Thai Health Promotion Foundation: Innovative Enabler for Health Promotion

Abstract

Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), founded in 2001, is the first organization of its kind in Asia and serves as an innovative enabler to enhance health promotion and a healthy society and environment for all people in Thailand. This paper describes ThaiHealth’s structure, accomplishments and lessons learned to help inform other settings in their national health promotion efforts. Established under the Health Promotion Act, ThaiHealth’s budget is obtained from surcharge excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol, a financial mechanism that facilitates a sustainable funding source for ThaiHealth to continuously support health