Navinee Kruahong

All components of the outbreak investigation are likely to be performed actually in the field. Information systems, data integration, and system interoperability make possible and sometimes desirable for some components (e.g., data collection, data analysis, generating hypothesis) of “field” investigations to be performed off-site (e.g., by cen…[Read more]

Actually, I meant suicidal attempt and early signs of suicidal behavior surveillance. So sorry for a unclear name. However, absolutely agree on depression surveillance as a early signs of suicide attempt. Thank you.

Interesting case! Theoretically, it can be prevented by many measures. However, there are many confounders that contribute to the pathway of road injury. Especially, when the risk factor is drinking. Human behaviour is really hard to change. ไม่เห็นโลงศพไม่หลั่งน้ำตา. So, we might not be able to say 100% sure that this problem is preventable.

We need “Suicide surveillance” with highly important level.
In term of Burden and severity, suicide and self-inflicted injuries was the third leading cause of premature death from injury or disease (Globally). Moreover, suicide and self-inflicted injuries is the leading cause of premature death in young males and females aged 15–24 and in t…[Read more]

Totally agreed on the benefits of data on social media for early warning and controlling the transmission.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health. On the other hand it is a good opportunity to learn all types of surveillance systems because almost every surveillance systems have been applied to control this pandemic. I am going to explore existing COVID-19…[Read more]

Thailand has effective health surveillance for disease control especially active system. For example, an active surveillance system, since 3 January, Thailand had set up four infrared thermo scan units at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, Chiang Mai and Phuket International Airports for round-the-clock screening of all passengers, especially from China.…[Read more]

Steve is a good example of visionary leadership style. I don’t have enough knowledge of how he drove his organization but I used to watch his presentation and a documentary about his life. He always state how iPhone would change this world and the great impact of his technology. I think everyone one to be a part of a good change which is a great i…[Read more]

I thought that rewards are important to motivate people in an organization until I watch the video and learn about instinct drive. I had burnout symptoms few months ago. I thought because of the low income and rewarding. But I have just realized that I never want money for myself, I just need to see the great impact on people from the job I do. I…[Read more]

This is my favorite leadership style and I think it is the most effective way to lead people in an organization to strike the organization’s goals. According to the theory of motivation by Daniel H. Pink, this kind of leadership style can provide an environment of instinct motivation which enhances the sense of purpose.

Changing my job field from Environmental Health Science to Mental Health

This change happened when I was a thirst year student at Mahidol university. I was studying BSc Public Health and my major is Envi. I loved this course but there was a better option for me; I got a scholarship from the royal Thai government to study for a master degree…[Read more]

In one hand, I’m working in science of mental healthcare. We always encourage people to listen to their friends and their families because some mental health problems can be relieved by having someone who truly listen to them without judging. Listen even the silence. In another hand, I also work as a policy-maker which means my team have to listen…[Read more]

In term of ethics and data protection, I cannot share or use the personal data more than stated in the informed consent of research among local and migrant patients.
However, with a valid reason of benefit to population health, we should ask for permission from all local and migrant patients again about sharing their personal data, and do…[Read more]

As a health information professional, my responsibilities are to ensure the health records are maintained, used, manipulated only with the voluntary of the subjects, to assist healthcare workers in having appropriate timely, usability and integrity of the data, and importantly to avoid conflict of interest. In this case, I cannot tell anyone about…[Read more]

As my previous discussion, my department have tried to transform mental health screening from paper-based screening tools to internet-based screening tools. Due to limited time, my department didn’t prepare for managing the change regarding to the ADKAR model. Communication of the transformation was limited just in the exclusive board meeting and…[Read more]

Few months ago, a mental health center in my department developed a mental health screening application which can access via computers and mobile phones. The directors rush into the development because they wanted to response timely to COVID-19 outbreak. The application seems to benefit for all mental health workers across the country and also me…[Read more]

The development of evidence-based policy need information technology!

Unfortunately, at a policy decision making level, in the Department of Mental Health we don’t have any kind of ehealth or information system that is used to provide information supporting policy decision making. Most of policy always come from a group of persons- general director and experts. They review and use best practices from other…[Read more]

– Cannot sharing and comparing health information between hospitals, regions, settings and countries.
– Hard to storage, retrieval and analysis of health information for evidenced-based decision-making.
– Hard to compare data in the same location across different time periods.
– Cannot use data for research purposes.
– Cannot use data for…[Read more]

What do you think about this finding?
Burnout, a state of mental exhaustion resulting from chronic stress in the working situation. Burnout is commonly regarded as a syndrome comprising three dimensions; emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation (refers to a cynical, negative attitude towards one’s work or towards the recipients of one’s ser…[Read more]