16/04/2024 02:15 PM

In Vietnam, ensuring social protection is always regarded as regular mission of the State and the whole society. Viet Nam has a relatively well-developed, multi-pillar social protection system with social and health insurance, social assistance, and social care services. Social protection as a right of Vietnamese citizens is firmly embedded in the country’s legal fabric, and political will to strengthen its implementation appears to have increased in the past decade.

16/04/2024 01:15 PM

Health insurance in Germany is obligatory for all residents, including researchers and scientists coming from abroad to work here for the short or long term. Today’s system provides coverage for the entire population, along with a generous benefit package.

12/04/2024 10:30 AM

Gender equality is a fundamental human right. Advancing gender equality is critical to all areas of a healthy society, from reducing poverty to promoting the health, education, protection and the well-being of girls and boys. Established in July 2010, the UN Women is the UN entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women and Vietnam elected to UN Women’s Executive Board for 2025-2027.

08/04/2024 10:36 AM

Vietnam is an important partner of the UN including climate change response, energy transition, digital transformation, maintaining food supply chains, promoting education, and ensuring inclusive development, social justice and social security, among others.

08/04/2024 09:30 AM

a comprehensive social protection system should be designed with multiple layers, performing all four functions of the 4Ps, namely Promotion, Prevention, Provision and Protection. In case, a person falls off the upper layer, he will be supported by the lower layer. Viet Nam's social insurance network has many advantages, in terms of impact and flexibility.

04/04/2024 09:11 AM

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs estimates that approximately 4 million elderly people required daily care in 2019, and this number is expected to increase to about 10 million by 2030. The health insurance is an efficient solution for comprehensive health care for the elderly. Health insurance plays a pivotal role in ensuring that individuals have access to quality healthcare when needed.

02/04/2024 10:05 AM

The world is dealing with multiple, entangled crises caused by systemic risks, including climate change, zoonotic diseases political unrest and conflicts. Income inequality has been on the rise in many countries while unequal social opportunities and access to decent employment, quality education and health care or to productive assets, such as land and credit, continue to persist within and across countries. Creating productive employment and ensure social security for all is a proven pathway to reduce inequality in a sustained manner.

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)