Good Health and Well-Being

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

Mahidol University specializes in the health sciences, with various medical research programs and treatment innovations, and provides knowledge about health to the Thai people. Each year, the University produces many medical graduates, such as doctors, nurses, and paramedical staff. Mahidol University operates 8 hospitals providing healthcare services for all diseases. Between 2020 – 2021, the hospitals treated 11,766,282 outpatients, 284,931 inpatients, and 1,094,908 dental patients. Mahidol also supported medical treatment fees of 4,213,371,169.45 baht for poor patients, to reduce inequality and increase access to medical care. Mahidol University has a variety of specialized disease centers, such as a Stroke Center, Kidney Center, and Cancer Center. The University has driven many projects to promote a healthy lifestyle and organized educational events and conferences about various diseases, such as the activities included in World AIDS Day, World Cancer Day, and World Obesity Day with the correct exercise programs and methods. Furthermore, Mahidol University has established Mahidol University’s Counseling Center, “MU Friends”, to provide mental-health counseling and other supports to students and the public. The Adolescent Clinic counsels young people about the teenage problems that arise as they enter adolescence, such as drug addiction and sex-related matters. The University also provides sports facilities and fitness centers for students and staff. Mahidol University is a smoke-free university that participates in a campaign to educate people about the negative impacts of smoking and persuade people to stop smoking for better health. Mahidol University is a leader and role model in the ASEAN University Network -Health Promotion Network (AUN-HPN), for the purpose of health promotion in the ASEAN region, sharing knowledge, skills and resources to develop innovative solutions to common health challenges in the region.

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    23 Jun. 2565
    The Collaboration Project between Mahidol University and Nakhon Pathom Province For Helping Coronavirus-Infected Patients In 2019
    From the situation of the epidemic of Coronavirus or COVID-19 that has massively spread in Thailand among schools, workplaces, and communities, it leads to the problem that hospitals and medical sites become unable to provide comprehensive care, which is why home or community quarantine is required to prevent the spread of the virus. The Faculty of Nursing recognizes the importance of managing and cooperating with relevant agencies in arranging public spaces in the community, monitoring patients’ symptoms, giving advice, and referring patients to receive appropriate treatment.
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    23 Jun. 2565
    Training Program of Nursing Specialty in Breastfeeding 2021
    The Faculty of Nursing has conducted the Training Program of Nursing Specialty in Breastfeeding since 2018. The participants included registered nurses in the breastfeeding unit from various hospitals and nursing schools in Thailand.
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    23 Jun. 2565
    Early Childhood Health System Development Project in Central and Western Regions
    The Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University was responsible for the Early Childhood Health System Development Project in the Central and Western Regions and cooperated with the Thai Health Promotion Foundation in 2021–2022. The objectives were to enhance the growth and development of children from newborn to 6 years old by developing a health system and management of child development center at the district level and developing the capacity of a network of child development centers.
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    9 Jun. 2565
    Rabies Free Zone Project
    Rabies is a fatal zoonosis caused by a virus that remains an important public health issue in Thailand. Nowadays, rabies infections are still reported in both humans and animals. It causes losses in many aspects, such as lives, resources and the economy. For this reason, it is necessary to eradicate this disease urgently. To be a part of the eradication of rabies, Mahidol University, Nakhon Sawan Campus, in collaboration with the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Mahidol University and Nakhon Sawan Provincial Livestock Office established a Rabies Free Zone Project which consists of various activities including educating about rabies prevention, vaccination for pets and neutering for stray dogs and cats in the area of Khao Thong Subdistrict, Phayuha Khiri District, Nakhon Sawan Province, as well as other nearby areas. This project has been caried out continuously since 2014.
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    2 Mar. 2565
    Interfaith Buddy for Peace: The Weavers of Peace and Harmony in Thai Society
    Interfaith Buddy for Peace: The Weavers of Peace and Harmony in Thai Society project applies dialogues as the start to bring trust and harmony and to ultimately bring peace to the three southern border provinces of Thailand where there are still deep-rooted conflicts in with different thoughts, beliefs, ideology, and culture. This is one of the projects receiving Mahidol University’s social guiding policy driving fund to promote research which leads to social guiding by applying healthcare to build trust and lead to concrete relationship weaving. Lessons learned were extracted and offered as peace and harmony policies in Thai society by applying 40 sub-seminar field tools in six southern border provinces. There were 170 people in attendance. The researcher used interview techniques and created sub-discussions in the areas to build understanding, to weave relationships and trust. Discussions were used to add trust and initiate a cross-religion relationship. Public stages were used to create more empathy, more understanding, and bonding across the communities, expanding network for people to take care of one another, as well as design the communities to exchange their experiences through their suffering and loss before becoming friends who support each other in aspects, including healthcare, especially during COVID-19 pandemic. This could bring mobilization opportunities for friends of different religions to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    10 Mar. 2565
    Academic training on the good quality of life that thalassemia patients can have, and genetic counseling for pregnant women and husbands who are at risk of having children with thalassemia
    Thalassemia is the most common hereditary chronic anemia disease found in the world, including Thailand. About 5.2% of the world’’s population are carriers of thalassemia and hemoglobin disorders.
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    10 Mar. 2565
    Mahidol’’’’s Organic Rice Farmers’ networking activities
    Organic rice farmers, customers, and related communities’ network to increase guideline standards. Introduction: The research and Academic Outreach Center of Bueng Borapeth, Nakhonsawan sees the problem of the lack of confidence of customers of organic rice and farmers that lack standards for product certifications.
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    23 Jun. 2565
    The National Manpower Skills Development Project (Upskill/ Reskill/ Newskill) for having a job and preparing for the future of work post-pandemic of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), Diploma in the 21st Century Child Care Training Project
    The nation has gone through a coronavirus pandemic, resulting in increased employment, an expansion of the labor market for services, and increased demand for caregivers. As a consequence, there is a high demand for childcare workers among families today.
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    25 Aug. 2565
    Early Childhood Demonstration Project
    Our early childhood development centre focuses on promoting experiences and learning to prepare and promote the potential of early childhood in physical, emotional, social, mental and cognitive processes.
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    26 Aug. 2565
    The outreach and development assistance project to support poor early childhood groups in early childhood development centres and early childhood who are out of the education system in Bangkok
    Developing and strengthening education equality mechanisms with agencies’’ partners in caring for and helping early childhood groups in Bangkok and developing information systems for planning to reduce inequality in education and follow up to support early childhood groups.
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    22 Jun. 2565
    Child and Adolescent Clinic Online Services
    Build knowledge and academic service, and provides developmental promotion services for children with problems from birth to adolescence so that children and youths can be taken care of and corrected promptly and accurately. It will reduce various problems, resulting in children becoming quality citizens of the country.
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    22 Jun. 2565
    The Project of Thai Youth Fight Against COVID-19, the Year 2020 and 2021: Raising awareness and participation of children and youth to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
    The National Institute for Child and Family Development at Mahidol University and the Child Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center (CSIP) at the Faculty of Medicine at Ramathibodi Hospital organized the activities that would allow children, youth, and teenagers to learn about COVID-19 and apply what they learned when they cared for the elderly in their homes.
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