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.
Material and Method: 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 out patient 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.
Conclusion: 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.

Keywords: Infant morbidity, Infant mortality, Family centered care