1. Full name: Hoang Thi Le Thao                                               2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: 31/5/1984                                              4. Place of birth: Hanoi

5. Admission decision number 2999/2013/QĐ-XHNV-SĐH, signed by Rector of VNU University of Social sciences and humanities (Hanoi), dated 30/12/2013.

6. Changes in academic process

- Admission decision number 3257/QĐ-XHNV dated 21/12/2015 to change the doctoral thesis title and to add the second supervisor.

- Admission decision number 4691/QĐ-XHNV dated 29/12/2016 to prolonged the course time.

- Admission decision number 822/QĐ-XHNV dated 19/4/2021 to readjust the doctoral thesis title.

7. Official thesis title:

Reproductive healthcare of the Tay and Nung ethnic women in Van Quan district, Lang Son province laboring cross-border Vietnam and China.

8. Major: Ethnology                                           9. Code: 62.31.03.10 

10. Supervisors: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Lam Ba Nam, Assoc.Prof, Dr. Vuong Xuan Tinh

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis

The dissertation approaches the study issue from the perspective of cultural explanation and cultural ecology in Medical Anthropology and based on the analytical framework of Migration - Health to analyze the reproductive health care of women. Tay and Nung in Van Quan district working across the Vietnam-China border. Accordingly, health and healthcare issues are viewed from a socio-cultural perspective, placed in the pluralistic health system and in a cross-border context.

Not only when living in the border, but in the process of working across borders, female workers also have problems and need for reproductive health care. However, they face many limitations stemming from working and living conditions, as well as barriers in psychology, language and legal status. The reproductive health network of women working in China has structural gaps that make them dependent on Chinese brokers or owners.

Reproductive health care of women working across the Vietnam - China border has not received attention to receive support (special policy) from the authorities as well as unions and organizations.

12. Practical applicability

Research on reproductive health care of Tay and Nung ethnic women laboring across the Vietnam-China border has practical significance for the development of policies to strengthen the reproductive health care of female migrants, contributing to ensuring social security in Lang Son province as well as in the northern mountainous region, towards socio-economic development goals by region and the country in general.

13. Further research directions:

Social security in border land, migrant labors: policies and health issue.

14. Thesis-related publications:

1. Hoang Thi Le Thao (2015), “The folk healing method of the Tay people in Po Cai village, Gia Cat commune, Cao Loc district, Lang Son province”, Anthropology Journal (4&5), pp. 102-111.

2. Hoang Thi Le Thao (2017), "Access to reproductive health care services of ethnic minority women labouring across borders in Van Quan district, Lang Son province", Proceedings of the scientific conference national "Some issues about ethnicity and ethnicity in the border and cross-border areas of Vietnam today", Institute of Anthropology, Social Science Publishing House, Hanoi, pp. 810-818.

3. Hoang Thi Le Thao (2019), “The status and issues of reproductive healthcare of ethnic minority women participating in cross-border labor activities between Vietnam and China: a study in Van Quan district, Lang Son province", Proceedings of the national scientific conference "Challenges and solutions for ethnic minority women not to be left behind", Vietnam Women's Union, National University Publishing House, Hanoi, pp. 267-277.

4. Hoang Thi Le Thao (2019), "Cross-border free labor of ethnic minority women: a study in Van Quan district, Lang Son province", Anthropology Journal (6), pp. 60-67.

5. Hoang Thi Le Thao (2020), "Social network in reproductive health care: A case study of Tay and Nung ethnic women in Van Quan district, Lang Son province", Anthropology Journal (6), pp. 76-86.