15/10/2024 08:31 AM

Poverty reduction is both a component in and an outcome of a comprehensive, multi-layered, inclusive, universal, rights-based, gender sensitive and shock-responsive social protection system (SPS). A comprehensive social protection system minimizes risks to well-being from social, environmental and economic factors and from normal life events such as illness, aging and the costs of raising children. It also provides help to people who are unable to provide for themselves because of disability and structural economic factors.

10/10/2024 03:12 PM

Direct payment of medicines and medical devices to individuals covered by health insurance receives the agreement from many people because this regulation creates favorable condition for health insurance participants.

09/10/2024 09:11 AM

For women, and particularly older women, access to social protection can mean the difference between a dignified life and a struggle for survival. Yet, as they reach their mid-30s, many face challenges in sustaining both their employment and health, experts have said. This has highlighted the need to be a policy to ensure the social welfare rights of middle-aged female workers.

08/10/2024 01:56 PM

Social pensions are a critical element of the right to social security for older persons whose human rights enjoyment is endangered without an adequate social pension. Older women are especially at risk. They live longer, and the unpaid care work they perform throughout their life obstructs their ability to access formal employment and therefore contributory social security or decent wages. Social and economic policies should correct this imbalance by promoting equality between women and men instead of deepening the gap.

27/09/2024 09:30 AM

Germany has been the leading economic partner of Vietnam in Europe and Vietnam is one of Germany's major trade partners in Southeast Asia. Cooperation with Germany has benefited Việt Nam in infrastructure improvement and human resources development, ensure social security for labors... At the same time, the two countries' cooperation creates opportunities for Vietnamese workers and youngsters to access vocational training according to international standards​.

26/09/2024 03:30 PM

Social insurance is a main pillar of the social security system in Vietnam’s socialist-oriented market economy. Proper implementation of social insurance is the duty of the entire political system. Currently, Vietnam is undergoing a population aging process where the proportion of people of working age is decreasing, and the dependency ratio is increasing. According to MOLISA's Minister Dao Ngoc Dung, increasing retirement age could be considered an inevitable solution for coping with population ageing, improving gender equality, meeting market demands, and ensuring long-term balance of the social insurance fund.

26/09/2024 10:50 AM

Health insurance is very important for all people so amending and suplementing law on health insurance to ensure the best benefits for the beneficiaries. The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee continued its 37th working session on September 25, focusing on contributing comments to the draft Law on supplementing and amending some articles of the Law on Health Insurance. Deputy NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Thanh chaired the session.

26/09/2024 09:14 AM

The health care and protection for people constitute an important task and top priority of the Vietnamese State. Resolution 20-NQ/TW of October 25, 2017 of the 6th Plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee on “ Enhancing the protection, care and improvement of people’s health in the new situation” (Resolution 20-NQ/TW) has affirmed the goal of constantly heightening Vietnamese people’s health, stature, life span and living quality; ensuring that every citizen is entitled to health protection and care; to be equal in rights and obligations in participating in and benefiting from the health insurance and related services. With the efforts of the entire political system and the health sector as the core, the protection, care and improvement of the people’s health have obtained great results, thus greatly contributing to the national development.