This study aims to explore effectiveness of home visit on clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes employing systematic review. Home visits for all diseases and within all patient groups are included, provided that inclusion criteria are met. Results are expected to be useful for (1) developing guidelines for home visit for health professionals,

Background: Osteoporosis, a reduction in bone strength, is one of the most significant factors contributing to fractures, particularly in postmenopausal women. It affects not only patients’ life expectancy and quality of life, but also household expenditure on healthcare costs. Various screening methods to identify the risk of developing osteopo

This is an intervention study research covers 18 districts in two provinces in the North of Thailand aiming at measuring effects of interventions. Three interventions are developed, namely (1) provision of supporting suicide prevention tools/guidelines for health volunteer and community leaders, (2) development of existing hotline and (3) use of co

The more controversial of two papers describing how the lethal H5N1 bird flu could be made easier to spread was published Thursday, six months after a scientific advisory board suggested that the papers’ most potentially dangerous data be censored.The paper, by scientists at Erasmus Medical Center i

This study aims to assess the impact of the compulsory licensing (CL ) policy issued by Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health during December 2006 to January 2008 on antiretroviral drugs - efavirenz and lopinavir/ritonavir combination, an oral antiplatelet agent - clopidogrel, and four anti-cancer drugs - imatinib, erlotinib, letrozole, and doceta

The study suggests that the price of patented medicine in Thailand should be controlled based on equity pricing and outcome pricing. Equity pricing can be estimated from the international reference price and outcome pricing can be evaluated from therapeutic referencing or the pharmacoeconomic price. Moreover, in a case study of 7 medicines granted

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

Introduction: Cervical cancer is a major cause of deaths in female in low- and middle-income countries. The disease is preventable by introducing screening tests such as Pap smears, visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and HPV DNA testing. Recently, the first vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) was introduced to the health care market t

This study is the first stage under the project of development and evaluation concerning the effectiveness of measures to prevent self-harm in Thailand. The problem conditions, involved factors, signals prior to self-harm and measures to prevent self-harm in selected province were studied. The study results illustrate the problems of inaccessibili

The scientific information to support the causal relationship between input/output and outcome/impact of HIV prevention is inadequate and fragmented. A properly conducted economic evaluation could present reasoned and justifiable arguments as to why more or fewer resources should be directed towards particular HIV prevention interventions. However,