Vietnamese Society Research Articles

Highlights of the 2022 Vietnamese Society of Hypertension guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of arterial hypertension: The collaboration of the Vietnamese Society of Hypertension (VSH) task force with the contribution of the Vietnam National Heart Association (VNHA): The collaboration of the Vietnamese Society of Hypertension (VSH) task force with the contribution of the Vietnam National Heart Association (VNHA).

Hypertension is uncontrolled in over 50% hypertensive population in Vietnam which indicated a compelling need for new hypertension guidelines. The highlights were composed of three parts: the diagnosis of arterial hypertension, the recommendation of home blood pressure monitoring, and the treatment of hypertension. Our guideline applied flexibility based upon the “essential” and “optimal” concepts in the diagnosis and management of hypertensive patients according to the socio‐economic status of Vietnam. Hypertension is defined as an office systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg which is equivalent to a 24‐hr ambulatory blood pressure monitoring average of ≥130/80 mmHg or home blood pressure monitoring average of ≥135/85 mmHg. We established an integrated hypertensive diagnostic algorithm for adults with the optimal option by the role of out‐of‐office blood pressure measurement, especially home blood pressure monitoring, which is fully recommended in this guideline. The threshold and target of hypertension treatment were individualized in safety range and effective evidence‐based medicine. We also update for the management of resistant hypertension, hypertension in diabetic patients, hypertension with heart failure, and with other comorbidities. Vietnam has tried on the best strategy for improving the control of hypertension and recently received several achievements in the world, especially in the Asian region. Because the conditions for conducting our national data have not been fully conducted, we have to adapt from existing guidelines so there are still certain limitations that need to be supplemented and adjusted in the upcoming version.

Reconfiguring Inculturations

In the history of building the Vietnamese National Church, many Catholic works of literature produced by missionaries and local believers sought to place the faith in the context of Vietnamese society. Hội đồng tứ giáo is one of the most influential works within this proliferative Catholic literature, with many versions printed in Chinese, Nôm, and quốc ngữ. Drawing on interreligious knowledge and networks, it sought to respond to the intellectual innovation and local spiritual paradigm of the three religions in a late eighteenth-century context. By configuring a formal debate between representatives from Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Catholicism, the book demonstrates broader intellectual connections of Catholic knowledge and multidimensional inculturation in the cultural and religious context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Vietnam. The interfaith dialogue in the book illuminates an inculturation process assembled by the flows of people and ideas that in turn shaped local Catholic traditions.

Vietnamese-American Diaspora Engagement in Homeland Development: Reciprocities, Potentials, and Challenges

This article explores the reciprocal relationship between Vietnam and its diaspora in the United States, and suggests that they have adopted a “reconciliatory approach” to promote development progress within the context of transnational interactions triggered by globalization. The diaspora acts reactively to the home state’s responses, but proactively to its capacity for effective communication and negotiation. Conversely, the home state at first acts reactively toward transnational interactions and then gradually adopts expatriate-oriented policies to proactively steer diaspora engagement for development impacts. Reciprocal interactions help to expand the scope of diaspora engagement from low- to high-level transnational practices, which go beyond income-based and material supports and center on social development aiming to improve the wellbeing of every individual in Vietnamese society. These reactions may also push for further policy change in the home country and result in improved institutional conditions in which deeper contributions of the diaspora could be expected for the consolidation of peace and development in a post-conflict society.

Identifying Factors that Contribute to the Social Responsibility of Young People and Some Suggestions for Promoting Social Responsibility of Vietnamese Youth Today

Youth is a social class that contributes significantly to national strength and is one of the factors determining the country's future. Throughout Vietnamese history, youth have always served as the strike force in the cause of national construction and defense. Youth is also an important factor in developing political-military strength, socioeconomic development, and cultural creativity. In the context of globalization and a dynamic society such as Vietnam today, young people are emerging as a source of "knowledge" labor and the country's creative subject. Our Party and State have always placed a high value on youth development work, with a particular emphasis on the social responsibility of Vietnamese youth. Whether or not the Doi Moi is successful, whether or not the country enters the twenty-first century with a worthy position in the world community, and whether or not the Vietnamese revolution firmly follows the socialist path depends largely on the youth force, on fostering and training the young generation". Article 4 of the Law on Youth (2020) states unequivocally: "Youth are a great social force, who is impulsive and creative, leading the process of renewal, construction, and defense of the Vietnamese Fatherland and society" tenet; play an important role in the country's industrialization and modernization, international integration, and socialism building". Therefore, along with the rights and obligations of citizens according to the provisions of the Constitution and the law, it is also important to promote the social responsibility of the youth. A research that clarifies the concept and characteristics of social responsibility of youth in the current context is meaningful in orienting the youth social responsibility framework and is the foundation for proposing solutions to encourage young people to demonstrate their social responsibility. This article focuses on analyzing the concept of young people's social responsibility and the elements constituting social responsibility of young people.

