Among sensory impairment, hearing impairment is most found in the general population worldwide. WHO estimated in 2011 that more than 360 million people (5% of the world population) have disabling hearing loss. In the Thai population, the prevalence of hearing loss is 4%. Consequences of hearing impairment include inability to interpret speech sound

This study aims to review the application of alcohol policies and to assess roles of key players including the Thai Health promotion Foundation in reducing alcohol consumption between 1997 and 2007 in Thailand. The appropriateness of selected alcohol policies in terms of the content, enforcement and monitoring and evaluation was evaluated. A number

The Union of Myanmar is the largest country in mainland South-East Asia with a population of 57.5 million. It has a pluralistic mix of public and private healthcare systems. Although the Ministry of Health (MoH) is the main organisation responsible for healthcare provision, 70-80% of health service expenditure is now absorbed by the households. Thi

The Clinical Research Collaboration Network in collaboration with the HITAP conducted a clinical test of Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) regarding the treatment of relapse or resistant proliferative lupus nephritis. The objective of this research was to determine the efficacy of enteric-coated Mycophenolate Sodium combined with corticosteroids fo

Zidovudine (AZT) plus single dose nevirapine (AZT+sd-NVP) were provided to pregnant women with HIV infection who have CD4 > 200 cell/mm3 for preventing vertical transmission. However, three-drug regimen is provided to pregnant women with HIV infection regardless CD4 cell count in high resource countries. Mother to child transmission rate in preg

Cervical cancer is the major health problem among Thai women over a decade. There were an attempt to establish cervical cancer screening in Thailand for 40 years in order to reduce its incidence and mortality. Prior to the year 2005, the low coverage rate of the screening was observed. As a result, the cervical cancer screening programme in Thailan

This study consists of two sub-studies as follows: Sub-study 1) Development of guidelines defining targets and indicators of Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) using data from the cost of illness studies.  In this sub study, incidence-based cost of alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking will be calculated and then used to set the target

President Obama’s health care law is putting new strains on some of the nation’s most hard-pressed hospitals, by cutting aid they use to pay for emergency care for illegal immigrants, which they have long been required to provide.The federal government has been spending $20 billion annually to reimb

This study is a part of the research in “Research for development of health benefit package under universal coverage scheme”. This study aims to estimate social costs of health impact of people living inside and around industrial areas who risked acute myeloid leukemia (AML), in cases whereby AML was caused by benzene exposure. The result point

This study aims to evaluate the cost, effectiveness and feasibility of setting up routine offers of HIV counseling and testing in community hospitals. Three methodologies were used : the first was Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials in 16 community hospitals, the second was a cost-effectiveness analysis and the  third was qualitative research to