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PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF OBESITY IN VIETNAM: CHALLENGES & MEASURES IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

Luong, Vinh Quoc Duy

Vietnam – major statistics

Source: World Bank

• Lower middle income country
• GDP: 193.599 USD (2015)
• Population: 91.713 million
• GDP per capita: 2,110 USD
• Life expectancy: 75.78

Vietnam – major statistics

Source: WHO Statistics

NCDs accounts for most deaths

53.06 52.10 33.13 13.23 12.23 44.71 41.80 43.68 61.62 69.63 2.23 6.10 23.20 25.15 18.15 1976 1986 1996 2006 2013

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Communicable diseases Non-communicable diseases Accident, injury, poisoning Source: Vietnam Ministry of Health (2014)

2.42 2.63 2.98 3.00 3.29 3.53 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

• Vol. of beer (million liters)

Source: General Statistical Office (2016)

Challenge 1: Data for surveillance is limited

• The national child nutrition surveillance programme is
• riented towards under-nutrition problem in children

aged 5 years or less  national data collection system to monitor the trends of nutritional status for various cohorts, especially adults is limited.

• No census on nutritional status.
• Bi-annual Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys

cover fairly small sample: < 1% population.

Challenge 2: People are mostly not aware of the prevalence of overweight which tends to be associated with business concentration

1.9 0.9 2.0 1.6 2.6 2.1 8.7 7.4 3.3 3.1 4.7 4.9 5 5.6 15.2 10.3 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 RRD NE NW NCC SCC CH SE MRD % Overweight in 2000 Overweight in 2005 Source: Ha et al. (2011)

Challenge 3: fighting undernutrition

• National Strategy for Nutrition (2011-

2020), vision 2030

– Improve quality of meals – Improve nutritional intake for women and children. – Reduce deficiency in micronutrients – Control overweight and obesity step by step – Improve people’s perception of healthy diet – Improve health facilities & infrastructure

Challenge 4: Norms

• Drinking as a social
• bligation to

strengthen social network connections and opportunities:

– Among relatives – Among colleagues – With business partners

Challenge 4: Norms

• Reports from

Ministry of Health shows an increase in consumption of alcohol among group of ages,

• esp. those who

are working.

Challenge 4: Norms

• Fast food as

a modern life style.

Challenge 5: Law enforcement

Challenge 6: Commercial reasons

Challenge 6: Commercial reasons

Suggested measures

• Obesity as a disease.
• Housing and Population Census should

include health indicators.

• Strict control of advertisement and sale.