In Thailand, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is 17.5% of the population (Ingsathit et al., 2010). According to Thailand’s National Health Security Office (2021), in each year, this public health agency spends approximately 10,000 million Baht in renal dialysis and 1,000 million Baht f

Cervical cancer is a global public health problem, with approximately 500,000 new cases are identified each year globally. The disease is the most common cancer in women in the developing world and its mortality is very high–nearly 300,000 per year, 80% of which are in resource-poor settings. Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been proven as a major

This mission report summarises the activities and discussions during the second meeting of the Unit for Health Evidence and Policy (UHEP), held on September 1st, 2022. This meeting aimed to promote the understanding of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) topic prioritisation in Lao PDR and sharing Th

This report is the outcome of a Technical Capacity Mapping exercise which was conducted by Health Intervention and Technology Assessment program (HITAP) Thailand with the support from International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI). It was performed with an aim to gather information about Hea

The Indonesian government is strongly committed to Universal Health Coverage and acknowledges that health technology assessment (HTA) as an important tool for setting priorities for the health benefits package. Since the establishment of the HTA Committee, a number of Ministry of Health (MOH) and ac

Why do we need to make health technology assessment (HTA) more realistic? Is HTA not realistic nowadays? The answers can be both YES and NO.HTA is a form of research for synthesising data to evaluate properties, effects, and impacts of health interventions and technology in diffe

After decades of controversy, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new H.I.V. test on Tuesday that for the first time makes it possible for Americans to learn in the privacy of their homes whether they are infected.The availability of an H.I.V. test as easy to use as a home-pregnancy kit is y

Even in health care systems in which doctors do not bill for each test they administer, the use of diagnostic imaging like CT and PET scans has soared, as has patients’ radiation exposure, a new study has found.The study, published online on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Boonying Siribumrungwong , Pinit Noorit , Chumpon Wilasrusmee, Yot Teerawattananon, Ammarin Thakkinstian Summary Background/Objective To determine the quality of life (QoL) in Thais after intervention for great saphenous vein (GSV) reflux. Methods Patients with Clinical Etiologic Anatomic