Shaping healthcare development strategy in the coming period

Draft documents submitted to the 14th National Party Congress set out specific goals for 2030 and 2045, with expectations of a breakthrough in economic growth as well as in all areas of social life.

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In which, it is determined to build a fair, high-quality, effective and sustainable healthcare system to do a good job of taking care of people's health and integrating internationally.

New approaches to healthcare management

The Draft Political Report of the 13th Party Central Committee assessed that people's health care has made positive progress, with improved quality, good control of epidemics, and mastery of many advanced medical technologies and techniques... However, health care services still have many limitations, especially in primary health care and preventive medicine. The limitations of people's health care are pointed out as: The quality of health care services is not uniform among regions; financial mechanisms and hospital autonomy policies still have many problems; the overload situation at central hospitals still occurs; the medical staff, especially at the primary level and in difficult areas, is still lacking in both quantity and quality... These limitations are bottlenecks that need to be resolved soon so that the health sector can develop rapidly, sustainably and integrate deeply with the world.

Health experts point out that in the new development stage, the health system needs to perform well all three roles at the same time: Being a solid pillar of social security and human development; Being a reliable shield ensuring health security; Being a special service sector contributing to economic growth. The development of the health system needs to go hand in hand with the socio-economic development process. First of all, the health system must be developed in line with the general socio-economic development of the country with specific goals by 2030 and 2045. In addition to actively and effectively contributing to the socio-economic development process, the health system also needs to spread, helping people enjoy the fruits of economic growth through quality health care services characterized by basic, essential social services, bringing direct and easily recognizable benefits.

In order to develop effectively and sustainably in the future, in the context of many intertwined opportunities and challenges, the health system needs to identify, make good use of opportunities and effectively address the challenges of the external and internal environment that the health system is facing. In the new development stage, all basic components of the health system need to be innovated and continuously improved within a unified structural framework, ensuring effective interaction between these elements to optimize the desired overall impact.

The starting point has a decisive factor, which is to strongly innovate the management thinking of the health sector, it is necessary to convert the linear management thinking, experience-based management to management based on scientific evidence; improve transparency and accountability. Synchronously implement short-term as well as long-term solutions to resolve the situation. Along with inheriting the orientation of fairness, efficiency, quality and integration, the health system needs to gradually transform the model of a low-cost health system (with wide coverage, low cost but limited quality) to an effective health system model with reasonable cost (ensuring wide coverage, continuously improved quality with appropriate cost)...

Fundamental and long-term health development

In the context of a world full of uncertainties, when emerging diseases, population aging and climate change simultaneously challenge the capacity of all health systems, Vietnam is choosing a fundamental and long-term development strategy. The draft documents submitted to the 14th National Congress clearly stated: Building a fair, high-quality, effective and sustainable health system; effectively implementing the national target program on health care, population and development...; all people have access to and use quality primary health care services and receive free health check-ups at least once a year.

The strong shift from a cure mindset to a prevention mindset, considering preventive medicine and primary health care as the foundation needs to be concretized with solutions so that each citizen can manage their health throughout their life cycle. That mindset is considered a national orientation, where health is maintained before treatment, and people are placed at the center of a comprehensive health ecosystem.

The strong shift from a cure mindset to a prevention mindset, considering preventive medicine and primary health care as the foundation needs to be concretized with solutions so that each citizen can manage their health throughout their life cycle. That mindset is considered a national orientation, where health is maintained before treatment, and people are placed at the center of a comprehensive health ecosystem.

The entire health sector as well as each unit needs to identify the application of science and technology and digital transformation as mandatory requirements; closely follow Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW to strongly promote comprehensive digital transformation of health... invest in the development of digital health technology, complete the electronic health records of the entire population, use electronic medical records, develop digital hospital models, digital doctors, build a health data platform and a national health data center. In particular, strongly apply artificial intelligence (AI), big data (Big Data) and the Internet of Things (IoT) in diagnosis, treatment, disease forecasting and personalized health care. These are the keys to paving the way for modern, humane and smart health, towards comprehensive and continuous health care.

The draft documents submitted to the 14th Congress and Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW define the goal of "free hospital fees" for the people. To do that, it is necessary to strongly reform the health financing mechanism to have resources to ensure health care for the people. And a humane, modern and sustainable health care system not only requires advanced technology, but first of all, it must have people, that is, doctors with heart, vision, and professional ethics. Therefore, there needs to be a breakthrough policy on training, fostering as well as rotation... to aim for the goal of all people receiving the best and fairest health care, right where they live.

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