The situation of the combination between Army medical service and Civil medical service on Reproductive health care at Long Xuyên quadrangle

ABSTRACT

A study on 3472 subjects including service provider, state officials, militants and women in border communes of An Giang and Ha Tien provinces showed that: 81.5% subjects believe that there is a combination between Army medical service and Civil medical service on Reproductive health-care, and some combinations achieved good results are Information-Education and Communication, providing services and organizing management. The combination is appreciated good in many forms: providing reproductive healthcare/family planning services (46.5%), Information-Education and Communication, (63.9%), training and retraining, … The combination between Army and Civil medical service is necessary to solve difficulties in these areas such as lack of equipment (69.7%) and public health infrastructure insufficient (51.4%)