Improving professional skills for population workers

This is a practical activity within the series of activities to celebrate Vietnam Population Day on December 26 and National Action Month on Population.

In December, the training program will continue to be implemented in Que Phong, Quy Chau, Yen Thanh, Quynh Luu districts, Ky Son, Tuong Duong, Con Cuong districts and Nam Dan district for more than 2,000 population collaborators and population officials at district and commune levels.

Delegates attending the training course. Photo: My Ha

During the one-day period, students will be instructed on how to collect information, make initial notes in A0 books; and how to make notes in A0 books.

Previously, on January 10, 2022, the Ministry of Health issued Circular No. 01/TT-BYT on regulations for initial recording and reporting of specialized population statistics. The initial population recording book (Book A0) is used to record information on residential addresses of households (households, collective households), the most general information of each member of the household and specialized population information. Book A0 includes a cover, an address information page, supporting pages and pre-printed Household Registration Form pages on A4 paper (29.7cm x 21cm) and bound into a book.

The population record book will replace the original record book model on Population - Family Planning for the period 2016-2020 and will be deployed synchronously across the province from the beginning of 2023. On that basis, we will continue to review and supplement specialized population information of households in the area and update information into the electronic data warehouse at the commune, district and city levels; deploy a system of forms and electronic statistical reporting regime specialized in population according to Circular No. 01/TT-BYT dated January 10, 2022 of the Ministry of Health.

Mr. Nguyen Ba Tan - Head of the Department of Population and Family Planning delivered the opening speech at the conference. Photo: My Ha

In his opening speech at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Ba Tan - Head of the Department of Population and Family Planning, pointed out the importance of replacing the original record book form on population and family planning, especially in the current period of digitalization of population management.

Through the initial recording in book A0, it is intended to reflect the basic information for the most general identification of each person in the household; information on family planning and information on changes in population and family planning. The information in Book A0 is the basic information of the specialized statistical information system of population and family planning, ensuring correct and objective information. At the same time, it contributes to improving the quality of information and data of the specialized statistical information system of population and family planning.

At the conference, Head of the Department of Population and Family Planning Nguyen Ba Tan also discussed professional skills on population and development and emphasized the need to change population work tasks in the spirit of Resolution 21-NQ/TW of the Central Committee on "Continuing to shift the focus of population policy from family planning to population and development".

In Nghe An, facing many challenges and difficulties, population work in the coming time will focus on 6 tasks, which are: Continuing to reduce the birth rate, reducing the birth rate of the third child or more, in order to soon reach the replacement birth rate; moving towards bringing the sex ratio at birth to a natural balance; effectively utilizing the golden population structure; adapting to population aging; distributing the population reasonably; improving the quality of the population, contributing to the rapid and sustainable socio-economic development of Nghe An province.

Representative of the Department of Population and Family Planning introduces the use of the new A0 book form. Photo: My Ha

From the core tasks of population work in the coming time, the leaders of the Department of Population - Family Planning have also proposed solutions for implementation, providing some knowledge and skills on medical expertise, population and development in the direction of population work in the new situation. This is also an opportunity for those working in population work to learn, exchange experiences and share the advantages, difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process to help population work be deployed effectively in the coming time.