Improving population quality and maintaining a reasonable birth rate tomeet human resources demand for national development were the maintopics of discussion at a seminar in northern Hung Yen province onAugust 13.
The topics are also the major orientations of the target programme on population and family planning in 2016-2020.
More than 200 representatives from the Health Ministry and populationdepartments of 63 provinces and cities re-affirmed the importance of thepopulation and family planning programme for the socio-economicdevelopment.
Birth reduction and high population qualitywill save spending on social services, reduce poverty and improvepeople’s living standards, especially mother’s health, and reduce thechild mortality rate, thus easing burdens on the society, they said.
According to the General Department of Population and Family Planning,Vietnam is facing big population challenges in the transitional periodfrom a high to low fertility rate and from a young to old populationstructure.
Two out of the country’s six main regions,namely the Central Highlands and the northern central-central coastalregions, have not yet reached a replacement birth level.
The country sees a high gender imbalance at birth, which tends to beincreasing, as well as poor population quality, including lower statureand physical strength indicators than those of regional countries.
Participants also pointed out limitations in carrying out theprogramme, including poor investment, weak human resources, andasynchronous and slow implementation of activities.
In2015, Vietnam’s population is forecast to reach 91.5 million, with a 0.2percent reduction in population growth rate to 1.03 percent compared to2013.
The rate of people using modern contraceptivemethods is expected to rise from 27 percent last year to 71 percent in2015, and the sex ratio at birth to be curbed at 114.5 boys to 100girls.
The prenatal screening rate is hoped to be raised to 15 percent while the rate of newborn screening, up 30 percent.
In the 2016-2020, the country aims to reach a sex ratio at birth of 115boys to 100 girls, increase the rate of elderly people with access tohealth care services to 50 percent, and maintaining a reasonable birthrate.-VNA
The topics are also the major orientations of the target programme on population and family planning in 2016-2020.
More than 200 representatives from the Health Ministry and populationdepartments of 63 provinces and cities re-affirmed the importance of thepopulation and family planning programme for the socio-economicdevelopment.
Birth reduction and high population qualitywill save spending on social services, reduce poverty and improvepeople’s living standards, especially mother’s health, and reduce thechild mortality rate, thus easing burdens on the society, they said.
According to the General Department of Population and Family Planning,Vietnam is facing big population challenges in the transitional periodfrom a high to low fertility rate and from a young to old populationstructure.
Two out of the country’s six main regions,namely the Central Highlands and the northern central-central coastalregions, have not yet reached a replacement birth level.
The country sees a high gender imbalance at birth, which tends to beincreasing, as well as poor population quality, including lower statureand physical strength indicators than those of regional countries.
Participants also pointed out limitations in carrying out theprogramme, including poor investment, weak human resources, andasynchronous and slow implementation of activities.
In2015, Vietnam’s population is forecast to reach 91.5 million, with a 0.2percent reduction in population growth rate to 1.03 percent compared to2013.
The rate of people using modern contraceptivemethods is expected to rise from 27 percent last year to 71 percent in2015, and the sex ratio at birth to be curbed at 114.5 boys to 100girls.
The prenatal screening rate is hoped to be raised to 15 percent while the rate of newborn screening, up 30 percent.
In the 2016-2020, the country aims to reach a sex ratio at birth of 115boys to 100 girls, increase the rate of elderly people with access tohealth care services to 50 percent, and maintaining a reasonable birthrate.-VNA
