Abstract
Objective/Methods: Now non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the most important healthy issues. The aim of this report was to review 1) the status of investment for NCDs in Thailand, 2) the trend of practice and research in prevention of NCDs, and 3) the research platform of NCDs in the 21th IUHPE world conference, and to utilize as reference data on preventing NCDs in Japan.
Results: 1) Thailand health promotion foundation invests about 100 million dollars by surcharge tax of tobacco & alcohol excise taxes to health promotion every year. There are over half of projects that related NCDs preventing, such as smoking and alcohol control, physical activities, health risk factor control, and community activity. 2) It is important to promote early intervention in health literacy at individual and organization, and to establish the appropriate measurement for health literacy. 3) The research platform of NCDs may be a bridge among multi-facilities, multi-sectorial partnership, policy maker, health workers, and researchers.
Conclusion: For a more effective and efficient health promotion program on overcoming NCDs, we should observe continuous investment for health, accumulation the evidence of social determination and health behavior theory, and important role of research platform of NCDs.
