title: Viet Nam: profit and loss in health care.
abstract: The decline of Viet Nam's once highly effective commune health stations has resulted in the over-prescription of drugs and the danger of lower public health standards. It must be recognized that private and public activities form part of the same health system, and need firm supervision if it is to flourish.
authors.affiliation: Haiphong Health, Financing Project, Save the Children Fund, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chalker
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014744:Vietnam