26/09/2024 03:30 PM

You can start receiving your retirement benefits as early as regulated age. However, you are entitled to full benefits only when you reach your full retirement age.

10/09/2024 09:55 AM

About one-third of people who develop tuberculosis (TB) globally are not reached by current health services or systems. In Vietnam, Social Health Insurance is a crucial policy to increase access to health services and reduce catastrophic costs caused by diseased burdens, to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Community members' active participation plays a significant role in bridging the gap for those facing difficulties in accessing social health insurance (SHI) services, helping to avoid the poverty trap caused by illness.

12/09/2024 10:30 AM

Under WHO, community-based health insurance (CBHI) is a form of micro health insurance, which is an overarching term for health insurance targeted to low-income people. The specific feature of CBHIs is the community involvement in driving its setup and in its management.

02/09/2024 09:30 AM

Under WHO, Social Health Insurance (SHI) is a form of financing and managing health care based on risk pooling. SHI pools both the health risks of the people on one hand, and the contributions of individuals, households, enterprises, and the government on the other. Thus, it protects people against financial and health burden and is a relatively fair method of financing health care. Desirable though it is, not many least-developed and low-middle-income countries have succeeded in adequately expanding coverage of SHI. Most countries rely primarily on tax-funded finance, which is also relatively fair.

24/09/2024 01:50 PM

VSS has made numerous proposals for the revised health insurance law to ensure the rights and interests of health insurance participants and address the shortcomings and obstacles of current regulations.

16/09/2024 02:55 PM

Labor export is considered one of the foreign economic activities which brings great benefits to socio-economic development in Vietnam.

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.

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​.