Chương 3: Pháp lệnh dân số năm 2003 Chất lượng dân số

Chapter III

POPULATION QUALITY

Article 20.- Raising of the population quality

1. To raise the population quality is the fundamental policy of the State for the cause of national development.

2. The State shall implement policies to raise the population quality physically, intellectually and spiritually in order to increase Vietnam’s human development indexes to the world’s advanced level, thus meeting the requirements of national industrialization and modernization.

Article 21.- Measures to raise the population quality

The measures to raise the population quality include:

1. Ensuring fundamental human rights; the right to all-sided and equal physical, intellectual and spiritual development; supporting to raise basic indicators regarding height, weight and stamina; increasing average life expectancy; educational level as well as average per capita income.

2. Propagating, counseling and helping people to understand, actively and voluntarily take measures to raise the population quality;

3. Diversifying forms of provision of goods and public services, especially in the fields of education and health, with a view to improving the living quality and raising the population quality;

4. Implementing policies and measures to give support to areas with exceptionally difficult socio-economic conditions and with difficult socio-economic conditions, the poor, and persons meeting with difficulties, in order to raise the population quality.

Article 22.- Responsibility to raise the population quality

1. The State shall encourage and create favorable conditions for organizations and individuals to apply measures to raise the population quality through programs and projects on socio-economic development, investment in technical infrastructure, building of the social welfare system, and protection of the ecological environment.

2. Agencies, organizations and individuals shall have to perform the work of health protection and physical training, raise the educational, intellectual and economic levels of development, and increase social welfare, preserve cultural and spiritual values, and protect the ecological environment.

3. The State management agencies in charge of population shall have to coordinate with concerned agencies and organizations in designing and implementing the model of raising the population quality in combination with developing sustainable families, and the model of intervening and raising the population quality in communities; supply information, propagate, counsel and help families and individuals to apply measures to raise the population quality.

4. Agencies, organizations and individuals shall be provided with information, guided and assisted in, and voluntarily apply, measures to raise the population quality.

Article 23.- Reproduction-supporting measures

1. The State shall encourage and create conditions for men and women to have health checks before making marriage registration, have gene tests for people in danger of genetic defects or being affected with toxic chemicals; give counseling on hereditary genes; provide material and spiritual assistance for people with genetic defects, affected with toxic chemicals or infected with HIV/AIDS.

2. The State shall invest and encourage organizations and individuals to invest in building technical and material foundations in service of reproduction-supporting technology in order to assist sterile and sterilized people as well as people with demands therefor according to law provisions.

Article 24.- Building of prosperous, equal, progressive, happy and sustainable families

1. The State shall adopt policies and measures to eliminate all forms of gender discrimination, discriminatory treatment between boys and girls, ensuring that women and men have the same interests and obligations in building prosperous, equal, progressive, happy and sustainable families.

2. The State shall adopt policies to encourage the preservation of multi-generation families; expand social services suitable to different family patterns, ensuring that every family member can enjoy benefits and fulfill all obligations.

3. Agencies, organizations and individuals shall have the duty to propagate, counsel and assist families to raise their material and spiritual life, and build a prosperous, equal, progressive, happy and stable life.

4. Family members shall have the duty to support one another in applying measures to take care of health, reproductive health, practice family planning, and raise the material and spiritual life for each member.

Article 25.- Raising of the population quality for communities

The People’s Committees at all levels shall have to direct and organize the application of economic development measures, the provision of social services and assurance of social welfare in order to raise the population quality for communities in their respective localities.