Abstract Background Home dialysis (HoD) remains underutilized, despite evidence showing it provides comparable mortality rates to in-center hemodialysis (ICHD) while offering advantages such as improved quality of life and lower overall costs. This scoping review comprehensively evaluates the

นักวิจัย: Jomkwan Yothasamut, MA Jomkwan Yothasamut has received the Best Research Award for Public Health Research on “A Study of Economic Costs of Alcohol Consumption in Thailand” at the Annual Academics Conference hosted by the Thai Ministry of Public Health. The conference was held at Challenger

More rationing of care and charging for services in the NHS need to be considered as it faces at least a decade of austerity, experts say.The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the coming years will be the toughest since the early 1950s when dental and prescription fees were introduced.Other measures

Since Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is high on the global health agenda, governments of many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have pledged to increase health investments in order to offer universal access to essential health services. Health technology assessment (HTA) has been recognized

Pritaporn Kingkaew,1,* PitsaphunWerayingyong,1 San San Aye,2 Nilar Tin,3 Alaka Singh,4 Phone Myint2 and Yot Teerawattananon1 1Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand, 2Department of Health Planning and 3Department of Health,

เมื่อวันที่ 3 – 6 พ.ค. 59 คณะนักวิจัย HITAP เข้าร่วมการประชุมวิชาการประจำปี ครั้งที่ 5 ของ เครือข่ายการประเมินเทคโนโลยีด้านสุขภาพแห่งภูมิภาคเอเชีย หรือ 5th HTAsiaLink Annual Conference 2016  จัดโดย  The Ministry of Health, Singapore, the Health Services Research department of the Eastern Health Alli

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President Obama’s health care overhaul law, saying its requirement that most Americans obtain insurance or pay a penalty was authorized by Congress’s power to levy taxes. The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court’s

Abstract India is at crossroads with a commitment by the government to universal health coverage (UHC), driving efficiency and tackling waste across the public healthcare sector. Health technology assessment (HTA) is an important policy reform that can assist policy-makers to tackle inequities an

Health care priority setting in Norway a multicriteria decision analysis. Thierry DefechereuxEmail author, Francesco Paolucci, Andrew Mirelman, Sitaporn Youngkong, Grete Botten, Terje P Hagen and Louis W Niessen Abstract Background Priority setting in population health is increasingly base

“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