Infectious disease modelling have played a defining role in managing the COVID-19 pandemic and their use is expected to rise owing to emerging disease outbreaks. Hence, countries have recognised the need to strengthen the capacity to use such models to prepare, manage, and exit outbreaks by answering difficult and dynamic policy questions.   The

Stories of knowledge translation: lessons learned from three years of experience working in a policy research unit under the Thai Ministry of Public Health Jomkwan Yothasamut Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Thai Ministry of Public Health Introduction Quality reseach ca

Fear of being stigmatized as an AIDS patient is still a major barrier to good medical care for pregnant young women in many countries, a new study and a literature review have found.The study, based on a survey of 1,777 women in rural Nyanza Province in Kenya, was published Wednesday in PLoS Medicin

The debate over the price of the vaccine against HPV has become intense http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/family/295534/stepping-up-the-campaign-against-cervical-cancerWhen it comes to making the shot against cervical cancer the national vaccine programme, which means girls be

 The Food and Drug Administration ordered St. Jude Medical on Thursday to conduct additional studies on patients implanted with heart-device components that were recalled last year and that have been linked to as many as 20 deaths. It also recommended that patients receive X-rays or other imaging to

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

Before the pandemic, many countries recognized the importance of regional collaboration in preparing for future pandemics, whether within ASEAN or the broader Asua Pacific region. In 2019, the SSHSPH discussed with the DFAT Australia for funding and support to this initiative, and the onset of the pandemic provided the impetus for it to move forwar

By Branwen Jeffreys and Nick Triggle BBC NewsAn NHS hospital trust has been formally warned it could be declared bust – in the first case of its kind.South London Healthcare, which runs three hospitals, had debts of £69m at the start of the financial year.The health secretary has told the trust an a

Cost-effectiveness and availability of alternative treatment options play a crucial role in the listing of new medicines in South Korea. However, high-cost medicines with no alternative treatment options, particularly those for treating cancer and rare diseases, were not reimbursed under the traditi

Thailand introduced and legislated Universal Health Coverage (UHC), “30 baht treats all disease project”, in 2001. The scheme covered approximately 47 million people who were not insured by Thailand\'s other existing large scale insurance schemes. This work aims to 1) understand how UHC affects and alters households’ routine life decisions, a