1. What is comprehensive home health care?

Comprehensive home health care is a medical service with many outstanding advantages. Accordingly, instead of going directly to medical facilities for examination, with just a few simple steps, medical staff will be present at your home and carry out the health care process.

By bringing healthcare services to people's homes, this model helps solve the following problems:

• Busy with no time to take care of health: Modern life is full of work pressure, making many people have no time to take care of their health and that of their family members. By using home health care services, you can proactively perform health check-ups at any time;
• Limited mobility: For the elderly and disabled with limited mobility, going directly to a medical facility is a major obstacle. Therefore, home medical examination and treatment services can solve this problem well;
• People who need continuous health monitoring: For people with chronic diseases, pregnant women who need to monitor health indicators regularly and continuously, going directly to the hospital/clinic causes many limitations. Let home health services help you solve this situation;
• The need for disease prevention and screening: As society develops, the need for disease prevention among people increases. By monitoring health comprehensively and closely, home health services can play a good role in health education and advice on prevention and early screening of dangerous diseases.

2. Comprehensive home health care solution called family doctor service

Currently, comprehensive home health care is implemented by many medical units through the family doctor model, including the Vietnam Health System. Accordingly, the family doctor model provides a variety of home health care services, including:

2.1. Create a health record

• Family visit: Conduct comprehensive health assessment, collect health history information; comprehensive geriatric assessment (elderly); assess family function; establish family tree; assess living environment and society; assess family kitchen, provide nutrition consultation; assess home safety...;
• Examination, supplementary health information: perform tests, diagnostic imaging, functional examination, specialized examination... to complete health records at the clinic;
• Complete continuous health management records, consult test results with family doctor;
• Compile and send quarterly health information.

2.2. Health management

• Health management plan: chronic disease examination and management plan; periodic medical examination plan; proactive health improvement plan (change diet, exercise appropriately); disease prevention and screening plan (cancer, chronic disease); vaccination plan; monitoring and re-examination plan after acute illness; continuous health management plan updates and adjustments; reminders (calls, text messages, notifications via app) to proactively implement health management plans (periodic health check-up schedule, disease screening schedule, vaccination schedule, re-examination schedule, etc.);
• Consulting and supporting health issues via family doctor hotline;
• Nutritional consultation: Nutritional consultation during check-ups, nutrition management planning appropriate to the health status and wishes of individuals and families, guidance on creating a menu suitable to the eating habits of each individual and family;
• Health education consultation: Consultation on information and knowledge about diseases; consultation on disease prevention knowledge (chronic diseases, cancer, infectious diseases, etc.); consultation on knowledge of management and prevention of complications of chronic diseases; consultation on physical exercise.

If you are a foreigner who needs to use medical services while traveling in Vietnam, your medical benefits will be supported as Vietnamese citizens. To ensure your medical benefits are best guaranteed, you should go with an interpreter to exchange and receive information fully and effectively.

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