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)

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.

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.

27/03/2024 10:30 AM

Việt Nam will prioritise sending workers to potential markets to take safe, relevant jobs that bring high incomes.