background and objectives: public-private partnership (ppp) is a well-established model to alleviate the risk of investment in health domain. while the model is widely applied in the developed countries, the adoption of the model in many developing countries is hampered partly by the lack of knowledge on dimensions and requirements of its local implementation. the present study, thus, aimed to ...

BACKGROUND Cultural variations exist in the proportion of women who breastfeed. For some cultural groups, migration to a new country is associated with a reduction in the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. This paper describes the initial breastfeeding attitudes and practices of women born in Vietnam, Turkey and Australia who gave birth in Australia. METHODS The study included 300 wome...

This paper proposes a method to build a Vietnamese Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition system (Vietnamese LVCSR system). The difference between Vietnamese and European languages is analyzed and used to adapt a LVCSR system for European languages to Vietnamese. Experiments are implemented on the VNSPEECHCORPUS. The results show that the accuracy of Vietnamese recognition system is inc...

This paper proposes a method to build a Vietnamese Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition system (Vietnamese LVCSR system). The difference between Vietnamese and European languages is analyzed and used to adapt a LVCSR system for European languages to Vietnamese. Experiments are implemented on the VNSPEECHCORPUS. The results show that the accuracy of Vietnamese recognition system is inc...

INTRODUCTION Less developed countries, Vietnam included, face serious challenges of inefficient diagnosis, inaccessibility to healthcare facilities, and high medical expenses. Information on medical costs, technical and professional capabilities of healthcare providers and service deliveries becomes influential when it comes to patients' decision on choices of healthcare providers. METHODS Th...

a central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. in tax-funded european health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

The Vietnamese people have always given a high priority to education, especially higher education. Vietnam’s first university, Temple of Literature (Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam), was founded in 1070. Nowadays, the Vietnamese higher education system is diversified and multilevel. In the 2006-2007 academic year, it included 322 universities and colleges of which 47 were private. Of the 275 public ins...

The objective of this study was to assess the extent of diabetic control and its associated factors among Vietnamese patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The study was conducted among 652 outpatients who were recruited at a public general hospital (People Hospital 115) and a private clinic (Medic Center) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Median age of participants was 57 years from People Hospital...

In a “follow-up visit”, a patient seeks medical attention for an existing health problem. Using data from the Vietnamese public hospital system, we present a more nuanced analysis of follow-ups in health communication than the one currently available. To be specific, we discriminate between “same follow-ups”, in which the doctor is the same one as in the last visit, and “different follow-ups”, ...