Background: Telemedicine has transformed health care delivery, offering improved access, efficiency, and potentially cost-effectiveness. However, wide-scale implementation is challenged due to multiple factors. Among these, reimbursements were reported to influence the scalability and sustainabilit

Rapeepong Suphanchaimat1,2 Angkana Sommanustweechai1 , Chiraporn Khitdee1 , Chompoonut Thaichinda1 , Kanang Kantamaturapoj3 , Pattara Leelahavarong4 , Pensom Jumriangrit1 , Thitikorn Topothai1 , Thunthita Wisaijohn1 Weerasak Putthasri1 1International Health Policy Program (IHPP), Ministry of Publi

The Health Technology Assessment (HTA), which is a crucial tool for setting health intervention priorities, has been rapidly developing in Asia-Pacific, but is still not fully employed by many countries in policy decision making. Although HTA institutions and networks have been operating successfully in OECD countries and a few of the middle-income

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) that include li

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

“Health donors, policymakers, and practitioners continuously make life-and-death decisions about which type of patients receive what interventions, when, and at what cost. These decisions—as consequential as they are— often result from ad hoc, nontransparent processes driven more by inertia and inte

Epidemiological modelling is an important tool to help public health planners understand potential disease outcomes in the population. The recent visibility of models and their perceived influence in the decision-making processes surrounding the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a great d

Multi-criteria decision analysis to prioritize health interventions: Capitalizing on first experiences. Rob Baltussen1, Sitapon Youngkong11,2, Francesco Paolucci3, Louis Niessen4 1 Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands 2 Health I

          Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program hosted a health economic evaluation workshop, Methods for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: An Advance Workshop on 28th-30th July 2010 at Richmond Hotel, Nonthaburi, Thailand. This workshop was ru

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