Population work key in socio-economic strategy
Population work plays an essential role
in Vietnam ’s national socio-economic development strategy, Health
Minister affirmed.
Population work plays an essential role
in Vietnam’s national socio-economic development strategy, Health
Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu has affirmed in writing to mark this year’s
World Population Day.
Accordingly, population and family planning work has become one of the pillars of socio-economic development plans for all sectors and localities and has gradually gained the entire society’s enthusiastic support, as well as pledges from party committees and authorities at all levels across the country.
The work has contributed to easing the pressure of population growth on socio-economic development, ensuring political security, social welfare, and easier access to effective healthcare and educational services, job placement and other social services.
While gains have been achieved, big challenges and difficulties still remain ahead for the country to tackle, the Health Minister emphasised.
Vietnam’s population has reached about 86.5 million people, which makes the country the 13th most populous nation in the world, with a population density higher than the world’s average by six fold.
The birth-rate has been declining, but this is believed to be short-term and unsustainable, and gender imbalance is likely to pose a headache for the nation in future, with live births of males currently outnumbering females (112 boys to every 100 girls).
Minister Trieu has also expressed concern that internal migration is on the rise in the country, and that large numbers of people continually on the move cause complicated problems for local authorities.
In Vietnam , the Human Development Index (HDI) has been gradually improving, however, it still remains lower than other countries in the region, the head of the nation’s ‘health watchdog’ noted.
He underscored to the need to promptly address the high infection rates of sexually-transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, quality of life issues, and other healthcare problems.
To strive to reduce the birth-rate by 0.2/1,000 – a target assigned by the National Assembly--the health minister said his sector plans to focus on carrying out a project to control population growth in 28 cities and provinces in coastal, island and sea areas along with promoting awareness campaigns in these localities.
The sector has made preparations for the 2011-2020 National Target Population-Family Planning Programme, and has targeted the adoption of models and solutions to further improve the quality of population and family planning services, including projects to minimise the gender imbalance, discourage early marriage and marriages between blood relatives, which still take place in some northern mountainous provinces and provinces in the Central Highlands.
It has also determined to develop and carry out a scheme that provides pre-marriage medical check-ups and counselling and to continue strengthening the central-to-local network of officials and health workers specialising in population and family planning work to accomplish the assigned tasks in the field.
This year’s World Population Day’s theme is “Responding to the Economic Crisis: Investing in Women is a Smart Choice”./.
Accordingly, population and family planning work has become one of the pillars of socio-economic development plans for all sectors and localities and has gradually gained the entire society’s enthusiastic support, as well as pledges from party committees and authorities at all levels across the country.
The work has contributed to easing the pressure of population growth on socio-economic development, ensuring political security, social welfare, and easier access to effective healthcare and educational services, job placement and other social services.
While gains have been achieved, big challenges and difficulties still remain ahead for the country to tackle, the Health Minister emphasised.
Vietnam’s population has reached about 86.5 million people, which makes the country the 13th most populous nation in the world, with a population density higher than the world’s average by six fold.
The birth-rate has been declining, but this is believed to be short-term and unsustainable, and gender imbalance is likely to pose a headache for the nation in future, with live births of males currently outnumbering females (112 boys to every 100 girls).
Minister Trieu has also expressed concern that internal migration is on the rise in the country, and that large numbers of people continually on the move cause complicated problems for local authorities.
In Vietnam , the Human Development Index (HDI) has been gradually improving, however, it still remains lower than other countries in the region, the head of the nation’s ‘health watchdog’ noted.
He underscored to the need to promptly address the high infection rates of sexually-transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, quality of life issues, and other healthcare problems.
To strive to reduce the birth-rate by 0.2/1,000 – a target assigned by the National Assembly--the health minister said his sector plans to focus on carrying out a project to control population growth in 28 cities and provinces in coastal, island and sea areas along with promoting awareness campaigns in these localities.
The sector has made preparations for the 2011-2020 National Target Population-Family Planning Programme, and has targeted the adoption of models and solutions to further improve the quality of population and family planning services, including projects to minimise the gender imbalance, discourage early marriage and marriages between blood relatives, which still take place in some northern mountainous provinces and provinces in the Central Highlands.
It has also determined to develop and carry out a scheme that provides pre-marriage medical check-ups and counselling and to continue strengthening the central-to-local network of officials and health workers specialising in population and family planning work to accomplish the assigned tasks in the field.
This year’s World Population Day’s theme is “Responding to the Economic Crisis: Investing in Women is a Smart Choice”./.
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