title: Thai infant health situation: essential medical information for family centered care.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The family-centered care requires reliable information on morbidity, mortality and related health problems to educate the responsible families.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore diseases and deaths of infants aged 29 days-12 months under the 2010 Universal Health Insurance in Thailand.
  
  
  METHODS
  As per Sutra et al in 'Health situation analysis of Thai population 2010. The data included in the analysis were numbers and percents of primary diagnosis of each visit in the outpatient department (OPD), admitted cases and infant death. Other health related issues were also retrieved from the existing sources of health information at country level.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The infants aged 29 days-12 month had 9,721, 266 OPD visits including factors influencing health (69.6%), respiratory infections (16.3%), Intestinal infection (2.4%) and other diseases (11.7%). The admitted cases commonly had respiratory infections (47.5%), intestinal infections (23.4%), other infections (4.8%) and congenital malformation (2.8%). The three most common causes of hospital deaths were perinatal conditions (25.2%), congenital malformation (21.4%) and respiratory infection (18.5%). There were also neonatal problems of low birth weight and iodine deficiency.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The infectious diseases and perinatal health problems were the main issues for family education in the family centered care to reduce the burden of diseases and infant death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. kuschu@kku.ac.th
authors.forename: Kusuma
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chusilp
authors.forename: Pensri
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kosuwon
authors.forename: Chanchai
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Panthongwiriyakul
authors.forename: Kaewjai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thepsuthammarat
authors.forename: Supakorn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wangsai
authors.forename: Sumitr
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sutra
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011203:Poverty; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology