[Thailand: resurgence of infectious diseases and epidemiologic transition]

Despite progress in various facts (sanitation, education, access to health care...) that allowed a significant reduction in infectious and parasitic diseases, they persist in some poor geographical areas and populations most in need, especially in young children. An epidemiological transition (increased incidence of cancers, cardiovascular attacks...) clearly tends to replace the old public health problems, rather in urban areas and among the most advantaged social classes. Diseases (re)emerging are also serious concerns for the future: return of resistant malaria, outbreaks of severe clinic forms of dengue, explosion of VHI/TB resistant....