Building healthy communities and populations

In collaboration with national agencies and other UN agencies and donors, WHO supports health promotion activities, the implementation of the healthy settings concept, child health, adolescent health, mental health, injury prevention and control, health promotion in the workplace, non-communicable disease prevention and control, and the fight against tobacco.

In 2004, important achievements include the finalization of the Survey and Assessment of Vietnamese Youth (the largest study on youth knowledge, attitudes and practices conducted in the country), and the launching of the National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign for NCD prevention. In 2003, Viet Nam signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and is currently in the process of ratification.