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Thailand National Health and Examination Survey 2013-2015

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Original or alternative title 
การสำรวจสุขภาพประชาชนไทย ครั้งที่ 5 พ.ศ. 2557
Provider 
Health Systems Research Institute (Thailand)
Tabulations only
Geography 
Thailand (THA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
10/2013 - 02/2015
Data type
Survey:
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The National Health Examination Survey 2014 is the fifth survey in the series, with collection development taking place between 2013 and 2015. The survey monitors the health status of working-age and elderly people in Thailand, covering topics such as smoking and alcohol consumption, physical activity, diet, basic disease conditions, and gathers body proportion measurements, blood pressure, and blood sugar measurements. A module on children's health is also included in this 2014 survey, assessing children age 1 and older on topics such as breastfeeding, diet, meal preparation and skipping, secondhand smoke, fighting, use of helmets, and sleep. Parents were also questioned about their children's life skills and social, emotional, psychological, and ethical development.

Keywords 
Alcohol use, Anemia, Asthma, Blood pressure, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, COPD, Child development, Child labor, Children, Cholesterol, Clinical breast exams, Contraceptives, Crime, Diabetes, Diet, Education, Employment, Falls, Fertility, Firearms, Fruits, Gout, Health behaviors, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Hypertension, Income, Injuries, Intentional injuries, Interpersonal violence, Iodine deficiency, Lifestyle risk factors, Literacy, Marital status, Mass media, Mental health symptoms, Miscarriage, Musculoskeletal diseases, Nutrition, Obesity, Otitis media, Pap smears, Parents, Physical activity, Population characteristics, Road traffic injuries, School conditions, Secondhand smoke, Sleep, Socioeconomic risk factors, Thalassemias, Tobacco smoking, Urinary diseases, Urolithiasis, Vegetables, Vision loss, Weight
GHDx Entry last modified on: May 2, 2025