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This research explores institutional arrangements that govern health literacy promotion policies in Thailand since 2014. This study sets the main questions as what are the main institutional arrangements that governed health literacy promotion policies in Thailand since 2014 and can these arrangements be viewed as collaborative health governance? This paper argues that the military coup in 2014 transformed institutional-governing arrangements on health system management and health promotion greatly as many legal-political institutions and various social-political agencies were involved and brought together to promote health and health literacy. A so-called principle of 'collaborative governance' has been employed and implemented to promote health in Thailand recently, however, this study argues that the institutional constraints under authoritarian regime offer a 'fictitious-collaborative health governance' instead. Furthermore, deliberative processes on health literacy promotion regulated by many legal - institutional constraints had characteristics of 'pseudo-deliberation'. This work is qualitative research, and it analyzes and explains research results by looking through theoretical concepts of institutionalism and collaborative governance. This study argues that to reach the goal of health literate community and society, Thai health agencies and authorities should re-approach health and health literacy promotion from the bottom-up perspective. Also, overcoming fictitious collaborative health promotion and pseudo-deliberation are necessary. To do that, we need a long-term project of building up a 'critical health regime' based on critical education and anti-authoritarianism as major principles. (*The paper was presented at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPCE) Conference "Post-pandemic health and long-term care: A new paradigm". September 2021)

This article aims to analyze the subalternate condition among migrant workers in Thailand under Thailand government's health policy during 2001 – 2016. The major objective of this research work is to critique and reveal the complication of socio – politics and Thai state's health policies which affected migrant worker's subalternity. The authors applied documentary research by adopting Gramscian approach which did not only focus on research methodology in scientific method such as statistical analysis or mathematical statistics, but the criticism approach was crucial. By using this approach, the critique of power and knowledge establishment in form of the order of things by using the critical policy perspectives had also been highlighted for analyzing the formation of Thai state's health policy and its effects to subalternity among migrant workers in Thailand. The researchers found out that subalternity among migrant workers in Thailand was not a new scenario. Rather, it had been continually reproduced through various Thai state ideological apparatuses and Thai state's health policy. On one hand, two major initiative thoughts of policy formation were reproduced to take and maintain Thai state's hegemony and share benefits among their alliances. On the other hand, the subalternity also stigmatized those migrant workers, who were subconsciously considered as "the otherness". The social exclusion had been highlighted as well as the condition of out of sight, out of mind which had also remained in Thai state's heedfulness. Article DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2018.43.360381 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.