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Hospitals, Public*

International collaborative Master in Public Health programs provide students wider opportunities to engage in vital public health related work with specific populations and communities to improve health through awareness, education, policy, and research. A transnational education model to promote academic exchange in public health is hereby showcased with the collaboration of the University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and the University of Leeds, Nuffield Center for International Health and Development. The program was established through initial institutional visits of each respective staff, faculty capacity building through workshops and symposia, and final agreement on a laddered structure of curriculum. This article describes how this program was established.

Background: Although Hanoi School of Public Health was established in the year 2001, 187 Masters of Public Health (MPH) graduated up to 2006. In order to improve the quality of training and find out the applicability of public health of these people, this study was carried out. Objectives: To assess the applicability as well as the frequency of the public health competencies that the alumni performed at current work. Subjects and method: 187 graduates were invited to complete a self - administered questionnaire and in-depth interviews were conducted with 8 alumni as well as a focus group discussion with 14 alumni, using group nominal technique. Results: In total, 79.1% (148) of the MPH graduates completed and returned the questionnaire. The most commonly selected of the 34 pre - identified public health competencies were: applying computer skills (66.4%), planning and managing health programs (47.9%), communicating with the community and/or mobilizing the community to participate in health care (43.2%). Although giving good comments for training program, ex-graduates still had problems when analyzing data and making decision in public health. Conclusions: These findings suggested that the training program should be reviewed and revised to meet the needs of its graduates who enter diverse situations and positions.
Master of Public Health ; Public health competency

Study on application of comprehensive quality management in 5 District health Centers of §èng §a and Gia L©m (Hµ Néi), Gia L­¬ng, Tiªn S¬n (Hµ B¾c) and Ch©u Giang (H­ng Yªn) was carried out. Method: Describe the suitable properties of application of comprehensive quality management for managers; compare the good and limited aspects of new method of management with current method. From which a process was introduced for application. Conclusion: The comprehensive quality management is a simple, high effective method of management
Public Health Administration ; Education ; public health

Background. The Republic Act 7305 or the Magna Carta of Public Health Workers was enacted in 1992 to address health workers' welfare. However, the implementation of this act was reportedly inconsistent among local government units (LGUs). Objectives. This study was conducted to determine the implementation status of provisions under the law among LGUs. Methods. This is a descriptive case study employing mixed methods. The quantitative data were derived from LGU scorecards, and the qualitative data were obtained from focus group discussions and key informant interviews of mayors, municipal health officers, and budget officers. Results. A total of 1,557 LGU scorecards with 2017 data showed that more than half (52.0%) of LGUs do not provide the full benefits of hazard pay, subsistence allowance, and laundry allowance. Disaggregation by income class showed that the provision of benefits is higher among LGUs with higher income classes (56.10%) compared to LGUs of lower-income classes (38.73%), and this translates to a correlation of income class with the provision of benefits (χ2=59.0, p<0.001). Factors influencing the provision of benefits include the political will of the mayor, the active role of municipal health staff to lobby for their rights, the limited resources of the LGU, the personnel services budget ceiling, the lack of enforcement of the law, and the limiting specifications of the law. Conclusion. This study demonstrated that the Magna Carta benefits for public health workers in municipalities and cities are inadequately implemented. Local governments must enforce public health workers' rights and benefits, but the national government should aid and ensure its unvarying implementation.
Humans ; Public Health ; Public Policy ; Health Policy

Surveyed on 8 plant protective facilities and interviewed 500 agricultural households which used pesticide at 10 communes of 5 districts in Quang Tri province. The amount of used pesticide in agriculture was 12 tons/year, herbicide in which 51,7%; insecticide 48,2%. There were various and abundant types of pesticide supplied by many sources from the state and private sectors. The implementation of toxic safety, storage, utilization and treatment of pesticide waste in the community was limited which influenced on the environment and public health.
Pesticides ; Public Health ; Environment

The report has evaluated guidance, management for health task in 1997 and policy and great solution of Branch in 1998. Including: (1) Directive ideology: improve a health index, decrease of the morbidity and mortality, realize equitableness in health care, socialization of health activity, strengthen effect of local health. (2) Important points: Realize Resolution of 2,3,4 (Central Executive Committee VIII of Vietnam Communist Party), decree 01/CP about local health organization, socialize health task, reform on Health administrative System procedures, mobilization of health resources, national policy of drug and health programs.
Public Health ; Orientation

(1) Some salient results attained: supply drug for people, manufacture, circulation, raising quality of drug; using safely sensibly drug; Strengthen governmental management task of drug, strengthen education. (2) challenges: organizational, realization ability of Party, Governmental policy have remainly limited. Health budget has not increased; Influence of market mechanism; Balance between preventive task and treatment
Public Policy ; Pharmacopoeias