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Assessing the impact of health promotion interventions using social marketing strategies among construction and factory workers (in Thai language)
The objective of this research is to study the risk factors of health in factory and construction workers at both individual and community levels. This study includes currently available health promotion measures that will provide suggestions for the development of these measures and/or create new measures usingthe societal marketing concept. This
A review of magnitude and impact of dental health system in Thailand (in Thai language)
This is a review of the magnitude and impact of dental health problems in Thailand. It reviews the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prevention intervention of dental measures both in Thailand and other countries. These findings will be sumitted to the Senate Standing Subcommittee for following up on the productin and the usage of dental pers
Spouses of heart attack survivors ‘suffer too’
Spouses of heart attack victims have an increased risk of depression and anxiety, even if their partner survives, Danish research suggests.The study found that in the year after losing a spouse to a heart attack, partners were three times more likely to start taking anti-depressants.Even if their pa
FDA approves Ironwood constipation drug
The drug, linaclotide, will be sold under the brand name Linzess and carry a boxed warning that it should not be used in patients 16 or younger, the agency said.An estimated 63 million people suffer from chronic constipation, according to the National Institutes of Health. Additionally, an estimated
Thalidomide victims: drugmaker’s apology not enough
(Reuters) – Victims of thalidomide said on Saturday an apology from the German inventor of the drug that caused birth defects in thousands of babies around the world was too little too late.Thalidomide, developed by the German firm Gruenenthal, was marketed internationally to pregnant women in the l
More Young Adults Have Insurance After Health Care Law, Study Says
Copies of the divisive 2010 Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health care overhaul, in the office of Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, and at the headquarters of Families USA, an advocacy group that supported it. A provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ policies
Photo Album HTAsialink 2018
HTAsiaLink 20188-11 May 2018, Chiang Mai, ThailandMore than 200 participants from over 30 HTA organizations and other academic and policy making agencies across the global joined this conference!The themes of this years’ conference is Testing Treatments: Strengthening HTA for better healthcare.For
TRF Senior Research Scholar Program on the Development of Health Technology Assessment Capacity in Thailand
17-207-2555Senior Research Scholar Program,Thailand Research Fund,TRF
Radiation Concerns Rise With Patients’ Exposure
Even in health care systems in which doctors do not bill for each test they administer, the use of diagnostic imaging like CT and PET scans has soared, as has patients’ radiation exposure, a new study has found.The study, published online on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association
Center for Global Development launched a report on “Priority-Setting in Health: Building institutions for smarter public spending”
“Health donors, policymakers, and practitioners continuously make life-and-death decisions about which type of patients receive what interventions, when, and at what cost. These decisions—as consequential as they are— often result from ad hoc, nontransparent processes driven more by inertia
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