The Private Hospital Association has demanded the reimbursement rate for emergency patients under three different state-run health schemes be increased.The association has sent the request to the National Health Security Office and Public Health Ministry, NHSO secretary-general Dr Winai Sawadiworn s

Due to the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in aging populations and the prevalence of unhealthy lifestyles, end-stage renal disease (ESRD) that results from NCDs is a growing concern in Indonesia. With the target of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2019, public prov

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

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

นักวิจัย: Jomkwan Yothasamut, MA Jomkwan Yothasamut has received the Best Research Award for Public Health Research on “A Study of Economic Costs of Alcohol Consumption in Thailand” at the Annual Academics Conference hosted by the Thai Ministry of Public Health. The conference was held at Challenger

More rationing of care and charging for services in the NHS need to be considered as it faces at least a decade of austerity, experts say.The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the coming years will be the toughest since the early 1950s when dental and prescription fees were introduced.Other measures

Abstract Return on investment (ROI) analysis is increasingly being used for evaluating the value for money of public health interventions. Given its potential role for informing health policies, it is important that there is a more comprehensive understanding of ROI analysis within the global

22nd May 2014Dr.Yot gave a Skype  interviewed to Richard Smith,Professor of Health System Economics & Dean of Faculty of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for making the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) VideoHere’re some behind th

Impact of the Introduction of Government Use Licences on the Drug Expenditure on Seven Medicines in Thailand. Adun Mohara, MSccorrespondenceemail, Inthira Yamabhai, MBA, Kakanang Chaisiri, BSPs, Sripen Tantivess, PhD, Yot Teerawattananon, PhD Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program

(Reuters) – Europe’s medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of pages of clinical trial information.The change is a landmark in transparency that puts E