On January 28, 2015, in Hanoi, with the consent of the leaders of the Ministry of Health, the Department of Preventive Medicine cooperated with relevant agencies to organize a seminar on “Strengthening communication coordination on work Preventive health care". Attending the seminar were nearly 100 reporters, journalists, representatives from central press agencies and Hanoi, representatives of the Department of Communication and Emulation - Commendation, Central Health Education Communication Center, The Ministry of Health, representatives of international organizations such as the World Health Organization, Health Bridge Organization, Unilever Vietnam Foundation ... The objective of the workshop was to strengthen communication coordination on preventive medicine work and opportunities for news agencies and newspapers to give their comments to the Department of Preventive Medicine and the preventive medicine system on communication work in the past time, to discuss solutions to enhance coordination. communication between the Department of Preventive Medicine and news agencies and the press in the coming time. Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tran Dac Phu, Director of Department of Preventive Medicine chaired the workshop.
At the seminar, delegates spent most of their time discussing and discussing communication coordination in preventive medicine. Comments from the majority of delegates were unanimous: communication is very important in the field of preventive medicine. Because communication is the most effective method to help people and communities receive information, have knowledge about health, implement health protection and promotion behaviors. On the other hand, the media also helps authorities, ministries, agencies, departments and unions to pay more attention to and invest in preventive medicine. Since then, all people and the whole society are encouraged to join hands, contribute to the implementation of well the work of protecting and improving the people's health.
In recent years, the coordination between the Ministry of Health of which the focal agency is the Preventive Medicine Department with relevant organizations, agencies, and departments, especially news agencies and press agencies has been promote and achieve many remarkable results. The Department of Preventive Medicine provided quickly and fully to press agencies the information on the epidemic situation, disease, the danger of the epidemic, disease, transmission route, how to recognize and prevent ... Since then, reporters and press agencies have an official source of information to bring to the people, the community, effectively contributing to the prevention of epidemics and diseases. In addition to providing timely information, the Department of Preventive Medicine has also developed and operated various forms of communication such as the Agency's website, facebook page, Health and Disease Control magazine ... . Many epidemics and diseases such as SARS, Influenza A (H5N1), Influenza A (H1N1), Influenza A (H7N9), Diarrhea, Measles ... circulating in Vietnam have been gradually repelled and controlled, largely thanks to the results of communication. In addition, Vietnam has so far performed well communication to prevent the penetration of many dangerous and emerging epidemics circulating in the world such as MERS-CoV, Ebolla ... In the coming time, The Department of Preventive Medicine continues to develop communication processes and guidelines such as the standard process of risk communication, disease prevention messages and recommendations ... to further enhance the effectiveness of transmission. information.
The reporters, representatives of news agencies and newspapers highly appreciated the efforts and cooperation of the Department of Preventive Medicine, the Ministry of Health in the past time. However, in the future, we still continue to face many challenges in preventive medicine, such as infectious diseases continue to circulate, outbreaks, non-communicable diseases are increasing. increasing, the need to protect and improve people's health in new life conditions is increasingly high ... Therefore, delegates agreed that communication coordination between the parties needs to be more tight, it is necessary to organize seminars, building specific mechanisms and policies on health communication, ... Conclusion of the seminar, Assoc. Tran Dac Phu highly appreciated the presence and sincere contributions of journalists, and wished that in the future to continue to receive the attention and cooperation of reporters and news agencies. reports on the timely, accurate and complete coverage of epidemic information, control measures of the health sector ... for effective communication, contributing to the care and protect people's health.

Communications Department - Route Steering, Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health

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