2. Health Status
3. Disease Acquired Easily
4. Favorite Things
5. Dislike, Avoiding Things
6. Vietnam's Customs and
Manners
7. Life Style
8. Food Cultures
9. Religion
Name
- The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Capital
- Ha Noi
Climate
- subtropical(Northern), tropical(Southern)
Environment
- From May to January, there are season
typhoons that occur deluge
2. Health Status
1) Facilities
▶ Expanding city-centered hospitals and private medical institution
→ give medical services of high quality for the rich and foreigners.
▶ But, hospitals are almost unsanitary and lack of equipments
and most of hospitals organize by government expenditures.
2) Medicines
▶ separation of prescribing and dispensing drugs.
receiving prescription at hospital
getting medicines at pharmacy.
▶ Most of hospitals have their own pharmacy
in entrance or inside of hospital.
3) Medical insurance
▶ Person pay 20% of total medical payment in hospital.
▶ Medicines payment are insured 100%.
※ Despite these medical insurance existence,
53% of Vietnamese patients can't get medical treatment
because of economic burden.
The poor receive treatment
2.9 times a year (affording people receive 4.7 times).
source : the poor healthcare situation evaluation from 2000 to 2010

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