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Yot Teerawattananon

Program Leader

Thailand

Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP)

Costing Modelling Health policy

Biography

Dr. Yot Teerawattananon is a founding leader of the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), which is a semi-autonomous research institute of Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. The works of HITAP have been used to inform policy decisions regarding the adoption of medicines, medical devices, health promotion and disease prevention programmes under the Universal Health Coverage Scheme and the national pharmaceutical reimbursement list, the National List of Essential Medicines.

Yot has gone on to provide technical advice to many national and international agencies such as: the Gates Foundation, WHO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and the Centre for Global Development (CGD), giving him a broad knowledge of key issues in global health. He is also one of the founders of HTAsiaLink, a regional networks comprising of governmental health technology assessment agencies in South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Bhutan and Thailand.

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Can discount rates use the country’s inflation rates, instead of using rates such as 3-6%, as indicated in some guidelines?

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If a hospital would like to undertake a study on economic evaluation, what threshold should the hospital use? Since threshold is applied on a national level, can the hospital simply use ACER instead of ICER? Many

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Yot Teerawattananon

Program Leader

Biography

CEA studies may be prospective studies or modelled studies

Can discount rates use the country’s inflation rates, instead of using rates such as 3-6%, as indicated in some guidelines?

If a hospital would like to undertake a study on economic evaluation, what threshold should the hospital use? Since threshold is applied on a national level, can the hospital simply use ACER instead of ICER? Many

Why should countries consider using MCDA, in addition to economic evaluations?

How to prevent drug companies to mess with my economic evaluation study??

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