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Maternal social capital and child health in Vietnam

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This study found low levels of structural social capital (associational life) and citizenship and high levels of cognitive social capital (trust, etc) and support. While poorer women have even lower levels of structural social capital than their better-off peers, patterns across rural and urban areas are similar.

Lessons from the field: From research evidence to policy: mental health care in Vietnam

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This case study from Vietnam illustrates how evidence can be used to influence policy. We summarize evidence on the burden of mental illness in Vietnam and describe attempts to influence policy makers.

Final Project Evaluation safe motherhood initiative project VIE/03/P21 (2003-2005)

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Safe motherhood initiative project: Final Project Evaluation

Author : TTT.Ha, TD.Dung, TTT.Huong, NTT.Trang, T.Tuan

Year : 2006

Area : Maternal & Child Health

Under the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy (RNE), the Ministry of Health Vietnam (MOH) developed the National Plan on Safe Motherhood that was approved by the Minister of Health on November 5, 2003. The National Plan on Safe Motherhood (SMNP) consists of two phases of implementation. Phase I of the National Plan (2003-2005) aims […]

Psychometric and cognitive validation of a social capital measurement tool in Peru and Vietnam

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Social capital is a relatively new concept which has attracted significant attention in recent years . No consensus has yet been reached on how to measure social capital, resulting in a large number of different tools available. While psychometric validation methods such as factor analysis have been used by few studies to access the internal validity of some tools, these techniques rely on data already collected by therefore not capable of eliciting what the questions are actually measuring