01/04/2024 07:10 AM

Policymakers, health care systems, and families are all facing the question of how to provide high-quality long-term care and how to finance that care growing senior population. According to the World Health Organization, “Long-term care includes a broad range of personal, social, and medical services and support that ensure people with, or at risk of, a significant loss of intrinsic capacity (due to mental or physical illness and disability) can maintain a level of functional ability consistent with their basic rights and human dignity.” (WHO, 2022)

29/03/2024 03:45 PM

In the first quarter of 2024, Vietnam social insurance industry has implemented synchronous and unified administrative reform in the fields of: Administrative organization, apparatus organization, public service regime, public finance and build-up and development of a digital Government.

29/03/2024 10:25 AM

This report provides new estimates of the profits generated from forced labour and assesses how profits have changed since the last ILO estimates were published in 2014.

29/03/2024 09:30 AM

On the morning of March 12th, Vietnam Social Security (VSS) organized an online conference to implement the health insurance policies for the last 9 months of 2024. Deputy Director General of VSS, Nguyen Duc Hoa, chaired the conference with the participation of leaders from several units under VSS, the Ministry of National Defense's Social Insurance Agency, the People's Public Security Insurance Agency, and local social security offices.

29/03/2024 09:25 AM

Since the World Health Organization declared tuberculosis (TB) to be a global health emergency in 1993, global efforts to address TB have become more prominent, and worldwide TB incidence and mortality rates have fallen. In Viet Nam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh recently ordered efforts to be exerted to enhance the tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control efforts.

28/03/2024 01:15 PM

On the afternoon of March 14, the Task Force of Government Project 06 worked with Hanoi City on several key tasks in implementing the project in the area.

28/03/2024 10:55 AM

According to the provisions outlined in the Social Insurance Law, voluntary social insurance participants who have reached the retirement age but haven't fulfilled the required number of years of insurance contributions can opt for a lump sum payment in order to become eligible for pension.

27/03/2024 05:45 PM

Resolution No. 28-NQ/TW, issued on May 23, 2018 of the Party Central Committee, is considered to have the contents of reforming the social insurance policy progressively, approaching social security standards in Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Organization (ILO). The improvement of the reform-oriented social insurance policy in line with Resolution No. 28 will create new breakthroughs, the interests of social insurance participants will be increasingly better guaranteed.