ANNOUCING NEW CHIEF-EDITOR THE JOURNAL DERMATOLOGIC THERAPY

Robert A. Schwartz, the Professor and Head of Dermatology at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, is the new Editor-in-Chief of Dermatologic Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal marking its 25th anniversary. He was recognized in Hanoi with Honorary Membership in the Vietnamese Society of Dermatology, and inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Academy of Dermatology and Venereology in 2017.

Stigmatizing Attitudes toward People Living with HIV among Young Women Migrant Workers in Vietnam.

Despite intensive HIV education and prevention efforts in the past few years, stigmatizing attitudes toward people living with HIV (PLWH) remain a major barrier to HIV prevention and treatment efforts in Vietnam. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of stigmatizing attitudes regarding HIV and identify correlative factors that impact the perceptions of PLWH among a heretofore overlooked demographic in Vietnamese society: women who are migrant workers in designated industrial zones (IZs). A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1061 women migrant workers aged 18 to 29 from January 2020 to November 2020 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Stigmatizing attitudes toward PLWH were measured using a four-item scale. Multiple logistic regression was conducted to examine the factors associated with stigmatizing attitudes. Our findings indicate both substantial levels of stigma persisting among this demographic group as well as the influence of important mitigating factors on the expression of HIV-related stigma. Over seventy-six percent (76.2%) of the participants reported having at least one of the four stigmatizing attitudes. Greater levels of stigmatizing attitudes toward PLWH were significantly associated with lower HIV knowledge, lower levels of education, and identifying as Kinh (the ethnic majority in Vietnam). Additionally, this study found that questions framing HIV infection through a familial lens were significantly associated with lower rates of stigmatizing responses. The high overall levels of stigmatizing attitudes toward PLWH among the study participants suggests that there is an urgent need for the development of culturally appropriate interventions and outreach education activities to reduce stigmatizing attitudes toward PLWH among women who are migrant workers working in the IZs in Vietnam. This study adds to both the existing literature and current efforts and policies around HIV in Vietnam by empirically suggesting that familial-based messaging may be a powerful potential narrative for interventions addressing HIV-related issues such as stigma.

Communication culture of the Khmer ethnicity in Vietnam (Case: communication in family and community phum, soc)

Communicative culture is one of the elements of culture. It bears the mark of the way of thinking, the way of education, the behavior of each person, the humanity of the community. Therefore, in each ethnic group, each country in general, and the Khmer people in Vietnam in particular, there are social codes of conduct suitable to cultural conditions, showing humanity through the behavior of each person. individuals in families and communities. The article approaches to study the communication culture of the Khmer in different languages, and the behavior between relationships within the family, phum, and squirrels of the Khmer. Since then, the study wishes to contribute to the development of behavioral culture, building a solid cultural foundation for individuals and ethnic Khmer people from the traditional cultural background and the development of Vietnamese society today.

Authoritarian Environmentalism-Captured Collaboration in Vietnamese Water Management.

This article examines collaborative environmental governance under authoritarian political structures. Building on the theoretical frame of authoritarian environmentalism, it peruses fieldwork material collected during 2009–2019 to determine the most prominent features of recent collaborative governance efforts in the field of water management in Vietnam, a historically seasonal flooding-dependent country. A key feature is technocratisation, where top-down management structures and practices prioritise technocratic solutions to environmental challenges over deliberation, awareness raising, and integration of local knowledge. Another equally important feature is authoritarian intensification, by which increasingly complex environmental management functions, coupled with the state’s determination to retain political control, reinforce authoritarian governance. We jointly refer to these features as captured collaboration, signifying a strong authoritarian regime dominance in both vertical and horizontal relations of environmental governance. However, while captured collaboration still appears to be a defining collaborative characteristic, the article acknowledges rising calls for deliberative government in Vietnamese society. This is particularly outspoken in relation to the highly contested issues of hydropower construction and enhanced floods, debates that simultaneously have paved the way for a burgeoning, though much delayed, paradigm shift.

