Promoting the role of women in disseminating social insurance and health insurance policies
Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies aim at the common goal of ensuring long-term and stable security for people. At the same time, it supports and shares risks in the face of life changes such as illness, accidents, retirement age, etc. Participation in Social Insurance and Health Insurance demonstrates the high sense of responsibility of each individual to themselves, their families and the community. For women, participation in Social Insurance and Health Insurance helps women enjoy more fully social benefits, ensures a stable life for them and promotes the development of gender equality.
Strengthening coordination
Thanks to the active participation of Party committees, authorities, associations and unions in the province in propaganda work, mobilizing people to participate.Voluntary social insurance, Health insurance. Up to now, the health insurance coverage rate in the province has reached over 93%. Nghe An province is one of the leading localities in the country in terms of the number of people participating in voluntary social insurance. In that general achievement, there is a positive contribution from women's associations at all levels in the province.
Determining that bringing Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies to female members is a practical action to take care of their health and ensure long-term security.
In recent times, the Provincial Social Insurance and the Nghe An Provincial Women's Union have coordinated to implement many specific programs and plans. In particular, focusing on coordinating the organization of communication conferences, integrating propaganda on Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies into training sessions, thematic activities, activities of women's branches and women's clubs.
With the theme: "Voluntary social insurance, save when young - be happy and healthy when old", "Health insurance - for the health of yourself, your family and the community", the propaganda sessions have contributed to raising awareness for cadres, members and women about the role, meaning, responsibility and benefits of participating in Social Insurance and Health Insurance. In particular, the Provincial Women's Union has included the target of "85% of members of the Standing Committee of the grassroots Women's Union participating in voluntary social insurance" in the content of the Resolution of the 16th Provincial Women's Congress for the 2021 - 2026 term. To date, 13 units have exceeded 85%, with 8 units achieving 100% of members of the Standing Committee of the grassroots Women's Union participating in voluntary social insurance.
In addition, the Women's Union also actively cooperates with the Social Insurance agency in other communication activities such as: posting news and propaganda articles about Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies on the Electronic Information Portal, Fanpage, internal newsletter, official social networking sites of the Women's Union at the provincial and district levels. Propagating and mobilizing members and women to participate in a number of activities organized by the Social Insurance such as: Launching Ceremony, Launching Ceremony...
Along with promoting communication work, many levels of women's associations have maintained and expanded models such as: "Women save to participate in voluntary social insurance", "Turning trash into health insurance cards", "No family of women members does not have a health insurance card", "Green savings" ... have been and are making an important contribution to bringing social insurance and health insurance policies to the majority of people, including women, helping them access and enjoy the social security regimes of the Party and the State.
In the first 9 months of 2024, women's associations at all levels coordinated with the Social Insurance agency to organize 604 conferences to disseminate and train on Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies with over 55,000 participants and mobilized nearly 4,500 people to participate in voluntary Social Insurance and 46,500 people to participate in Health Insurance through the association's channels. Continue to maintain and expand models to raise funds and have donated 5 voluntary Social Insurance books and nearly 700 cards.Health insurancefor members in difficult circumstances.
Bringing practical benefits to women
As one of the grassroots women's associations that has effectively implemented the propaganda work on Social Insurance and Health Insurance, Ms. Ngo Thi Thanh Xuan - President of the Nghi Loc District Women's Union said: Right from the beginning of the year, the District Women's Union has signed a cooperation program with the District Social Insurance, on that basis, promoting the implementation of communication forms to all women's associations in the whole district. The communication content focuses on clearly stating the benefits of participating in Social Insurance and Health Insurance both in the short and long term. Thereby, mobilizing women members, especially members in rural areas and disadvantaged educational areas, to actively participate in Social Insurance and Health Insurance to have the right to medical examination and treatment when sick, pregnant, and have a pension to stabilize and take initiative in life when they reach retirement age.
As a result, in 2023 alone, the District Women's Union coordinated with the District Social Insurance to organize 5 propaganda sessions on Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies; Directed and guided grassroots women's unions to coordinate with the District Social Insurance to organize 55 communication conferences and training conferences, attracting 6,600 cadres and members to participate. Up to now, the number of members participating in Social Insurance through the organization is 720 cases and Health Insurance is 7,579 cases. From the models of "Turning scrap into useful products", "Green house", "Women helping each other buy Health Insurance cards", the Women's Unions of communes have presented 72 Health Insurance cards to members in difficult circumstances with a total amount of nearly 50 million VND.
Or in Hoang Mai town, the Women's Union at all levels has effectively maintained the model of "Turning waste into useful products" in 99/99 branches, the funds from this model were used by the women to buy 116 health insurance cards to give to members and women in difficult circumstances. In the mountainous district of Tuong Duong, in addition to promoting propaganda through conferences, through social networks such as Facebook, Zalo, ... the District Women's Union has coordinated with the District Social Insurance to organize 40 training sessions, attracting more than 3,757 women to attend. In addition, the District Women's Union continues to maintain the model of "Turning plastic waste into social insurance books" in the communes of Tam Quang, Yen Na, Yen Tinh, and Luu Kien.
Women's Unions at all levels in the province have contributed to the entire political system of the province in bringing the Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies into life. To increase the rate of people participating in Social Insurance and Health Insurance in the province in general and with members and women in particular, according to Ms. Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa - President of the Women's Union of Nghe An province: The Women's Union of the province will continue to closely coordinate with the provincial Social Insurance agency according to the Coordination Regulations between the two sides. In particular, continue to further promote the propaganda of Social Insurance and Health Insurance policies to members and women in the province. In addition to direct communication activities, in the coming time, the association at all levels will promote the effectiveness of indirect communication activities such as propaganda through loudspeaker systems, through communication products provided by the Social Insurance agency, taking advantage of social networking sites to propagate policies, etc. At the same time, continue to maintain activities and replicate models suitable to the practical situation of the locality to support giving health insurance cards to women and students in difficult circumstances.
In 2023, all levelswomen's union has maintained effective operation of 116 Social Insurance and Health Insurance collection points. Number of people participating in Social Insurance and Health Insurance Through the association's channel, there are nearly 560,000 people, the number of members and women participating in Health Insurance through the association's channel is 149,652 people.
