The strategy of people’s health care and protection for the period 2011-2020, with vision to 2030

1. The strategy of people’s health care and protection for the period 2011-2020, with vision to 2030 Department of Planning and Finance, MoH

2. The strategy framework Part 1. Assessment on the strategy for the period of 2001-2010 (According to the Strategy issued under Decision 35 by the PM and health system framework) Part 2. The strategy for the period of 2011-2020, vision to 2030 1. Factors forecasted to affect health: • Disease status quo and models • Population • Economy • Natural environment • Social environment

3. 2. Viewpoint of direction • Health is human’s most precious property. • Investing into health is investing into socio-economic development of the country. • Building Vietnam health system towards Equity-Efficiency-Development-Quality. 3. Objectives Accelerating the modernization process of health sector; developing health service to the level of equal standardization with other countries in the region; ensuring that every citizen has equal access to quality health service; reducing disease contracted and death toll related to diseases rate; preventing pandemic; improving health, extending longevity and enhancing life quality.

4. 4. Some major indicators

5. Input Process Output and objectives Human resource Socio-economic dev. Finance Service supply Cover all areas Equity, Quality, Efficiency Health condition Information system Pharmacy, Technology Social equity Leadership and management Vietnam health system framework

6. 5. Major strategic orientation Service supply • Consolidating and finalizingthe organizational structure of the health sector from central to local level; combining governmental health and private health. • Developing the grass-root health network (district, commune, village level), to ensure that all citizens have equal access to quality health service. • Focusing on preventive medicine, well implement National Health Target Programs (NHTP) in order to handle important community health problems (including food safety) • Developing treatment network of all lines, improving service quality, developing both public and specialized treatment service. • Preparing to effectively respond to risks, challenges and factors influencing health (aging population, fluctuation of disease models and death toll, living style, climate change, etc) • Maintaining replacing birth rate, improving population quality, reducing imbalance of gender at birth.

7. Health Human Resource • Developing the HR for health with appropriate number, structure and distribution; improving HR quality; strengthening HR management and effective usage. Health Finance • Increasing national budget for health • Fully developing health insurance over population. • Controlling health expenses, reducing OOP and personal spending in health. • Supporting the poor and nearly poor, children under 6 years old, ethnic minority, policy objects. • Reforming national budget allocation for health facilities (along actitivity result) • Reforming operational and financial mechanism to improve financial managing effect. • Putting food safety in priority. • Reforming hospital finance (cases, groups of patients, rate…)

8. Health Information • Improving information quality (indicators, index, reports, analysis, etc); boosting the dissemination and usage of health information; step by step modernizing health information system Pharmacy • Developing the pharmacy industry at national level. • Managing medicine quality. • Using medicine safely and appropriately. • Managing medicine price. Health equipments and facilities • Boosting the production of national health equipments. • Providing suitable equipments for the functions, responsibilities and needs of each line. • Effectively managing and using health equipments. • Testing, maintaining, repairing equipments to ensure their quality.

9. Management • Enhancing health policy and strategy planning capacity and quality. • Well organizing the implementation of health fundamental policies. • Accelerating tracking, monitoring, examining, assessing health plans. • Improving health planning and implementing capacity in all lines.

10. Workplan