Factors Affecting Arts Marketing of Theaters in Hanoi, Vietnam

Arts marketing is the inevitable development trend of contemporary society, in the context of international exchanges and integration deepening and the competition in the arts field is becoming more and more intensive. If arts organizations want to successfully carry out marketing activities, they need to have a deep understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of arts marketing. Theoretically, many researchers have pointed out that the factors impacting and affecting arts marketing include internal environment and external environment factors, in which the important factors are the external environment ones, including: Economic, political and legal factors; Cultural, social and technological factors. The objective of this study is to evaluate the influence of external environmental factors on arts marketing of theaters in Hanoi, Vietnam. The author inherits the above research points and conducts a practical survey for 50 managers and 150 artists of 12 theaters in Hanoi capital, Vietnam. The important contribution of the study is shown by the author through the results of testing the scales, analyzing the correlation between the scales and testing the research hypothesis, which is: economic, political, legal factors (EPL) and Cultural, social and technological factors (CST) all have an impact on arts marketing (AM) of theaters in Hanoi, Vietnam. Moreover, Economic, political and legal factors (EPL) have a stronger influence on Arts Marketing (AM). The research results are also meaningful to many Vietnam's arts managers in planning and adjusting policies to achieve results and effectiveness in marketing activities to bring art works to the public; adapting to the market, in line with the movement and development trend of Vietnamese society and international integration.

The attitudes of Vietnamese social work practitioners toward sexual minorities

Summary Social workers are expected to challenge the exclusion and oppression of marginalised populations which requires the critical interrogation of prejudicial views, discriminatory attitudes, and oppressive practices. In this regard, social work practitioners need to be vigilant of their own attitudes toward the people they serve. This is relevant to social work practice with sexual minorities. This paper presents the results of a mixed-methods study informed by a critical theoretical frame that explored Vietnamese social work practitioners’ attitudes toward sexual minorities. The findings presented in this article were drawn from a survey of 292 social work practitioners based in Hanoi, Vietnam and 12 semi-structured interviews with volunteers recruited from the pool of survey participants. Findings The findings suggest that practitioners who participated in this study held relatively positive attitudes toward people who identify as lesbian or gay. However, those who had what could be considered moderate to positive attitudes were not necessarily free from prejudicial and discriminatory views, particularly when it came to certain matters such as those relating to their own families and work with young children. Applications The discussion of the findings illustrate the relevance of the broader social context to Vietnamese social work practitioners’ attitudes toward sexual minorities. It highlights the potent influence of dominant ideologies in shaping prejudicial views and attitudes and points to the need for practice at a broader level targeting Vietnamese society and culture as a whole.

Process of industrialization and modernization in Vietnam

Industrialization is one of the most important tasks of the development process because it brings both material production and the country's socio-cultural life to a new level. For the cause of building socialism, industrialization plays the role of creating conditions and material and technical premises for the socialist regime. In each historical period, based on the socio-economic situation, industrialization has specific and appropriate content and steps. For Vietnam, when officially entering the transition period to socialism, the Party advocated socialist industrialization, and from the end of the twentieth century to the present, this process has been fully determined is industrialization and modernization. It is a comprehensive and extensive economic, technical-technological and socio-economic process aimed at transforming Vietnamese production and society from the backward agricultural level to the industrial level technology is increasingly advanced, modern, and civilized. The article clarifies the content and characteristics of industrialization and modernization in Vietnam today.

Ho Chi Minh democracy method with development of democracy in Vietnam today

Ho Chi Minh's democratic method is a matter of profound significance in both theory and practice, which has been interested in domestic and foreign researchers, studied, approached, and exploited in many different aspects and angles. Based on clarifying traditional democratic methods and methods, this study has analyzed the core contents of Ho Chi Minh's democratic method, the process of promoting democracy in Vietnamese society today. Keywords: Ho Chi Minh, democratic methods and methods, promoting democracy.

Lurkers or posters? How teacher identity influences self-presentation on social networking sites

ABSTRACT The ways in which educational practitioners represent themselves on social networking sites (SNSs) continue to provoke discussion and potential controversy. This study investigates how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in Vietnam manage their self-presentations within SNSs for professional learning purposes. Participants in this mixed methods study included 19 teachers in four focus-group interviews, and 393 respondents to an online survey. We applied teacher identity to interpreting teachers’ self-presentation on virtual platforms. Our findings reveal that although participants frequently use SNSs for professional learning, they prefer a lurking presence and less visible interaction. It is also evident that self-presentation on SNSs is not simply ‘represented’ or ‘reflected’. Rather, these teachers prefer their self-presentation to fit with how they are perceived in Vietnamese society. Teachers’ self-presentation within SNSs is thus robustly mediated by culture. The study contributes to the ongoing interest in teachers’ increasing use of SNSs in their professional lives.

