Health and development
- Author:
Duong Quang Trung
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Health
- MeSH:
Health;
Chronic Disease
- From:Ho Chi Minh city Medical Association
2005;10(5):259-260
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Provide some remarks and results of associations between development and health protection in Vietnam. With the emerging of chronic diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, HIV/AIDS...), we have to organize a broadly health-care network, with treatment and prevention agencies. Training and educations for health workers should be directed toward commune health-care needs, combination of modern medicine and traditional medicine. Some achievements: almost people know how to read and write, average life expectancy was 67.8 years old, mortality rate of children under 1 year old was 36.7/1,000 person in the year 1999, 97% of people were protected by National Expand Immunization Program in the year 2000, natural population growth rate decreased from nearly 4% in the year 1975 to 1.4% in the year 2000. We have good and effective co-operation with many countries in the training and technical transfer to control disasters and epidemics
