Home Page » Publications
emailIconEmail this page bookmarkIconBookmark this page printIconPrint
Health insurance in Viet Nam towards universal coverage: The case of the workers of the informal sector
Author: Paulette Castel, Tran Mai Oanh, Tran Ngo Thi Minh Tam and Vu Hoang Dat
Published Date: 2011-12-20
Summary:

The 2008 Law on Health Insurance targets comprehensive health insurance coverage by 2014. In 2009, health insurance was expanded to 58.4% of the population, demonstrating the efforts of the Government to expand the provision of health care. However, extending the coverage of health insurance to the remaining 41.6% of the population, or 35.7 million people, is a challenging task. First of all, even those individuals whose participation is subsidized appear reluctant to join the scheme. Secondly, those who are not insured predominantly work in the informal sector and are hard to track. Understanding and eliminating the obstacles that explain the unwillingness to participate in health insurance should therefore be part of any strategy to improve health insurance coverage. Understanding these obstacles is at the heart of this brief, and the study which underpins it, which focuses on workers in the informal sector and their family members.

Related Publications

^ Back to Top