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Dr Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan B.A. (Economics) Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand M.A. (Int’l Relations) Syracuse University, New York, USA PhD ANU Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 4 3780 1255 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: vasoontara.yieng@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Inequalities in health
• Economic globalisation and its impact on health
• Migration of healthcare workers

Recent Publications

Yiengprugsawan V, Lim LL, Carmichael GA, Sidorenko A, Sleigh AC. Measuring and decomposing inequity in self-reported morbidity and self-assessed health in Thailand. International Journal for Equity in Health 2007; 6(1):23 doi:10.1186/1475-9276-6-23.

Yiengprugsawan V, Lim LL, Carmichael GA, Suebsman, S, Sleigh AC. Tracking and decomposing health and disease inequity in Thailand. Annals of Epidemiology 2009; doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2009.04.009

Yiengprugsawan V, Carmichael GA, Lim LL, Suebsman, S, Sleigh AC. Has universal health insurance reduced urban-rural inequalities in health service use in Thailand? (under review)

Yiengprugsawan V, Dear KBG, Lim LL, Carmichael GA, Sleigh AC. Decomposing inequality for binary outcomes: an improved method that does not vary by choice of reference group. (under review)

Yiengprugsawan V, Lim LL, Suebsman, S, Sleigh AC. Use and foregone health services among a cohort of 87,134 adult open university students in Thailand. (under review)

Suebsman S, Kelly M, Yiengprugsawan V, Sleigh AC. Gender, socioeconomic status and self-rated health in a transitional middle income setting: evidence from Thailand. (under review)