The National Health Security Office Working Group (NHSO WG) conducted structured, evidence-based deliberations to generate recommendations for the National Health Security Board on the kidney replacement therapy (KRT) policy. These are the proposed recommendations: To consider defining KRT p

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

As innovative technologies and biological treatment are becoming available for use, policymakers worldwide will require a tool to evaluate the cost and assess the trade-offs. The concept of Total System Effectiveness (TSE) is an end-to-end analytical framework which is intended to inform future inve

The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP ) has tried to develop mechanisms for HTA topic selection that are systematic, transparent and participatory. HITAP has organized a topic selection workshop annually in order to obtain HTA topics from stakeholders including decision makers, health professionals, academics, patient rep

A few years ago, my daughter sprained her ankle at dance camp. What happened next offers a glimpse into some of the problems in our nation’s health care system.For years, we’ve been hearing that the United States spends more on health care than any other country, even as it lags far behind other cou

SUMMARY POINTS •  End stage renal disease (ESRD) is a life-threatening condition that results in most patients requiring a lifetime of high cost renal dialysis •  Governments have grappled with the political, economic, and ethical challenges of providing treatment with their available budgets •

In recent decades, there have been few new treatments for people with stubbornly high blood pressure. Exercise and a low-sodium diet, along with such stalwart drugs as diuretics, ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers, have made up the standard regimens.But these efforts fail in a surprising number of pat

Thunyarat Anothaisintawee has been graduated from Chulalongkorn University and was an internist at Lampoon Hospital. She has received certificate of Family Medicine from Pramongkutkloa Hospital. After that she has been worked as a faculty staff at Family Medicine Department, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University. Now, she is studying PhD program

Abstract Background Home dialysis (HoD) remains underutilized, despite evidence showing it provides comparable mortality rates to in-center hemodialysis (ICHD) while offering advantages such as improved quality of life and lower overall costs. This scoping review comprehensively evaluates the

Summary Medicines expenditure consumes a significant proportion of public health expenditure in Thailand, where Universal Health Coverage has been in place since 2002. The National List of Essential Medicines has been successfully used as a pharmaceutical benefits package for all public health plan