Health and social determinants of health in Vietnam: local evidence and international implications

Uneven stigma loads: Community interpretations of public health policies, ‘evidence’ and inequities in shaping Covid-19 stigma in Vietnam

“…Economic reform in 1986 is credited with improving the general health of the population. Over the subsequent decades, public healthcare has become increasingly fragile with the growing reliance on a system of user fees, which is considered to have contributed to intensifying health inequality between groups ( Van Minh & Nguyen-Viet, 2017 ). However, Vietnam was lauded as a national success story for the effective deployment of public health strategies to contain the disease within the first year of the pandemic ( Nguyen Thi Yen et al, 2021 ; T. P. T. Tran, Le, Nguyen, & Hoang, n.d. 9 epidemiological trajectory in the first year provides an exceptional case study through which to examine the factors shaping the emergence and dynamism of stigma.…”