Abstract BACKGROUND: Economic evaluation has been implemented to inform policy in many areas, including coverage decisions, technology pricing, and the development of clinical practice guidelines. However, there are barriers to evidence-based policy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) th

The EVIDEM framework and its usefulness for priority setting across a broad range of health interventions Download at http://www.resource-allocation.com/content/9/1/8 Sitaporn Youngkong1,2*, Noor Tromp1† and Dereck Chitama1,3† * Corresponding author: Sitaporn Youngkong [email protected]

Pritaporn Kingkaew BPharm, MSc*, Yot Teerawattananon MD, PhD* * Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Nonthaburi, Thailand While many of the principles that guide the economic evaluation of medical devices are somewhat similar to those that guide the evaluation of other

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15947778Nearly 7,000 out of just over 30,000 were thought to have been affected, while tens of thousands of appointments and tests were also hit across the UK. But emergency services were kept running as unions and managers agreed contingency plans ahead of the walko

Strengthening Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Thailand through the Establishment of the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program. Tantivess S1 Teerawattananon Y1 Mills A1 1 Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand 2 London

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