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Thais are alert medically, but poorly covered by health insurance.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Oct. 1--People in Thailand are among the most proactive in the region in taking precautionary medical checkups and screening for cancer, but they are the least financially protected against critical illness, according to a survey by American International Assurance (AIA).

The survey shows that 53 percent of Thais have annual checkups. However, only 10 percent are actually insured against critical illness compared with 56 percent in Singapore, 41 percent in Hong Kong and 35 percent in Malaysia.

The AIA Life Matters survey, conducted by the research firm TNS, involved telephone interviews with a random sample of 500 people each in Hong Kong, Malaysia, ...

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