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Moving toward universal coverage of social health insurance in Vietnam Aparnaa Somanathan

Moving toward universal coverage of social health insurance in Vietnam By Aparnaa Somanathan

Moving toward universal coverage of social health insurance in Vietnam by Aparnaa Somanathan


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Over the past two decades Vietnam has made enormous progress towards achieving universal coverage (UC) for its population. Significant challenges remain, however, in terms of improving equity with continuing low rates of enrolment. The objective of this report is to assess the implementation of Vietnam SHI and provide options for moving towards UC.

Moving toward universal coverage of social health insurance in Vietnam Summary

Moving toward universal coverage of social health insurance in Vietnam: assessment and options by Aparnaa Somanathan

Over the past two decades Vietnam has made enormous progress towards achieving universal coverage (UC) for its population. Significant challenges remain, however, in terms of improving equity with continuing low rates of enrollment. Ensuring financial protection also remains an elusive goal. The Master Plan for Universal Coverage approved in 2012 by the Prime Minister directly addresses both these deficiencies in coverage. The objective of this report is to assess the implementation of Vietnam social health insurance and provide options for moving towards UC. This is a joint assessment with development partners, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and Rockefeller Foundation. Expanding breadth of coverage, particularly for those hard to reach groups such as the near-poor and informal sector would require substantially increasing general revenue subsidies and fully subsidizing the premiums for the near-poor. High enrollment rates would, however, have little impact on financial protection and equity if out of pocket costs remain high. Achieving UC will require sustained efforts to improve efficiency in the system, and gain better value for money from available budgetary resources; without these efforts, any further progress towards UC would be financially unsustainable

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NLS9781464802614
9781464802614
1464802610
Moving toward universal coverage of social health insurance in Vietnam: assessment and options by Aparnaa Somanathan
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Paperback
World Bank Publications
2014-06-30
176
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