Policy formulation during the Covid-19 epedemic in Thai society and the application of a Rational Selection Model

Abstract

The objectives of this paper on policy making during the COVID-19 epidemic in Thai society and the application of a rational selection model. are as follows: 1) to study the context of policy formulation during the COVID-19 epidemic in Thai society 2) to study the form and process of policy formulation during the COVID-19 epidemic in Thai society. The research results found that public health context during the epidemic of COVID-19 in Thai society, the first wave and the second wave, there are the third wave, the fifth wave and the sixth wave. There is less public health uncertainty than the fourth wave. This is a time of greatest public health uncertainty. In terms of the economic context during the first wave of COVID-19 in Thai society, the first wave, the second wave, the fourth wave, the fifth wave, and the sixth wave, there was less economic uncertainty than the third wave. For the political context during the epidemic of COVID-19 in Thai society, the first wave, the second wave, the third wave, and the sixth wave. There is less political uncertainty than the fourth wave. and the fifth wave which was a time of the highest political uncertainty.

Policy formulation in public health, economy and politics during the epidemic of COVID-19 in Thai society is a centralized power (centralization) and ended the centralization of power during the sixth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in Thai society. As for the process of policy formulation during the COVID-19 epidemic in Thai society, there are 3 steps: 1) setting scientific criteria and technical advice 2) making decisions and 3) communication