The Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Minister of Health, Dao Hong Lan, has officially signed Decision No. 1709/QĐ-BYT, ratifying the National Target Program on Healthcare, Population, and Development for the 2026 – 2035 period. Phase I, spanning from 2026 to 2030, establishes macro-level mandates focused on early, localized primary healthcare delivery, demographic quality optimization, clinical shielding for vulnerable groups, and comprehensive healthcare digitalization.
The documented core healthcare and population targets for 2030, electronic medical integration via the VNeID platform, and prioritized vulnerable beneficiary categories feature:
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Systemic Core Healthcare and Population Metrics Set for the 2030 Deadline:
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Primary Care and Disease Control: The statutory directive mandates that 100% of commune, ward, and special zone health stations systematically deploy clinical prevention, management, and treatment protocols for designated non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This framework supports the broader national goal of ensuring 90% of communal administrative areas satisfy the National Criteria on Communal Healthcare. Concurrently, 100% of provincial Centers for Disease Control (CDCs) must achieve advanced laboratory capacities to test for pathogens, antigens, and antibodies of dangerous infectious diseases, water qualities, and school sanitation profiles.
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Nutritional and Demographic Thresholds: The program dictates a reduction in stunting prevalence among children under five years of age to below 15%. Regarding demographic engineering, the framework aims to increase the crude birth rate by 0.5‰ relative to the 2025 baseline, while suppressing the sex ratio at birth to below 109 live-born boys per 100 live-born girls.
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Preventive Medicine and Social Assistance: The targets require 90% of young couples to receive premarital health counseling and screening examinations. Antenatal screening for pregnant women covering at least four common congenital disorders must hit 70%, while neonatal screening for newborns covering at least five common congenital disorders must achieve 90%. Furthermore, the volume of vulnerable individuals accessing long-term care across state-backed social welfare institutions must scale by 70% compared to the 2025 baseline.
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Comprehensive Healthcare Digitalization and National VNeID Integration Strategies:
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Lifelong Electronic Health Registries: The strategic blueprint enforces a 100% target for citizens to be assigned electronic health booklets, establishing life-cycle medical tracking. Individual health profiles will be constructed upon the National Electronic Health Record Platform, directly integrated with the Electronic Health Booklet module within the sovereign VNeID mobile application, and undergo mandatory synchronized annual updates.
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Smart Communal Infrastructure Models: Realizing the digital milestone requires an aggressive digital overhaul across primary care tiers. Accordingly, 100% of commune health stations must deploy integrated operational management platforms, implement systematic family doctor methodologies, and incorporate smart clinical internet-of-things (IoT) medical devices for residential home-care monitoring. Concurrently, 100% of the population will maintain entry access to clinical counseling via standardized telehealth platforms.
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Delineation of Target Beneficiaries and Regional Allocation Priorities:
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Geographic Focus Areas: While the program serves the collective Vietnamese population, state financing and logistics will be prioritized toward remote areas experiencing acute socio-economic hardships, mountainous terrains, border corridors, and offshore island jurisdictions.
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Prioritized Demographic Cohorts: Specialized target groups designated for accelerated assistance encompass individuals with meritorious services to the revolution, the elderly, pregnant women, mothers, infants, couples within active reproductive age brackets, persons with disabilities, migrant populations, and industrial zone laborers.
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