1. BackgroundSince 2011 the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and the National Health Security Office (NHSO) has collaborated in health promotion and disease prevention program, which aims to provide a high quality of health promotion and disease prevention services for all Thai people. Although the NHSO has indicators for health promotion and disea

The evaluation of health promotion interventions has also become increasingly important in Thailand, particularly evaluation of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness (Room et al. 2003). The past evaluations of ThaiHealth were the assessment of intermediate outcome e.g. alcohol consumption per capita, individual alcohol drinking pattern, aggregate al

The Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2020 took place in Bangkok between January 28th and February 2nd. This year PMAC was combined with the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Forum, and the theme for the conference was Accelerating Progress towards UHC. Every year the conference attracts an array

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 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

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

October 24, 2025 – At the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), the Environmental Economics Unit (E2U) of the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program Foundation (HITAP) participated in "The MoPH Greenhouse Gas Reduction Promotion Policy Announcem

This research and development project aims to (i) provide recommendations for development of the P&P policies for children aged 0-5 years old; (ii) develop mechanism for further development of the P&P policies for other groups of population that is systematic, evidence-based, transparent, participatory; (iii) establish health promotion and

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