(VOVworld) - National Assembly deputies said social healthcare coverage must cater for workers with labor contracts lasting for under 3 months. They said this will prevent employers from avoiding insurance policies for their workers by structuring contract terms. Others recommend optional insurance policy for short-term employees due to low income paid to newly recruited workers. Deputies also supported the State subsidies of 10% for social insurance cost for part-time staff working in communal government agencies. They said this will attract more young people participate in local community activities. … [Read more...] about National Assembly deputies call for wider social healthcare coverage
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Vietnam targets 95% coverage of universal social health insurance by 2025
Updated at Tuesday, 19 Dec 2017, 19:19 The Hanoitimes - Vietnam enshrined universal social health insurance (SHI) coverage in its 2013 Constitution. Vietnam targets 95% coverage of universal social health insurance by 2025. The National Health Strategy 2011–2020 also gives prominence to renovating primary care to achieve national health goals, and in 2016 the Prime Minister issued a master plan for developing the grassroots health system. As such, family medicine principles are being introduced to strengthen primary care, particularly at commune health stations (CHSs), to respond to rapid population aging and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Vietnam enshrined universal social health insurance (SHI) coverage in its 2013 Constitution. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has a comprehensive human resource development plan for 2012–2020. Recent efforts have focused on strengthening pre-service training and developing competency-based curricula for doctors and nurses, … [Read more...] about Vietnam targets 95% coverage of universal social health insurance by 2025
Social insurance coverage remains low despite favorable policy
Social insurance coverage remains low despite favorable policy Truc Diem HANOI - Although Vietnam’s social insurance policy is considered among the most generous in the world, the coverage of social insurance has reached only 24%, experts said at an international conference on social insurance in Hanoi on March 29. Doan Mau Diep, Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, noted the Government had set a target of having half of the nation’s labor force covered by social insurance by 2020. However, this rate reached only 23.9% by end-2016. Although many measures have been taken, the socially insured has remained very low in recent years. In addition to the slow growth of social insurance penetration, the social insurance fund is at risk of imbalance in the long term. According to Pham Truong Giang, head of the Social Insurance Department under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the early retirement age of Vietnam (60 for men and 55 for women) … [Read more...] about Social insurance coverage remains low despite favorable policy
51% of Vietnamese adults have credit registry coverage
Only 51 per cent of Vietnamese adults have credit registry coverage, much lower than the approximate 100 per cent in developed countries. Le Anh Tuan, director of the Credit Information Centre (CIC)’s Research and Development Division under the State Bank of Viet Nam, said it meant up to 49 per cent of local adults did not have access to credit. According to Tuan, CIC, so far, has credit information of more than 34 million borrowers, of which 33.4 million are individual customers. The number has increased from the 31.5 million in January 2017. CIC’s credit information database is currently mainly based on data from credit institutions. It means that only customers who have had credit ties with credit institutions have credit ratings at CIC, and credit institutions followed CIC’s ratings to decide their lending. Experts suggested that CIC could use information from other industries instead of only data from credit institutions to have more people access credit. This … [Read more...] about 51% of Vietnamese adults have credit registry coverage
Olympic London 2012: Broadcasting in Live 3D Coverage
(Cinet)- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Worldwide TOP Partner Panasonic will provide equipment and technology to enable the first ever live 3D coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games. According to Takumi Kajisha, Chief Executive of Panasonic, “with the assistance of the 3D technologies provided by the team at Panasonic, we believe the production of the first live 3D Olympic Games will contribute toward making the 2012 London Olympic Games one of the most significant in the history of broadcasting technology.” Panasonic futher stated that they agreed with Olympic Broadcasting Services(OBS) and Worldwide TOP Partner Panasonic partners to finalize the sports which will be covered and establish the amount of live 3D coverage which will be made available. “We are now proud to announce this partnership to realize the first ever 3D live Olympic Games, and we are confident that this unprecedented coverage will be achieved in no small part due … [Read more...] about Olympic London 2012: Broadcasting in Live 3D Coverage