There is increasing impetus to use pharmaceutical interventions, ie, ranibizumab or bevacizumab, for the treatment of particular macular diseases. This study conducts the evidence synthesis to inform policy decision-making of the National List of Essential Medicines Committee that recently announced the inclusion of bevacizumab for the treatment of

Alcohol addiction has been identified as one of the leading causes of disability adjusted life years in Thailand. This umbrella review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the interventions that are effective in the prevention and treatment of harmful alcohol use, and to provide a comparison with existing interventions provided in Thailand.

This study aimed to survey experience, knowledge, importance, training needs and barriers of economic evaluation and to estimate the current human capacity and gaps in economic evaluation among researchers and policymakers in both the public and private sectors in Thailand. Based on the results, it was found that researchers, healthcare personnel,

Capacity building aims at expanding researchers’ competence and capacity, and consists of 3 approaches as follows: a. Increasing the number of mentorships by selecting highly equipped Ph.D. graduates who have made a commitment to participate in HITAP, and to increase the experience and transfer of knowledge to young researchers in an apprenticesh

Ministry of Public Health, the Royal Thai Government, has been entrusted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to co-host the First Global Forum on Medical Devices, scheduled to take place September 9th-11th, 2010, at the Hotel Plaza Athenee, Bangkok. The event attracted over 300 stakeholders, such as policy makers, scholars and health professiona

\"First Step”, a program evaluation report, assessing HITAP’s two-year efforts and providing recommendations for further development of HITAP. This program evaluation was conducted by four external evaluators including Prof. John Cairns, Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou, Prof. Paibul Suriyawongpaisal, and Dr. Jirawat Panpiemras. Moreover, Prof. Mark Sculp

The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) was established in 2007 as a non-profit organization. Its main responsibility is to assess health interventions and technology assessment with the coverage of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, interventions, individual and community health promotions and disease prevention, as well a

Since the Subcommittee for Development of Benefits and Service system under the Universal Coverage Scheme, the National Health Security Office considers that there are health measures not included in the health benefit package under the universal coverage scheme. Some measures are already in the benefits package, but they are expensive and service

This study aims to explore effectiveness of home visit on clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes employing systematic review. Home visits for all diseases and within all patient groups are included, provided that inclusion criteria are met. Results are expected to be useful for (1) developing guidelines for home visit for health professionals,

This is an intervention study research covers 18 districts in two provinces in the North of Thailand aiming at measuring effects of interventions. Three interventions are developed, namely (1) provision of supporting suicide prevention tools/guidelines for health volunteer and community leaders, (2) development of existing hotline and (3) use of co