This study aims to assess both the cost and the appropriate medical indications of using Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET-CT) under the Thai setting. It also estimates the potential need and supply to meet the need of PET-CT within the next five years. A systematic review and meta-analysis of literature published in the PubMed

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

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

An aim of this study is to describe quantitatively and qualitatively progression and findings from the HTA topic selection process recently developed by HITAP. The process involves potential users of HTA information; namely (1) third party payers (public health insurers), (2) national health care program managers (Ministry of Public Health’s Depa

Thailand has promoted the use of herbal medicine for many years, but the value of herbal medicine in public health facilities does not meet the established target. The survey of health practitioners towards herbal medicine and the policy in promotion of the use of herbal medicine in health practitioners gives us information reinforcing and resistan

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

There have been an increasing number of people undergoing cataract surgery in the past five years, especially with those under the Unicersal Coverage Scheme (UC). Improtant factors contributing to this have included an increase in the number of opthalmologists and an increase in the population of Thai provinces. For facotrs influencing the type of

This study is the first stage under the project of development and evaluation concerning the effectiveness of measures to prevent self-harm in Thailand. The problem conditions, involved factors, signals prior to self-harm and measures to prevent self-harm in selected province were studied. The study results illustrate the problems of inaccessibili

This suggestion report aims to present how to manage and utilize the existing researches to policy and how to enhance the research capacity of the EMS agencies201-344-2553

The objective of this study is to determine the economic evaluation of absorbent products for urinary and fecal incontinence among disabled and elderly people in Thailand by taking the monthly average expense of adult diapers, incontinence pads of approximately 2,000 Baht per person into consideration.While a majority of disabled people and depende