Situation of preventive health professionals working at northern mountainous provinces in Viet Nam
- Author:
Hoang Khai Lap
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
preventive medicine
- MeSH:
Preventive Medicine;
Health, Preventive Health Services;
Medical Staff
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2005;15(5):156-160
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
An observational study conducted at 10 Northern mountainous provinces revealed that most of these provinces lacked health workers working in preventive medicine compared with criteria of Ministry of Health. Qualification of the current health workers was still limited: most of them did not have college degrees, some of them graduated from college, particularly. Few staffs had post-graduated level. The preferred fields for training preventive health staff of these provinces mainly are epidemiology, public health, nutrition and food safety, and environmental health. The preferred degrees include professional I, professional II and master degrees but not for PhD degree. It is that the priority should be for training and upgrading health workers to college level, and plans for more staffs in preventive medicine field, with more emphasis on training them for college and post- graduated.
