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Le, Sang Minh

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Last updated: June 1, 2024
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Sang Minh Le is a senior health specialist in the World Bank’s Viet Nam Country Office, where he works on human resource development in the health sector, digital health, environmental health, and public-private partnerships for health. For 20 years, he has provided policy advice and technical assistance to government agencies and health institutions in Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, and Viet Nam. Before joining the World Bank, he worked as a lecturer for a university and as a health expert for a consulting firm based in Hanoi, Viet Nam. He has published several books and numerous study reports. He holds a degree in general medicine, a master’s degree in public health, and a diploma in hospital management.

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    Human Resources for Mental Health Service Delivery in Viet Nam: Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-05-30) Le, Sang Minh; Hahn, Eric; Tran, Tu Anh; Mavituna, Selin; Ta, Tam Minh Thi
    "Human Resources for Mental Health Service Delivery in Viet Nam" provides an overview of the country’s current state of and challenges to mental health service delivery. The framework of the report is composed of four interconnected domains: health care, social services, education and mental health literacy, and informal care systems. The organizational structure, significant achievements, critical gaps, and problems in mental health service delivery at the institutional and community levels are highlighted in terms of public demand, availability, accessibility, and quality of service. The report uses new empirical data from surveys, workshops, and group discussions with key stakeholders. It describes the mental health workforce in Viet Nam and analyzes critical issues, including the shortage of professionals (psychiatrists, mental health nurses, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists, and others). Given the need to develop all levels of mental health care, the report addresses the uneven distribution of the provision of service between levels of health care institutions and rural and urban regions, competency mismatches, job satisfaction, recruitment, and challenges to the retention of mental health workers. The report also examines the need for mental health education and training at the institutional and structured program levels, as well as the supply constraints to the future development of the mental health workforce. The interdisciplinary team of authors emphasizes the urgent need for Viet Nam to strengthen its human resources for mental health service delivery toward achieving universal health coverage, including all mental disorders. The report’s evidence-based recommendations include multisectoral workforce planning; transformation of education and training; coordination, integration, and retention of the available workforce; improvement of the workforce governance framework; and strengthened mental health financing.
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    Review of Telemedicine Business Models in Vietnam: Findings, Challenges, and Recommendations
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-05-15) Vu, Lung; Le, Sang Minh; Vu, Ha Thai
    This review was conducted using secondary data combined with key informant interviews aiming to (1) understand the current state of telemedicine services in Viet Nam, their business models and challenges; and (2) provide recommendations to guide national-level policy makers on how to strengthen telemedicine services in Viet Nam. Over the past five years, Viet Nam has seen a moderate growth in the number of telemedicine services, revenues, service offerings, and patient volume. Furthermore, these services’ functionalities can be grouped in three major types: (1) providing access to a second opinion on imaging and diagnostic tests, especially for providers working at commune or district hospitals (disadvantaged/ lower level of care); (2) using teleconsultations to screen and triage patients, then move a small proportion of patients who need in-person visits to offline facilities; and (3) enabling digital provider-to provider consultations on certain disease conditions or diagnostics. The authors recommend the government of Viet Nam to urgently establish a regulatory framework to keep up with the rapid development of telemedicine services in the country, which includes clinical guidelines for telemedicine practices for ensuring quality of care and protecting health workers and patients.
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    Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Vietnam: Issues and Options
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2020-05-12) Le, Sang Minh; Govindaraj, Ramesh; Bredenkamp, Caryn
    This book describes the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector in Vietnam. It defines health-related PPPs, describes their key characteristics, and develops a taxonomy of the different types of PPPs that exist in practice, illustrated by international examples. It also assesses the regulatory and institutional framework for the health PPP program in Vietnam, as well as financing and accountability mechanisms for PPPs at its national and subnational levels. It provides an overview of the PPP project pipeline in Vietnam and analyzes important issues in the health PPPs’ design, preparation, and implementation, using eight case studies involving projects in different phases of the project cycle. This book also examines barriers that have hampered the successful design and implementation of health care PPPs in Vietnam. These barriers may be broadly categorized as barriers in the PPP policy and regulatory framework, in the public sector, in the private sector, and in the financial sector. It proposes feasible and actionable recommendations so that the government can consider tackling the identified barriers and advance the successful design and implementation of health PPPs.