Open AccessA collaborative effort to build an epilepsy program in central Vietnam
Author(s) -
Thi Phuoc Yen Tran,
Van Tri Truong,
Dinh Toan Nguyen,
Duy Nguyen,
Alain Bouthillier,
Dang Khoa Nguyen
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.138
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1823-6138
DOI - 10.54029/2021zsu
Subject(s) - epilepsy , intractable epilepsy , population , medicine , developing country , business , economic growth , environmental health , psychiatry , economics
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a developing country with an estimated population of 96.2 million as of 2019. The prevalence rate of epilepsy is between 4.4 and 14 per 1000 population. The care of epileptic patients in Vietnam is suboptimal for many reasons: insufficient resources, poor infrastructure, lack of education (to both patients and physicians), and inadequate offer of medical and surgical treatment options for epilepsy.