Poverty eradication, social security, and better medical care for people... These are also the efforts that Vietnam has been making to better ensure human rights.
The average life expectancy of Vietnamese people increased by 15 years
Vietnam is considered one of the fastest-growing countries in the world in terms of increasing the Human Development Index (HDI). In just a decade, Vietnam's human development index has increased by 1%, among the group of countries with the highest growth rate in the world. According to UNDP's latest Human Development Report, Vietnam's human development index ranking continues to increase from 46 to 115 and Vietnam is ranked in the group with a high human development index.
Thanks to great successes in family planning, the birth rate in Vietnam has decreased from 6,4 children/woman to 2,09 in 2006 and continues to be maintained today. Vietnam is also among the 6 countries in the world to achieve the 5th Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender equality and empowering all women and girls in the sustainable development goals of the United States. United Nations.
WHO assesses that Vietnam is moving further in the roadmap for universal health care
According to Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, unlike most developing countries, Vietnam has managed to maintain economic growth during the most difficult years of the COVID-19 pandemic. XNUMX. Although average growth has slowed and vulnerable groups and individuals have had very difficult times, Vietnam has avoided a reversal of human development progress.
“Vietnam has achieved many achievements in improving people's lives and improving healthcare quality in recent decades. Average life expectancy has increased by 15 years, with a significant decline in vaccine-preventable diseases. You have expanded the scope of health insurance, bringing the country further towards the goal of achieving universal health care," Mr. Tedros said.
According to data from the General Statistics Office, in 2023, the average life expectancy of Vietnamese people is 73,7 years old (in 2022 it will be 73,6 years old), of which men are 71,1 years old and women are 76,5 years old. . Also according to the General Statistics Office, population quality has improved, fertility has decreased sharply and basically maintained the replacement fertility level since 2005. The death rate remains low, average life expectancy increases due to the achievements of medical development and improved health care for the people.
Vietnam has suffered unprecedented impacts from the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has taken lives, increased inequality, and reduced people's ability to enjoy human rights. Ensuring the right to health is also a top priority. Vietnam has carried out the largest vaccination campaign in history. In just over 2 years, more than 266 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered to most people aged 12 years and older.
At the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on May 13, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific - Dr. Saia Ma'u Piukala shared some of WHO's priority goals in supporting and strengthening the capacity of the WHO. Vietnam's health sector aims to improve the capacity of the preventive health system to respond to future epidemics, improve the environment and promote healthy lifestyles, and ensure health security...
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha receives Dr. Saia Ma'u Piukala, Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region
WHO predicts that Vietnam will face many challenges in the coming time, especially in the context of climate change seriously affecting the level of human development in the most vulnerable areas, forcing many people to relocate. housing and loss of livelihood. However, WHO experts believe that Vietnam has enough capacity to manage the uncertainties related to cascading crises.
Ensure people's right to public health care
The right to public health care is always considered by Vietnam to be one of the important human rights, and is the basis for exercising many other human rights. The exercise of the right to public health care is also associated with other human rights such as: the right to life, the right to food, housing, employment, education, protection of privacy, access to information...
The right to social security has been recognized by the 2013 Constitution as a fundamental right of citizens in Article 34: "Citizens have the right to social security"; At the same time, it affirms the State's responsibility in ensuring the right to social security: "The State creates equal opportunities for citizens to enjoy social benefits, develops the social security system, and has policies assist the elderly, people with disabilities, the poor and people in other difficult circumstances."
The Constitution's provisions on social security rights are specified in many specialized legal documents such as: Labor Code, Social Insurance Law, Law on the Elderly, Law on Children, Law on People with Disabilities, Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance, Law on Occupational Safety and Health... Laws in this field better ensure the rights of citizens to access and use medical services with quality health insurance and social insurance services, creating a legal basis for implementing social preferential policies for policy beneficiaries and protecting consumers; better resolve the relationship linking economic growth with the implementation of social policies in general, labor and social security policies in particular according to the principles of equity and social progress.
The Vietnamese government always promotes the implementation of social security policies; expand the scope of social assistance beneficiaries; Social assistance programs, projects, and policies continue to be implemented effectively, especially policies to support and care for the lives of the elderly, people with disabilities, and children in special circumstances.
The number of people participating in health insurance in 2020 reached 88,04 million people, accounting for 90,85% of the population. In 2021, the number of people participating in health insurance is 88,837 million people, reaching 91,01% of the population, exceeding the target assigned in Resolution 01/NQ-CP dated January 01, 01 of the Government. Health care services were also restored quickly. The preventive health system is strengthened towards self-reliance and adaptation. By the end of 2019, health insurance coverage will reach about 2023% of the Vietnamese population. The social security system and social policies have proven superior in supporting workers facing difficulties caused by the COVID-94 pandemic.
Village health care in the mountainous province of Son La
As of June 6, the rate of ethnic minorities participating in health insurance will average 2023%; The proportion of women giving birth at a medical facility or with the support of medical staff reached an average of 91,9%, the proportion of pregnant women receiving regular check-ups at least 90,6 times during pregnancy reached an average of 4%. average 79,8%. The rate of malnourished and underweight children under 5 years old averages 15,8%. The rate of stunting in children under 5 years old is 21% on average.
Improve the capacity of medical staff, mobilize resources to deploy and replicate models that have been proven effective and have good experience in child health care such as the model: "Newborn Fund", "Supporting village midwives to perform professional tasks in the community", the average life expectancy from birth of 53 ethnic minorities has been significantly improved, in 2015 it was 69,9 years old; in 2019 reached 70,7 years old, significantly shortening the gap with the average life expectancy of the country.
Although there are many challenges ahead and resources for social security are still limited, Vietnam has been and will be making continuous efforts so that people can enjoy better public health care. That is also the result of Innovation and socio-economic development./.
Le Hoang
Source: https://vov.vn/chinh-tri/viet-nam-bao-dam-quyen-duoc-cham-soc-y-te-cong-cong-cho-nguoi-dan-post1094921.vov
