Putting non-communicable disease data to work in Vietnam: an investigation of community health surveillance capacity

Table 2 Selected health statistics indicators on NCD and reporting flow^a

Indicators	Indicator collection method	Ministry of Health	Public Health Institutes	Provincial Health Department/CDC	District Health Centre	Commune Health Stations	Hospitals
Risk factor
Tobacco use, alcohol consumption, etc	Surveys (WHO, GSHS, GATS, national survey)^b	Collect and analyse information	Technical support
Impact factor
Mortality and causes	Periodical report Surveys	Collection of information from facilities under MOH, and analyse from all sources	Technical support	Collection and report information from facilities under province and from district to MOH	Collect and report information to the province	Collect and report information to the district	Collect and report information to province or Ministry of Health
Malnutrition, obesity	Surveys	Collect and analyse information	Collect and analyse information
NCD
Diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, diabetes, COPD, asthma, mental disorders	Periodic reports National Surveys	Collection of information from facilities under MOH, and analyse from all sources		Annually collection and report information from facilities under province and from district to MOH	Quarterly collect and report information to the province	Quarterly collect and report information to the district	Collect and report information to province/ MOH
System Capacity
CHS NCD prevention and treatment	Periodical report Surveys (SARA)^b	Collect and analyse information		Collection and report information to MOH

^a selected from Circular 20/2019/TT-BYT, issued by Health Minister on July 2019
^b WHO World Health Organization STEPwise Approach to NCD Risk Factor Surveillance, GSHS Global School-based Student Health Survey, GATS Global Adult Tobacco Survey, SARA Service Availability and Readiness Assessment

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