Background: Inequalities in socioeconomic conditions and their effects on people's lives determine their risk of illness and the actions taken to prevent or treat illness when it occurs. Objective: This study aimed to determine effects of financial capacity on accessibility of health care. Methodology: Survey questionnaires were distributed at the FMC -OPD follow-up clinic. The study population included patients with chronic diseases. Descriptive statistics and Fisher's exact test were utilized for analysis. Results: Ninety-four respondents completed the questionnaires. Their mean age is 52, composed of 64.9% female and 34.1% male; two-thirds of them are married and live within NCR. They live with others, ranging 4-6 family members. Around 81 percent are unemployed; those with work are in the service industry. Almost 43% (40%) are with family income within Php2,000-5,000; around 20 percent earn either below Php2/000 or above Php5,000. Of the total income, 61 percent is allotted to food, non-food needs are about 20 percent, and health is about 9.5 percent. Among the socio-demographic characteristics, only family income showed significant association with the patient's decision to consult/ acquire medications and compliance with diagnostic work-up/ with P-values of 0.02, 0.02 and 0.05 respectively. For those with money on-hand concerns, 28.7% would not consult if they have Php 500, they would consult with certainty. Moreover, 53.2% would intermittently take their medications and 28.7 percent would borrow money just to be able to buy medicines. On the contrary, 54.3 percent would borrow money just to do the laboratory exams and 18.1 percent would not comply with all exams requested. Conclusion: Most of the respondents are non-earning and depend on their family's income for health support. To be able to consult, financial capacity threshold is Php201-300 but at >Php500, there is certainty to consult. More than half have poor compliance with medications, but also, would borrow money just to do diagnostic work-up. It seems that the respondents are more willing to spend and know the disease, rather than comply with treatment.
HEALTH CARE

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 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

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

50 patients with 50 teeth with dental stem defect due to the endodontis (74%) and other causes received the reconstruction by false cast and post. The primary results found that the rate of good reconstruction was 88%. The shortcomings of technique comprised longer duration of reconstruction and higher cost
Dental Care ; Delivery of Health Care