VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
In our country, in recent years, the state of child malnutrition has improved. However, along with the development and integration of the international economy, food safety issues and chronic non-communicable diseases related to nutrition such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, etc. tend to increase. These are diseases in which the role of diet has been proven to play an important role.
In our country, in recent years, the state of child malnutrition has improved. However, along with the development and integration of the international economy, food safety issues and chronic non-communicable diseases related to nutrition such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, etc. tend to increase. These are diseases in which the role of diet has been proven to play an important role.
Food safety and hygiene is a pressing issue today. Products from production to processing can be a source of disease and good hygiene habits have not become healthy practices. Food poisoning cases still occur in many localities. Food safety monitoring and testing are still very weak. This situation is also caused by the fact that the network of nutrition and food safety staff is very thin and does not meet the requirements.
Malnutrition is a common condition among patients in hospitals. In the 90s, due to the transition to a market economy, most of the hospital nutrition departments were dissolved, replaced by regular catering services. As a result, the meals of patients not only did not ensure nutrition and food safety but also did not ensure a diet according to the disease, negatively affecting the effectiveness of treatment. According to the report of the National Institute of Nutrition at the Workshop "Special nutrition to support treatment" in October 2011, about 50% of patients showed signs of malnutrition upon admission, but only 12.5% of patients were found to be malnourished.
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Lack of human resources trained at university level in nutrition and food safety at preventive medicine centers, food safety departments and hospitals. In recent years, the Ministry of Health has made great efforts in training nutrition staff. However, the current number of nutrition staff is mainly trained through short-term training courses or trained at Master's and Doctoral levels in community nutrition. Most of the nutritionists trained more than 30 years ago are currently working in the Department of Nutrition of hospitals. Meanwhile, due to the urgent development requirements and tasks of community nutrition, food safety and nutrition at medical facilities and hospitals, there is a need for university-level nutrition and dietetics specialists to do this job. According to the results of the survey to determine the training needs of nutrition and food safety technicians in 2005 by the Ministry of Health, the human resources of provincial and district preventive medicine centers have not met the requirements of nutrition and food safety work in the community. Only 1/3 of provincial preventive medicine centers have a nutrition department and almost no nutrition department in district health centers. Nearly 3/5 of nutrition departments and in provincial health centers lack staff with intermediate or higher qualifications. There are very few staff trained in nutrition working in the right field and there are no staff with university degrees. The rate of staff trained in nutrition and food safety is relatively high but mainly short-term and informal training. The nutrition department in hospitals has not met the requirements of nutritional and dietetic work for patients. Nearly 1/2 of provincial hospitals do not have a nutrition department. More than 3/5 of nutrition departments do not have university-level staff. More than 1/4 of the nutrition departments do not have intermediate staff. The number of staff in the nutrition department is 6 to 10 people, but the number of staff with university degrees accounts for less than 48%. The rate of staff without specialized training accounts for 74.5%, of the 25.5% of trained staff, 100% are in the form of short-term, non-formal training.
Thus, the need for university-level nutrition training is very urgent. To meet this need of society, with the support of the Japanese Nutrition Human Resources Development Project (VINEP Project), the Bachelor of Nutrition training program developed by the National Institute of Nutrition was approved by the Ministry of Education and Training and began pilot implementation at Hanoi Medical University in 2013. Up to now, with the support of the National Institute of Nutrition, the university-level Nutrition Bachelor training network has been implemented at 07 universities: Hanoi Medical University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Dong A University, Da Nang University of Public Health, Hanoi University of Thang Long University and Thanh Dong University.
Especially with Thanh Dong University, the National Institute of Nutrition and the VINEP Project have applied the Japanese model to build the first advanced university-level nutrition training program in Vietnam. Students of this course enjoy many incentives from the VINEP Project such as: "excellent students overcome difficulties" scholarships, modern and updated teaching materials, effective and time-saving teacher-student interaction website, modern practice facilities of the National Institute of Nutrition, attending some lectures by Japanese professors, internship opportunities in Japan for excellent students... With their efforts, the National Institute of Nutrition together with universities across the country will train a team of nutritionists with professional qualifications and skills, meeting the needs of society and contributing to maintaining and improving human health, preventing and preventing the severity of diseases, thereby helping to improve the quality of life.
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Do Huy - Director of Training Center
Email: nguyendohuy@dinhduong.org.vn
Phone: 0983082475; 0988628783; 0913558179; 02439724031