Editorial

Abstract

April has arrived, it is a time for Thais to cerebrate their own new year. The traditional Thai New Year celebration has been organized through “The Songkran Festival”. The festival is officially observed through a three-day national holiday. This signifies the start of the Thai New Year. People clean their homes and public places like temples to get rid of any bad luck from the previous year and be ready for the new year. It is also a time to pay respect to elders. A time for family reunion to be blessed by the elders (parents) and by the monks as well. Songkran is cerebrated practically by everyone, everywhere throughout the country. It is the occasion of people gathering to show gratitude to the elders, to celebrate the community through merit making, and to care for environment, rivers and canals. Additional activities include the cleaning of public places, practicing dharma, listening to sermons, giving alms to monks. This year, 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an organized new ways of life to find a common ground between traditional way and a new way of life. A large number of families still maintain valuable traditions, by organizing a virtual Songkran links between traditional values in different dimensions and a new normal way of living that emphasizes the safety of health.

The Journal of Chulabhorn Royal Academy (JCRA), Volume 4, Number 2 (April - June 2022) delivered via electronic online system of the Thai Journals Online (ThaiJO) management system. It is supported by many sectors with continuous development to aim for the internationalization of academic journals in the system. The editorial board of the JCRA would like to thank those involved for the continuous development of the system.

This issue consists of research and academic articles from various institutions. Through the screening by experts in respective fields, our academic articles have become more and more valuable. The articles inside this issue are related to such areas as elderly health condition in the community, heart disease, and cancer that tends to increase, if not prevented, diagnosed, treated and rehabilitated appropriately. Additionally, this issue presents work on infection after skin tattooing which is more popular among the young generation.

The JCRA editorial board would like to express our gratitude to those who have been involved in every aspect to make the journal another quality academic forum for academicians in the fields of medicine, public health and health sciences.

Professor Nithi Mahanonda, M.D.

Chief Editor