Putting non-communicable disease data to work in Vietnam: an investigation of community health surveillance capacity.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the public health system's critical role in non-communicable disease (NCD) surveillance in Vietnam, limited evidence exists on the implementation of NCD surveillance activities within these systems and the need for capacity building across different system levels to meet expected NCD surveillance goals. This study aimed to evaluate the status of and describe factors affecting the implementation of NCD surveillance activities and to identify the NCD surveillance capacity building needs of the public health system in Vietnam.

Methods

We used a mixed-methods approach in four provinces, conducting self-completed surveys of staff from six Preventive Medicine Institutes (PHI), 53 Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and 148 commune health stations (CHS), as well

SUBMITTER: Nguyen TNT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9926709 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature