Health insurance coverage among ethnic minority groups in 4 ecological regions in Vietnam

Abstract

Object: Research on basic and urgent solutions for ethnic minority health care in our country was conducted with 6962 people belonging to 11 ethnic minorities in 12 provinces in 4 ecological regions. The objective of the study is to describe health insurance coverage rates for the 11 ethnic groups. Research Methodology: Cross-sectional design, using face to face interview method with structured questionnaire. Results: The results show that the percentage of ethnic minorities with health insurance is 95.3%. However, there is still a certain percentage of ethnic minorities without insurance cards: the Dao, Mnong, and Cham ethnic groups with proportions of 7.4%, 14.3% and 14.5% respectively.

Recommendation: The social insurance agency needs to propagate more deeply and widely to ethnic minorities about the Law on Health Insurance, the importance of health insurance. Village heads need to be more responsible in capturing demographic information and delivering and receiving health insurance cards.