The occupational health in Vietnam

Introduction
At present time, workers’ health is facing risks and new challenges as population explosion, heavily environmental pollution, speed of urbanization, arising new occupational diseases while old occupational diseases still at high rate. The occupational health network had been mobilized a different organizations/institutions to provide health care services for workers and to set up a unified measures in order to ensure worker’s health, protect the employee from occupational diseases and increase productivity.

Methods
This report deals with the study on occupational health’s network data statistic from 2001 to 2010 in Vietnam and the measures at present time.

Results
The result of this study pointed out that: Polluted working environment (including dust, toxic gases, chemical factor,...) the working environmental samples over time-weighted average (TWA) such as micro climate: 14.16t; dust: 11.13; noise: 22.16; light: 15.28; toxic gases: 6.99; vibration 5.5 and others 8.52 percent; reduce 3.14, 11.17, 8.64, 6.12, 2.91, 22.4, 5.78 percent respectively from 2005 - 2010. Average percentage reducing of the working environmental samples over TWA is about one percent per year. Common diseases such as respiratory diseases are account about 27-30 percent; eyes diseases: 6-8 percent; skin diseases: 2-3 percent; tuberculosis: 0.1-0.3 percent. The average sick leave among workers from 2001 – 2010 is about from 14 – 17 percent; sick leave day is about 1 – 1.36 day per worker per year. The occupational diseases are still increasing. The total cumulative of occupational diseases case at the end of 2010 is 26,928 with silicosis is about 20,229 cases (account 75.12 percent).

Discussion
The interventional measures are: Concentrate into high risk group of occupational diseases’ enterprises; SME enterprises,... Strengthen capacity through investment in technique, equipment and profession; Stabilize the occupational health network; Strengthen managerial environmental working conditions, occupational diseases examine; Implement eliminating silicosis and ARD program, implementation of BOHS program in Vietnam.