Пути влияния конфуцианской этики на современное вьетнамское общество

Confucianism in general, and Confucian ideals in particular, which arrived in Vietnam in the first cen- turies of our era, were accepted by our Vietnamese dynasties and have served as ideological functions for a long time. Furthermore, Confucian morality has played a significant role in Vietnamese tradi- tional life. Additionally, Confucian virtues have had a long-standing influence on Vietnamese society. It has had a beneficial and detrimental impact on public life since its inception. The purpose of the article is to examine the tactics of Confucian politics’ influence on modern Viet- namese society and our societal problems. The rel- evance of customs, traditions, and beliefs, as well as the cult of ancestor worship, is highlighted; the value of moral education in the family is empha- sized; and the influence of public opinion is being highly considered. Along with that, the impact of Confucian principles on Vietnamese society is ex- amined, both through the institutions of communal self-government in villages and communes and through policy implementation. The author points out various inconsistencies between Confucian principles and modern Vietnamese society. Further modernization, according to the author, should be accomplished not by shattering the ideals embod- ied in Vietnamese society or by Confucianism’s standards, but by adapting their individual provi- sions to the needs of the present.

Features of International Publications in Vietnamese Radiological Societies after The Enactment of 37/2018/QĐ-TTg.

Background:In Vietnam, after the enactment of 37/2018/QĐ-TTg, a distinct shift could be observed in the international publications by radiological societies.Objctive:This study examined trends in the international publications achieved by Vietnamese radiological societies following the enactment of 37/2018/QĐ-TTg.Methods:This retrospective study evaluated data that are freely accessible and available online and, therefore, did not require institutional review board approval. We assessed the publication characteristics of the members of four Vietnamese radiological societies: Vietnamese Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (VSRNM, n = 67); Radiological Society of Ho Chi Minh City (RSHCM, n = 25); Vietnamese Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (VSUM, n = 29); and Vietnamese Society of Interventional Radiology (VSIR, n = 18), following the enactment of 37/2018/QĐ-TTg.Results:Following the enactment of 37/2018/QĐ-TTg, we observed that total publications, number of first authors, number of last authors, number of articles indexed in Web of Science, and number of articles indexed in Scopus were significantly higher for the VSRNM and VSIR than for the RSHCM and VSUM. All publication parameters were significantly higher men, individuals who secured professorship, PhD and Master’s degree holders, public hospital employees, those in the radiological field, and those in the north and south regions, compared with the values for women, individuals without professorships, Specialist II and I degree holders, private hospital employees, those in the nuclear medicine field, and those in the middle region, respectively.Conclusion:The enactment of 37/2018/QĐ-TTg triggered a new trend in international publication among the members of four Vietnamese radiological societies. However, strong discrepancies remain in total publications, number of first authors, number of last authors, number of articles indexed in Web of Science, and number of articles indexed in Scopus among the members of the four main Vietnamese radiological societies.

The Vietnamese Buddhist revival movement in the first half of the twentieth century: comparing three associations the Cochinchina Buddhist Association, the Annam Buddhist Association, the Tonkin Buddhist Association

The Buddhist revival movement in the first half of the twentieth century took place in all 3 regions in the territory of Vietnam today. The Buddhist revival movement in each region has the same purpose, even though it has some different features. The Buddhist revival movement in Southern Vietnam was characterized by divergence, otherwise, it in Central and Northern Vietnam was characterized by convergence. In this article, we choose to compare the typical associations of the three regions are The Cochinchina Buddhist Association, The Annam Buddhist Association, The Tonkin Buddhist Association. Despite establishing in the same period of time, these three associations have many fundamental differences besides some similarities. Based on the exploitation of Buddhist archives and press materials during the period of revival, this article will research the similarities and differences between associations. Comparing the three associations not only shows us the unique characteristics of each other and explains the performance of the societies, the depth of the revival activity but also helps us to understand some of the Vietnamese society in the French period. Because this is a big problem, within a small article we cannot present all the characteristics. So in this article, we only focus on analyzing the typical characteristics, these characteristics will govern the performance of the associations. Besides, the article also limited the time to research from 1930 to 1945, when Vietnam gained independence.

