Publication: Vietnam : Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage
Date
2014-08
ISSN
Published
2014-08
Author(s)
Barroy, Helene
Jarawan, Eva
Bales, Sarah
Abstract
Universal Health Coverage is a powerful
framework for a nation aiming to protect their population
against health risks. However, countries face multiple
challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC
strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country
experiences may enable to foster global and country progress
toward that goal. The study seeks to contribute to the
global effort of sharing potentially useful lessons to
address policy concerns on the design and implementation of
UHC strategies in LMICs. Vietnam is one of the LMICs that
have taken relatively quick and effective actions to expand
health coverage and improve financial protection in the last
two decades. The country study, first, takes stock of UHC
progress in Vietnam, examining both the breadth and the
depth of health coverage and assessing financial protection
and equity outputs (chapter one). Chapter two includes an
in-depth analysis of some of the major success strategies
and policy actions that the country took to expand health
coverage and financial protection for all, including for the
poor. Chapter three focuses on some of the UHC-related
challenges that the country faces in pursuing expansion and
sustaining UHC. Vietnam s experience suggests that, moving
toward greater UHC outputs, the system must be constantly
adjusted, and that UHC strategies must be adaptive, those
used in the past to cover the formal sector and the poor may
turn out inadequate to reach the uninsured in the informal sector.
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Citation
“Barroy, Helene; Jarawan, Eva; Bales, Sarah. 2014. Vietnam : Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage. Health, nutrition, and population (HNP)
discussion paper;. © World Bank Group, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20739 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”