| THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---------- |
| No: 255/2006/QD-TTg | Hanoi, November 09, 2006 |
DECISION
APPROVING THE VIETNAM NATIONAL STRATEGY ON PREVENTIVE MEDICINE TO 2010 AND ORIENTATIONS TOWARDS 2020
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the June 30, 1989 Law on Protection of the People's Health;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 49/2003/ND-CP of May 15, 2003, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Health;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the Vietnam national strategy on preventive medicine to 2010 and orientations towards 2020 with the following principal contents:
1. Viewpoints:
a/ Active and proactive preventive medicine is the central task to ensure equity and efficiency in the cause of protection, care and improvement of the people's health.
b/ Preventive medicine must be comprehensive and have focuses with priority given to the prevention and combat of contagious diseases which may cause dangerous epidemics, especially the newly arising ones, HIV/AIDS and child malnutrition; prevention and combat of injuries and occupational diseases. It is also necessary to prevent and combat non-contagious diseases and diseases caused by unhealthful lifestyles.
c/ The State shall assure main financial sources for preventive medicine in order to promote the country's sustainable development and bring about socio-economic benefits.
d/ Preventive medicine is the responsibility of administrations at all levels, of ministries, branches, mass organizations, political organizations, socio-political organizations and every citizen. To boost the socialization of preventive medicine with the healthcare sector playing the key role in professional and technical aspects.
e/ To enhance and expand international cooperation on preventive medicine.
2. Objectives of the Vietnam national strategy on preventive medicine to 2010
a/ General objectives
To reduce risk factors affecting community health; to early detect and promptly control epidemics, preventing the widespread occurrence of epidemics; to reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of diseases; to contribute to improving physical and mental strengths, increasing life expectancy, improving the quality of life and our race.
b/ Specific objectives
- To change awareness and raise the sense of responsibility for disease prevention and health protection of Party Committees and administrations at all levels, mass organizations, community and every citizen.
- To limit and proceed to eliminating all risk factors related to contagious diseases.
- To reduce by 10% annually the morbidity and mortality rates of contagious diseases as compared to the average rates of the 2001-2005 period. To prevent major epidemics; to firmly maintain the outcomes of the elimination of poliomyelitis and the eradication of neonatal tetanus, reducing the morbidity rate of these diseases to 0.04/100,000 people. To strive to eliminate measles and diphtheria, reducing the morbidity rate of these diseases to 0.1/100,000 people; to reduce the morbidity rate of whooping cough to 0.05/100,000 people.
- To take the initiative in coping with and controlling new dangerous epidemics; to keep the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate at under 0.3% of the population and gradually reduce the number of newly infected persons among the population.
- To limit and proceed to controlling risk factors related to nutrition, health, environment, school diseases, occupational diseases, injuries, non-contagious diseases and diseases caused by unhealthful behaviors or lifestyles.
3. Orientations towards 2020
a/ To continue carrying out activities in order to control and eliminate, then proceed to eradicating current contagious diseases which may cause epidemics such as digestive diseases (cholera, dysentery, typhoid, helminthiasis ...); insect-borne diseases (petechial fever, malaria, Japanese encephalitis...); and rabies. At the same time, to apply active measures to effectively prevent dangerous epidemics and newly arising diseases (HIV/AIDS, SARS, avian influenza (H5N1)...); to get ready and take the initiative in coping with the threat of biological and chemical terrorism.
b/ To firmly maintain the outcomes of the elimination of poliomyelitis and the eradication of neonatal tetanus. To further promote activities of the expanded vaccination program in order to eradicate and eliminate common contagious childhood diseases such as measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, Japanese encephalitis, viral hepatitis... while expanding the use of vaccines to prevent other diseases.
c/ To take the initiative in preventing and combating non-contagious diseases and diseases related to the environment, occupations, school, nutrition, harmful lifestyles, accidents and injuries.
d/ To strengthen the preventive medicine network towards modernization. To set up and consolidate provincial and district preventive medicine centers.
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