The objective of this study is to assess the results and key success factors of the evaluation of the outcomes and the determinants of the pilot project of the cervical cancer screen program using Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid technique and sequential pap smear in Chiang Mai and Nakorn Si Thammarat in 2009.  13-301-2552

Cervical cancer is the major health problem among Thai women over a decade. There were an attempt to establish cervical cancer screening in Thailand for 40 years in order to reduce its incidence and mortality. Prior to the year 2005, the low coverage rate of the screening was observed. As a result, the cervical cancer screening programme in Thailan

This study consists of two sub-studies as follows: Sub-study 1) Development of guidelines defining targets and indicators of Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) using data from the cost of illness studies.  In this sub study, incidence-based cost of alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking will be calculated and then used to set the target

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

This study is a part of the research in “Research for development of health benefit package under universal coverage scheme”. This study aims to estimate social costs of health impact of people living inside and around industrial areas who risked acute myeloid leukemia (AML), in cases whereby AML was caused by benzene exposure. The result point

This project aims to study the health screening system in developed countries and in Thailand in terms of structure, authority and management of the organizations. In addition the market value of health screening services in both public and private sectors in Thailand will be estimated.  201-347-2553health screening,health screening systems,popul

This study aims to evaluate the cost, effectiveness and feasibility of setting up routine offers of HIV counseling and testing in community hospitals. Three methodologies were used : the first was Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials in 16 community hospitals, the second was a cost-effectiveness analysis and the  third was qualitative research to

The objective of this research is to study the risk factors of health in factory and construction workers at both individual and community levels. This study includes currently available health promotion measures that will provide suggestions for the development of these measures and/or create new measures usingthe societal marketing concept. This

This is a review of the magnitude and impact of dental health problems in Thailand. It reviews the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prevention intervention of dental measures both in Thailand and other countries. These findings will be sumitted to the Senate Standing Subcommittee for following up on the productin and the usage of dental pers

This research aimed to develop the population-based preference scores of the EQ-5D-5L (the 5L), Thai version in an effort to compare the measurement properties of the 5L with those of the EQ-5D-3L (the 3L), and to compare the results of an economic evaluation from a 2014 study that used the 5L compared with the 3L. To elicit population-based prefer