Disease prevention law to ensure comprehensive healthcare: experts
With non-communicable diseases now accounting for 70 per cent of deaths in Việt Nam annually, health experts are urging the promulgation of the Law on Disease Prevention as a comprehensive legal framework to improve the overall health quality of the population.
While Việt Nam adopted the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, there is no comprehensive legal framework to address health risks such as environmental factors, nutrition or mental health, nor control over non-communicable diseases. Therefore, a law on disease prevention is proposed to address these issues, aiming for an overall management of healthcare and laying a foundation to improve people’s quality of life and life expectancy.
