Research Catalog

Title

Health financing and delivery in Vietnam : looking forward / by Samuel S. Lieberman and Adam Wagstaff.

Author

Lieberman, Samuel S.

Publication

Washington, DC : World Bank, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wagstaff, Adam.
• World Bank

Description

xi, 171 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This book reviews Vietnam's successes and the challenges it faces, and goes on to suggest some options for further reforming the country's health system. Options for expanding coverage to 100 percent of the population are compared. The issue of how to deepen coverage, so that insurance reduces out-of-pocket spending by more than it does at present, is also discussed, as is the issue of how to put downward pressure on the cost of health care. The book also looks at the issues of how to improve the quality of care, both overall and at the hospital level, and how to reform provider payment methods. It also looks at the issue of stewardship, what different parts of government (the health ministry, the health insurer, and so on) should be doing at each level of government, and what different levels of government (the central government, provincial government, and so forth) ought to be doing.

Series Statement

Health, nutrition, and population series

Uniform Title

Health, nutrition, and population series.

Subjects

• National Health Programs
• Medical policy > Vietnam
• Health care reform > Vietnam
• Medical care > Vietnam > Finance
• Health insurance > Vietnam
• Vietnam
• Delivery of Health Care
• Health Care Costs
• Health Care Reform
• Health Expenditures
• Health Policy
• Insurance, Health

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-164) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Vietnam's health system since DOI MOI -- Recent trends in Vietnam's health sector performance -- Health insurance -- Reforming health insurance -- Service delivery -- Reforming service delivery -- Decentralization and government stewardship.

ISBN

• 9780821377826 (alk. paper)
• 0821377825 (alk. paper)
• 9780821377833 (eISBN)
• 0821377833 (eISBN)

LCCN

^^2008041838

OCLC

256770451

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library