Received: 18-06-2014 / Accepted: 01-09-2014
The study was conducted to collect data from 550 farmers in Thai Binh provinceto identify the status of farmers’ voluntary health insurance (VHI). The results showed that farmers’ participation in VHIincreased in the recent years, but with slow growth rate. Most of farmers (about 92.18%) said that health insurance participation is ofnecessity.However, 7% to 31% of farmers didnot have the need to participate in VHI due to several reasonssuch as: (1) no habit of health examination (80%); (2) too complicated paper work (75%); (3) high health insurance fee (65%);andlow income (55%). Fourmain solutions were recommended to improve and attract farmers to participate in VHI.