Hypertension care in Thailand: best practices and challenges, 2019

Overview

This report highlights the burden of cardiovascular disease and describes how the Royal Government of Thailand provides hypertension care within its public health system. It describes facilities for the screening, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of hypertension and identifies best practices that have led to a high coverage of hypertension care. Current programmatic challenges and priority actions for further improving the coverage and quality of hypertension care are also discussed.