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)