In Thailand, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is 17.5% of the population (Ingsathit et al., 2010). According to Thailand’s National Health Security Office (2021), in each year, this public health agency spends approximately 10,000 million Baht in renal dialysis and 1,000 million Baht for the CKD treatment and other related expenses.

Kidney failure (KF)[1] is a life-threatening disease that requires either kidney transplantation or dialysis for survival (1, 2). As of 2019, it was estimated that globally, 1.4 million deaths occurred on account of chronic kidney disease (CKD) (3). The cost of treatment for KF is also high, leading to catastrophic household expenditure to househo

Diseases are caused by a range of risk factors, some of which are modifiable risk factors. Understanding the health cost burden associated with each modifiable risk factor can provide valuable insights for the health system, such as helping prioritize public health interventions that target the most harmful risk factors or designing programs that c

The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) was requested by the World Health Organization (WHO), on behalf of the Ministry of Health & Sports (MoHS), to provide technical assistance for completing its closure reports. This study will focus on conducting an evaluation

This report provides a summary of the fourth visit to Myanmar as part of this study. In preparation for data collection, a training was organized by the MoHS for supervisors and enumerators. HITAP delivered sessions on a sampling of villages, wards, and households, the manual for supervisors a

The Indonesian HTA Committee (InaHTAC) was formally renewed and continues its work as a facilitator of national HTA studies as of 2016. Under their oversight and technical support provided by iDSI, three HTA economic evaluation studies were completed from 2014-2016: the economic evaluation of

A series of 4 workshops are planned to be held over the course of the next 12 months in order to build capacity in health technology assessment (HTA) for a group of researchers from the HTAIn Technical Partners and resource hubs. These workshops will be delivered by the HTAIn, the iDSI, and PGIMER C

The aim of the meeting was to feedback the findings from the Total Systems Effectiveness (TSE) Thailand pilot project back to stakeholders and discuss the usefulness and applicability of TSE for the Thai setting. For full report please click here

The objective of the meeting is to introduce stakeholders involved in vaccine decision-making in Thailand to TSE and receive initial feedback on the project. Download here

In January 2019, the Minister of Health from Chhattisgarh state, India, reached out to International Health Policy Program (IHPP), a semi-autonomous research program in Thailand, to learn about the Thai experience of implementing Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The minister requested to meet with s