Viewpoints on humans in the philosophy of Confucianism and lessons for Vietnam today

Human position in society was one of the critical topics that attracted philosophers' attention in ancient China. Confucianism had systematic views on the human's role and position in social stabilization. The article aims to analyze the essential characteristics of the viewpoint on humans in Confucianism's philosophy before the Qin dynasty, such as the unity between politics and morality, the humanity in the promotion of moral rule, human civilization. These views still have influences on upholding culture as the spiritual foundation of today's Vietnamese society. This study used a qualitative research methodology through deriving from the literature and examinations of secondary resources to find out these influences. Research results show that Vietnam today is taking the people's legitimate interests and aspirations as a premise for building national solidarity, developing education and training for the development of the knowledge economy, and a lesson about focusing on people's livelihood. Although there are limitations of the times, such as discrimination of caste and status, fate, and human nature are subject to a priori idealism, the philosophy of Confucianism still has specific Vietnamese values in the current society.

The need for evaluation and review of life values in Vietnamese prose after Doi Moi from the perspectives of writer characters

The year 1986 marked an important milestone in Vietnamese society, creating important changes in all fields including literature. The article explores the need to review and re-evaluate life values Vietnamese prose in post-Doi Moi era from perspective of the writer characters system. Viewed from this type of character, it is possible to understand more about the cognitive needs of the authors, namely the writer's need to show their social responsibility, their awareness of the current state of the country, and their search for new art forms. By surveying a number of typical works that build the image of writer characters, the article aims to contribute to affirming the spirit of self-awareness in Vietnamese literature after Doi Moi.

High diversity of blaNDM-1-encoding plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from neonates in a Vietnamese hospital

ObjectivesThe carbapenemase-encoding gene blaNDM-1 has been reported in Vietnam during the last 10 years, and blaNDM-producing Enterobacteriaceae are now silently and rapidly spreading. A key factor behind dissemination of blaNDM-1 is plasmids, mobile genetic elements that commonly carry antibiotic resistance genes and spread via conjugation. The diversity of blaNDM-1-encoding plasmids from neonates at a large Vietnamese hospital was characterized in this study. Methods18 fecal Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella quasipneumoniae isolates collected from 16 neonates at a large pediatric hospital in Vietnam were studied using optical DNA mapping (ODM) and next-generation sequencing (NGS). Plasmids carrying the blaNDM-1 gene were identified by combining ODM with Cas9 restriction. The plasmids in the isolates were compared to investigate whether the same plasmid was present in different patients. ResultsAlthough the same plasmid was found in some isolates, ODM confirmed that there were at least 10 different plasmids encoding blaNDM-1 among the 18 isolates, thus indicating wide plasmid diversity. The ODM results concur with the NGS data. Interestingly, some isolates had two distinct plasmids encoding blaNDM-1 that could be readily identified with ODM. The coexistence of different plasmids carrying the same blaNDM-1 gene in a single isolate has rarely been reported, probably because of limitations in plasmid characterization techniques. ConclusionsThe plasmids encoding the blaNDM-1 gene in this study cohort were diverse and may represent a similar picture in Vietnamese society. The study highlights important aspects of the usefulness of ODM for plasmid analysis.

A Short Story as a Special Genre of Vietnamese National Literature

There is still a gap between prosperous foundation of national literary heritage, its genre diversity and real practical understanding of its value for society development and national identification. The article is deals with to the study of the short Vietnamese story as a genre of Vietnamese literature, its history, specifics, and the current stage of development. The purpose of the research is to study the short Vietnamese story as a national genre of Vietnamese literature, periodization, identification of its features. In this study, several methods of scientific research were used. Historical and comparative analysis, with the help of which it is possible to identify the features of the genre under study by establishing similarities and differences with other genres, to identify the stages of its development in the historical context; and empirical analysis to summarize, classify and describe the results obtained. The contribution of the study is to present the history of the Vietnamese short story as a genre of Vietnamese literature, reveal its specifics, features due to the cultural and religious basis, the historical heritage of the country and socio-economic development. The periodization of the genre evolution is carried out. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the current stage short story development. The author shows the transformation of the genre, reveals new features inherent in the genre of the modern short Vietnamese story, related to the socio-economic development of Vietnam and the echoes of the military events of the mid-XX century. Namely, the approach to realism and showing the true emotions of the hero. We show that it is the analysis of literary works of this genre that can become an important element, which can help to preserve the depth and beauty of literature, to maintain the continuity of generations. This is especially important in the context of globalization and the erosion of traditional cultural values in Vietnamese society.