Advanced health biotechnologies in Thailand: redefining policy directions. Román Pérez Velasco1*, Usa Chaikledkaew2,3, Chaw Yin Myint2 , Roongnapa Khampang2 , Sripen Tantivess2 and Yot Teerawattananon2* Abstract Background: Thailand faces a significant burden in terms of treating and managi

Hialy Gutierrez, MPH,1,2 Ashwini Shewade, MS, MSc,1 Minghan Dai, MPH,1 Pedro Mendoza-Arana, MD, MSc,3 Octavio Go´mez-Dante´s, MD, MPH,4 Nishant Jain, PhD,5 Irma Khonelidze, MPA,6 Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, MD, MSc,7 Karima Saleh, PhD,8 Yot Teerawattananon, MD, PhD,9 Sania Nishtar, SI, PhD,10 and John Hor

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Thailand’s health system is facing challenges from resource constraints including limited budgets, shortages of health professionals, and restricted access to essential medical equipment. At the same time, the system continues to provide low-value care (LVC), which not only fails to deliver meaningf

Economic evidence is increasingly being used for informing health policies. However, the underlining principles of health economic analyses are not always fully understood by non-health economists, and inappropriate types of analyses, as well as inconsistent methodologies, may be being used for info

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A team of researchers at Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India have been conducting cost-of-illness studies on childhood diarrhoea (rotavirus) and enteric fever (typhoid). And HITAP, through the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) network, have been providing technical suppo

1. BackgroundSince 2011 the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and the National Health Security Office (NHSO) has collaborated in health promotion and disease prevention program, which aims to provide a high quality of health promotion and disease prevention services for all Thai people. Although the NHSO has indicators for health promotion and disea

Sarin KC is Head of the Environmental Economics Unit at HITAP, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. Previously, he worked as a research analyst at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Ministry of Health and Population in Nepal.As a health economist, he has helped institutionalise Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in c

Abstract Return on investment (ROI) analysis is increasingly being used for evaluating the value for money of public health interventions. Given its potential role for informing health policies, it is important that there is a more comprehensive understanding of ROI analysis within the global