2025-06-03-世界卫生组织-Environmental_Health_Thailand_2025_country_profile_4页_266kb

Health and Environment Scorecard Summary: Thailand

Overall Performance

• Summary score: 58/100, exposure score: 50/100, health score: 63/100, policy score: 62/100; simple averages out of 100, indicating moderate overall performance with areas needing improvement.

Key Strengths and Areas

• Health Score: 63/100; moderate, reflecting challenges in air pollution-related diseases and healthcare facility resilience, but shows commitments in parts like lead regulation.
• Policy Score: 62/100; demonstrates initiatives, such as submission of a biodiversity strategy post-COP15 for terrestrial and marine protection, and climate commitments including a National Health and Climate Change Adaptation Plan (HNAP), but data in some areas is insufficient.
• Air Pollution: Air quality guidelines for PM2.5 not met (annual mean 25 μg/m3 vs. WHO guideline of 5 μg/m3); existence of legal limit for lead paint, but high deaths from stroke and ischaemic heart disease.
• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: High coverage in urban areas for safe drinking water and sanitation (75-94%); moderate death rates from diarrhoea, with lower rural access.
• Chemicals and Toxins: Compliance with lead paint limits and party to Minamata Convention on Mercury; no capacity for radiation emergency response and no radon regulations for dwellings.
• Occupational Health: Insufficient data for comprehensive assessment; some policies exist but gaps in implementation and coverage.
• Climate Change: Submitted biodiversity strategy targeting 30% protected area by 2030; has climate adaptation plans, but insufficient data for emissions scenario analysis.

Data and Methodology Notes

• Scores based on WHO, UN, and other sources; some data not available or consultative.
• The scorecard measures progress without intended ranking, focusing on key health and environmental indicators.