Phân tích việc áp dụng chức năng y tế công cộng thông qua văn bản chỉ đạo được ban hành nhằm ứng phó với COVID-19 trong bốn giai đoạn dịch tại Việt Nam

The Government, the National Steering Committee, and the Ministry of Health are the agencies that play an important role in deciding, leading and operating in the entire process of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. Through issued documents, these agencies showed their concerns and directions to relevant departments and sectors at all levels. Collecting and analyzing such documents will allow lessons to be learned from both successes and failures in each and all four phases of the pandemic. The analysis is mainly through a comparative comparison of these documents with the basic functions of public health, a basic theoretical framework developed by the World Health Organization experts based on fundamental principles agreed upon by member countries of the United Nations. Vietnam is one of those consensus countries. That theoretical framework is standardized in each participating country accordingly before being promulgated. In Vietnam, that stage was completed in 2001 with the approval of the Ministry of Health. The research conducted during this particular pandemic allowed the team to make initial observations on how these basic public health functions were applied in a factual and specific event. The research has shown the concept in an objective way that those public health functions are specifically understood and applied in each different epidemic wave and in emergency response situations during the pandemic. From there, the relevant lessons learned will serve as suggestions for future complete plans before similar situations may happen in the future.