Health

Performing a direct investigation in 16 villages of four provinces and an indirect investigation in 100 villages of 15 provinces, authors have proposed a schema of structure of the health care system at basic level.
Delivery of Health Care ; 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

Results from some studies in rural area of Vietnam have shown that poor people are likely tend to sell assets while non poor people are able to pay for health care services. This makes poor people fall into poverty trap. Objectives: To identify the average household health expenditure during a year and sources of borrowing money and average amount of borrowing as well for health care services. Methods: 621 households were selected randomly from the Filabavi, Bavi District, Ha Tay Province. A longitudinal descriptive study was conducted for one year from July 2001 to June 2002. All selected households were interviewed one time per month. Results and conslusion: average payment household for health care services for one year was VND 519.000 (6.4% of total annual household income). Annual household income of poor group was VND 6,576,000, among this 8.4% was paid for health care services. There was 16.9% household had to borrow money for health care services average1y, while 23.1% of poor household had to borrow money for health care services. Borrowing sources included relatives (85%), neighbours (50%), Bank (26%), friends (15%), community organizations (9%) and private organizations with some interest (18%).
Health Expenditures, Rural Health

The conclusions of fertility rate were briefed from analysis of fertility result of Demographic and Health Survey through 2002. Currently, the average birth delivery is 1.9 child /woman. That figure is low among Asian countries. The lowest birth rate in urban women is 1.4; Southeast women are 1.4, women with high school certificate upward are 1.4. The average duration between two birth delivery increasing from 36 months in 1997 to 47 months in 2002 in general. The average age for the first delivery highest for urban women, southeast area women and women having high school certificate up ward. The rate of pregnancy in under age is low, highest for illiteracy women or under graduate primary school
Fertility ; Health Surveys ; Health

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