BANGKOK, 30 March 2012 – Health experts have asked the Thai government to raise the tax on tobacco to reduce the number of new smokers. Tobacco Control Research and Knowledge Management Center (TRC), government agencies, and the WHO have revealed a research finding, which says Thailand...
Closing the curtain of the 2nd Decade of Thailand’s Health Security System Conference, held from 21-22March, 2012 in Bangkok. Director of Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI), Dr. Pongpisut Jongudomsuk has given summary of opinion hearing from 536 healthcare staffs which constituted 36.9% of over 1,000 participants. The numbers included sub-district hospitals...
Globally, alcohol consumption is the third leading risk factor for death and disability. More than half of deaths due to harmful use of alcohol are resulted from non-communicable diseases such as cancers, cardiovascular diseases, liver cirrhosis, and infectious diseases such as HIV and TB as...