Traditional Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand

Analysis of locational characteristics and accessibility of 230 Thai and Chinese traditional-medicine clinics in Bangkok, Thailand, focuses on relationships of clinics to city zones, subpopulations, and biomedical facilities. Patient distributions of eight traditional-medicine practitioners are studied in terms of their specialty, areal extent, and possible distance decay. Practitioners tend to locate in inner-city zones and in areas with a high percentage of commercial or built-up land. Traditional medicine is declining in Bangkok in the face of competition from biomedicine.