Living Standards Survey Health Data
From: Alexander Soucy <alec.soucy@smu.ca>
Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:39 AM
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I have an MA student working on access to health care in Vietnam. She found
reference to data on "problems with local health care providers by
expenditure quintile" from the 1992-93 and 1997-98 VLSS, including data on
lack of facilities, lack of medication and cleanliness. However, when she
tries to find more current information from the 2004 Living Standards
Survey, as reported on the website of the General Statistics Office of
Vietnam (http://www.gso.gov.vn), there does not appear to be any
corresponding data.
Does anyone know if it is because that issue is no longer included in the
survey, or because it is just not on the website? Are there any suggestions
of where she might find this information?
Best,
Alec Soucy
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Canada
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From: Nghiem Kim Hoa <nghiemhoa@gmail.com>
Date: 2008/11/14
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Alec,
Your student may want to look at the National Health Survey instead of VLSS. Hanoi School of Public Health can be a good source too. (Dean Le Vu Anh at lva@hsph.edu.vn)
Regards,
Hoa
Hoa Nghiem
MA Student,
The Heller school for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA