Tasks to improve people's health in Vietnam

Tasks to improve people's health in Vietnam (Internet image) 

The Prime Minister issued Decision 89/QD-TTg in 2024, approving the National Strategy for Protecting, Caring for, and Improving People's Health for the period up to 2030 and the vision for 2045.

Tasks to improve people's health in Vietnam

- Enhance the implementation of the Vietnam Health Program; Raise awareness of hygiene and improve people's health; Develop a comprehensive plan to enhance the physical fitness and stature of Vietnamese people for the period 2021–2030; National strategy on tobacco control until 2030. Diversify content and innovate forms of communication and health education to raise awareness and responsibility among individuals in self-care, improve health, and prevent the harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and beer.

- Effectively implement the National Nutrition Strategy for the period 2021–2030 and the vision to 2045: a 1,000-day Care Nutrition Program. Ensure proper nutrition to improve the nutrition status suitable for each target group, locality, region, and ethnic group.

- Focus on improving the health of mothers, newborns, and young children, reducing the rate of disabled children, and prioritizing regions with ethnic minority communities, mountainous, border, island, and difficult areas to reduce disparities in health indicators, nutrition, maternal mortality, and child mortality between regions. Strive to achieve the goals of the Intervention Program to reduce under-5 child mortality by 2030.

- Strengthen state management capacity in food safety and unify the implementation of tasks to ensure food security and safety from the central to the local level. Build and improve technical standards for food safety. Implement food safety control based on risk assessment, production and business along the supply chain, and traceability of origin. Enhance capacity in food poisoning prevention and control and diseases transmitted through food.

- Implement long-term care, strengthen health care for workers, the elderly, and disabled people, prevent occupational diseases, accidents, and injuries in the community; enhance school health. Effectively implement the Program for Health Care and Improvement for Workers, Prevention of Occupational Diseases for the period 2020–2030, the School Health Program for the period 2021–2025, and health care in preschool and primary education institutions linked to basic healthcare for the period 2021–2025 and subsequent years.

- Prevent adverse effects of climate change, environmental pollution, chemicals, and hazardous waste on human health. Enhance communication to raise awareness and change behavior to increase the proportion of households using clean water that meets national standards and having hygienic latrines and the proportion of medical waste being properly treated.

Health indicators of the National Strategy for Protecting, Caring for, and Improving People's Health.

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