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

In early 2019, the Philippines passed a Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Act that automatically enrolls all Filipino citizens in a national health insurance scheme under the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). P0F0F1 P Their aim, to improve the breadth and depth of healthcare cove

ROONGNAPA KHAMPANG1,2, SAWITRI ASSANANGKORNCHAI1 & YOT TEERAWATTANANON2 1Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, HatYai, Songkhla, Thailand, and 2Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Tha

Abstract Introduction. Many countries have introduced pay-for-performance (P4P) models to encourage health providers and institutions to provide good quality of care. In 2013, the National Health Security Office of Thailand introduced P4P, based on the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF),

Senegalese delegation with Dr. Yot Teerawattananon, Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai and Aparna Ananthakrishnan from HITAP We are very honored to have participated in the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) training and symposium.We have seen interestin

Up to a million people in the UK have “completely preventable” severe headaches caused by taking too many painkillers, doctors have said.They said some were trapped in a “vicious cycle” of taking pain relief, which then caused even more headaches.The warning came as part of the National Institute fo

In response to the request from Indonesia’s Ministry of Health (MOH), World Health Organization, South East Asia Regional Office (WHO SEARO) commissioned the HITAP International Unit (HIU) to provide support for the Package of Essential Non-communicable (PEN) disease intervention evaluation. The evaluation is predicted to include qualitative anal

(Reuters Health) – There’s more evidence that the new formulation of OxyContin, the time-release version of oxycodone, is discouraging abuse of the powerful drug.But the reformulation, introduced in August 2010 to make it harder to crush the medicine into powder, limiting the ability to snort, injec

Vaccination is a critical and cost-effective public health intervention that significantly reduces child mortality. Since the inception of the World Health Organization’s Expanded Program on Immunization (WHO-EPI) in 1974, vaccines have saved millions of lives, with a Lancet study highlighting that