Healthy aging in Vietnam: results from national representative surveys on older persons.

IF 2.3 4区医学 Q2 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES

Health Promotion International Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI:10.1093/heapro/daaf027

Long Thanh Giang, Thu Dai Bui, Tien Thuy Ngoc Doan, Van Thi Truong, Anh Lan To

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Abstract

This study constructed the Healthy Aging Index (HAI) and identified its associated factors, using two waves of nationally representative data on the Vietnamese older persons in 2019 and 2022. HAI was constructed with 22 variables reflecting various domains of healthy aging, and its measurement ranged from 0 to 100. Descriptive statistics and multivariate Tobit regressions were conducted. We found that the overall HAI scores were relatively high in 2019 and 2022 (84.05 and 83.71, respectively), indicating that the Vietnamese older persons were relatively healthy. More advanced age, being women, living with at least a child, living with a spouse, being more affluent, having higher educational level, receiving social welfare benefits, performing household chores, and utilization of healthcare services were associated with the overall HAI scores as well as each factor of HAI scores. This study also discussed policies that can be designed to enhance well-being of older persons in Vietnam, including the investment in higher educational training, lifelong learning programs for older adults, increasing pension and social welfare benefits together with enhancing healthcare delivery for vulnerable groups, and the development of an integrated care model combining health and social care.

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越南的健康老龄化：关于老年人的全国代表性调查结果。

本研究利用2019年和2022年越南老年人的两波全国代表性数据，构建了健康老龄化指数（HAI）并确定了其相关因素。HAI由22个反映健康老龄化各个领域的变量组成，其测量范围为0 ~ 100。进行描述性统计和多元Tobit回归。我们发现，2019年和2022年的总体HAI得分相对较高（分别为84.05分和83.71分），表明越南老年人相对健康。高龄、女性、与至少一个孩子同住、与配偶同住、更富裕、受教育程度更高、接受社会福利、从事家务劳动和利用医疗保健服务与总体HAI得分以及HAI得分的各个因素相关。本研究亦讨论了可设计的政策，以提高越南老年人的福祉，包括投资高等教育培训，老年人终身学习计划，增加养老金和社会福利福利，同时加强对弱势群体的医疗保健服务，以及发展结合健康和社会护理的综合护理模式。

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Health Promotion International Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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146

期刊介绍： Health Promotion International contains refereed original articles, reviews, and debate articles on major themes and innovations in the health promotion field. In line with the remits of the series of global conferences on health promotion the journal expressly invites contributions from sectors beyond health. These may include education, employment, government, the media, industry, environmental agencies, and community networks. As the thought journal of the international health promotion movement we seek in particular theoretical, methodological and activist advances to the field. Thus, the journal provides a unique focal point for articles of high quality that describe not only theories and concepts, research projects and policy formulation, but also planned and spontaneous activities, organizational change, as well as social and environmental development.