Editing Thailand (section)

=== Health ===
{{Main|Health in Thailand|Healthcare in Thailand|Hospitals in Thailand}}
[[File:Siriraj Hospital,Bangkok.jpg|thumb|[[Siriraj Hospital]] in Bangkok, the oldest and largest hospital in Thailand]]
Thailand ranks world's sixth, and Asia's first in the 2019 [[Global Health Security Index]] of global health security capabilities in 195 countries,<ref>{{Cite web |title=2019 Global Health Security Index |url=https://www.ghsindex.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803202057/https://www.ghsindex.org/ |archive-date=3 August 2020 |access-date=15 May 2020 |publisher=GHS INDEX}}</ref> making it the only [[developing country]] on the world's top ten. Thailand had 62 hospitals accredited by [[Joint Commission|Joint Commission International]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search for JCI-Accredited Organizations |url=https://www.jointcommissioninternational.org/en/about-jci/accredited-organizations/#f:_Facet_Country= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001181625/https://www.jointcommissioninternational.org/en/about-jci/accredited-organizations/#f:_Facet_Country= |archive-date=1 October 2020 |access-date=15 May 2020 |publisher=JCI}}</ref> In 2002, [[Bumrungrad International Hospital|Bumrungrad]] became the first hospital in Asia to meet the standard.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Finch |first=Steve |date=2014-01-07 |title=Thailand top destination for medical tourists |journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal |language=en |volume=186 |issue=1 |pages=E1–E2 |doi=10.1503/cmaj.109-4655 |pmc=3883860 |pmid=24246587}}</ref>

Health and medical care is overseen by the [[Ministry of Public Health (Thailand)|Ministry of Public Health]] (MOPH), with total national expenditures on health amounting to 4.3 per cent of GDP in 2009. [[Non-communicable disease]]s form the major burden of morbidity and mortality, while infectious diseases including malaria<ref>{{Cite journal |date=20 November 2023 |others=Design and layout by Claude Cardot, cover design by Lushomo |title=World malaria report 2023 |url=https://www.who.int/teams/global-malaria-programme/reports/world-malaria-report-2023 |journal=World Health Organization |pages=22–23, 85 |isbn=978-92-4-008617-3}}</ref> and tuberculosis,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mingchay |first1=Pichanon |last2=Paitoonpong |first2=Leilani |last3=Kawkitinarong |first3=Kamon |last4=Ohata |first4=Pirapon June |last5=Suwanpimolkul |first5=Gompol |date=2024-08-20 |title=Tuberculosis at a university hospital, Thailand: A surprising incidence of TB among a new generation of highly exposed health care workers who may be asymptomatic |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=17 |issue=8 |pages=e0273027 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0273027 |doi-access=free |pmc=9401166 |pmid=36001595}}</ref> as well as traffic accidents, are also important public health issues.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-06 |title=14,737 lives lost on Thai roads in 2022 |url=https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40023780 |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=nationthailand |language=en-US}}</ref>

In December 2018, the interim parliament voted to legalise the use of [[cannabis]] for medical reasons, making Thailand the first Southeast Asian country to allow the use of [[medical cannabis]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Olam |first1=Kocha |last2=Goldschmidt |first2=Debra |date=25 December 2018 |title=Thailand approves medical marijuana |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/25/health/thailand-medical-marijuana-bn/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226030858/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/25/health/thailand-medical-marijuana-bn/index.html |archive-date=26 December 2018 |access-date=26 December 2018 |publisher=CNN}}</ref>