borne out in an analysis of the incidence of government health spending in Vietnam (a country where fees are more pro …

This paper exploits the staggered rollout of Vietnam's hospital autonomization policy to estimate its impacts on … authors use six years of panel data covering all Vietnam's public hospitals, and three stacked cross-sections of household …

. The current paper contributes to this limited knowledge by evaluating the impact of a shift by Vietnam's social health …-section data sets from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to estimate impacts on efficiency, quality, and equity. The …

Vietnam's provinces. Aid is not apparently fungible between Vietnam's health sector and other sectors, but is fungible across …

Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor (HCFP) uses government revenues to finance health care for the poor, ethnic …

Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and medical care spending responds to health shocks, and (2) how far … the medical care costs associated with health shocks, and is consistent with the very generous coverage of Vietnam …

and Vietnam over a period when both countries grew spectacularly as they transitioned from planned to market economies … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …

By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam—a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …