scholarly journals Financial Autonomy in Vietnamese Public Health Service Units: A Study in Ho Chi Minh City

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Nguyễn Trọng cơ ◽  
Ngô Thanh Hoàng

In the renovation of the public non-business sector, the financial renovation is a particularly important content, which is a key condition for autonomous non-business units to improve the quality of public services as well as the efficiency of state budget spending. Renovating the financial mechanism of public non-business units has been identified as one of the breakthroughs of the Vietnam Finance Strategy until 2020 [Prime Minister, (2012)]. Implementing the financial autonomy mechanism has created the initiative for non-business units to manage financial expenditures effectively and mobilize the contribution of society for the development of non-business activities. In this process, public healthcare has been and will be an area focused in Vietnam and most provinces of Vietnam, including Ho Chi Minh City. Base on the theoretical framework for the autonomy mechanism, this article focuses on analyzing the actual situation of implementing the financial autonomy mechanism of the public health service units in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for the period 2012-2018. Since then, it indicates the achieved results, limitations, causes, and some recommendations to promote the implementation of the financial autonomy mechanism of public health service units in the context of world economic integration.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-528
Author(s):  
Charles J. A. Schulte

ON JANUARY 1, 1967, the Cancer Control Program will become part of the National Center for Chronic Disease Control within the Public Health Service's new Bureau of Disease Prevention and Environmental Control. Our primary mission is to stimulate and encourage the application of currently available techniques of cancer prevention, cancer detection, and cancer control to the community at the grass roots level. If this will be the case after the reorganization remains to be seen. Figure 1 shows the new organization of the Public Health Service. By way of illustration, I think it would be well to briefly outline a few of our activities. An area of heavy emphasis has been the use of the Papanicolaou smears for cervical cancer control. These programs have been responsible for developing certified cytotechnology training schools, supporting and training large numbers of cytotechnicians. In addition, we are supporting some 90 hospital-based cervical cancer screening projects across the country. A program to encourage the general practitioner to screen his private patients in the office is jointly sponsored by the American Academy of General Practice and the Cancer Control Program. The very grave problem in the United States of smoking and carcinoma of the lung is the major responsibility of tile National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health, a part of the Division of Chronic Diseases which developed out of the Cancer Control Program. We are engaged in a number of developmental projects, such as the flexible fiber optic proctosigmoidoscope. We hope to be able to produce a proctosigmoidoscope that will reach the splenic flexure.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-693
Author(s):  
STARKEY D. DAVIS ◽  
RALPH J. WEDGWOOD

Dr. Yerushalmy points out the excess mortality in the isoniazid pupulation in two trials: contacts of new cases and patients in mental hospitals. He failed to mention that the Public Health Service has conducted five other isoniazid prophylaxis trials (Table I). In the six trials listed, excluding the one in institutions, the isoniazid groups had more deaths in three trials, the placebo group had more deaths in two trials, and in one trial the number of deaths in each group was equal.


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