Health

During 1996-2000, the health sector setup and developed 5 major groups of solution to strengthen the people health protection and care and obtained many achievements. This paper introduced some major achievement, difficulties and shortcomings as well as challenges currently. From which, the health sector developed an uniform policies and solutions including investment and distribution of human resource, enhancement of the preventive medicine, strengthening of the people health and consultation, implementation of decree No 90 of Vietnam government on the orientation and solution for socialization of education, cultural and health activities
Health ; Delivery of Health Care

This paper summarized the term 'equity' in the health care, concurrently introduced the detailed aspects of this in people health care and protection today
Delivery of Health Care ; health

This study introduced the human resource of communal health stations, 95% of which were Muong minority; female health staffs were 66.7%. The cultural level of health staffs in CHS was relatively high. They left high schools, their professional level: assistance doctor. The study introduced the high birth rate and high home delivery (75.8%). The rate of patients come to CHS was low (48.2%). The rate of self-medication was high (30.8%).
Delivery of Health Care ; Health

Among the 61 surveyed commune health stations (CHS) are staffed with medical doctors. Most of these physicians do not have enough knowledge on primary health care. Low salary and poor equipment are real constraints, thus it is difficult to encourage them to accept long-term working at CHS. The surveyors estimate that the performance quality of CHS staffed with medical doctors is about 20% higher than that of CHS without doctor.
Health ; Quality of Health Care

A study of working environment and health on 600 tunnel construction workers working in Central Region from 2001 to 2003 showed that: the working environment at the construction site was severely polluted with more than 60% of measured experiment samples were higher than the standard level. The deeper the tunnel is, the more severe the pollution is. The temperature, humidity, toxic gases (CO, CO2, and NO2), noise and dust tend to increase. The circulation speed of air, illumination power and level of O2 tend to decrease. The health of workers had a decrease tendency in the three year period. The common diseases are tooth, jaw and face diseases, ear, nose and throat diseases, circulation disease, eye diseases and eye related problems. The rate of work related accident reduced, mortality rate was 0.99%; the main causes leading to accidents at work were rock fall, fall, and mechanical devices; in work related accidents, the rate of soft tissue injury was high
Health, Environment, Health

The cross - sectional survey on 500 private medical units at Ha Noi (300) and Da Nang (200) in 2003 showed that the average amount of times providing with health care by unit is 1095; the private medical installation having greatest times providing with heath care have realized 11.650 times/year. Each unit has in average 1139 times for medical consult, the case of emergency is 5.023 times, in average is 61 times by unit; each gyneco–obstetrical clinic has in average consult with pregnant women in 361 cases, the ultrasonic service is 1.118-1.200 times by unit and in average 855 times for biological examine by unit
Delivery of Health Care ; Health

The health insurance is effective tool in making the health policies in many countries suffered a disease is sudden event and unpredictable. Therefore, it should have a system for sharing the hazard. This is a foundation of the health insurance system. The system help predicting the hazard level in the range of the large community.
Health services ; Insurance, Health

The humanitarian nature of campaign of 'Health for all and all for health' is to mobilized everybody in the community to participate the health care activity. This is a multifunctional key to implement the socialization of the health activity and important social basis to implement the orientation of equity and efficacy in the health care.
Health ; Delivery of Health Care

There were many events and achievement of the health sector. The strengthening and cosisodilation of the health network and primary health care contributed importantly to the people health protection and care. The year of 2002 play an very important role in strategy of health activity during 2001-2010. It should develop the obtained achievement, concurrently find the basic lesion and propose solutions for the health activity.
Health ; Delivery of Health Care