย้ายคำว่า ‘datasets’ ไปไว้บรรทัดที่ 3
o Column Numerator แถวที่ 3 บรรทัดที่ 1 satis- ย้ายไปไว้บรรทั