Vietnam

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission has been considered as not a simple intervention but a comprehensive set of interventions requiring capable health workers. Viet Nam’s extensive health care system reaches the village level, but still HIV-infected mothers and children have received inadequate health care services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission. We report here the health workers’ perceptions on factors that lead to their failure to give good quality prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. [from abstract]

An estimated four million deaths occur annually among children in the neonatal period. Current evidence-based interventions could prevent a large proportion of these deaths; however, neonatal health care workers need to have knowledge regarding such practices before being able to put them into action. This survey assesses the knowledge of primary health care practitioners regarding basic, evidence-based procedures in neonatal care in a Vietnamese province and investigates whether differences in level of knowledge were linked to certain characteristics of community health centers.

This website contains brief country reports on HRH development activities in 2008 from nations belonging to the Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on HRH.

As part of the process to develop more community-oriented medical teaching in Vietnam, eight medical schools prepared a set of standard learning objectives with attention to the needs of a doctor working with the community. Because they were prepared based on government documents and the opinions of the teachers, it was necessary to check them with doctors who had already graduated and were working at different sites in the community. [abstract]

This presentation was part of the International Conference on Global Health session, “Innovations in Human Resources: Strategies to Address the Health-Care Workers Shortage.” It outlines the reproductive medical education project in Vietnam that aims to improve the quality of RH care through pre-service teaching in medical schools.

The main purpose of the report was to review the current situation on human resource for health and the mobilization of medical doctors to work at commune level in Vietnam…Although Vietnam has established an extensive network and plentiful supply of health personnel, the distribution of health workers is significantly imbalanced, especially at the commune level. In order to improve accessibility and quality of health care for population especially for the poor, the appropriate policies are needed to motivate health worker, especially medical doctors to work at commune level. [abstract]

To provide good quality health care services, it is important to develop strategies influencing staff motivation for better performance. An exploratory qualitative research was carried out among health workers in two provinces in North Viet Nam so as to identify entry points for developing strategies that improve staff performance in rural areas. [from abstract]

This study investigated the uses of demographic census data for monitoring geographical imbalance in the health workforce for three developing countries, as a basis for formulation of evidence-based health policy options. [from abstract]