這篇綜說中，作者旨在讓讀者熟悉越南這個國家，以及越南民眾的精神醫療與精神衛生 照顧。作者首先鳥瞰越南的地理、歷史、和文化，以及越南精神醫療發展史。接下來，作者 分別介紹了目前越南精神專科醫院的系統、精神醫療人力資源和培訓、社區精神衛生的國家 計劃、越南精神醫學的國際合作、以及越南的精神醫學會。 在綜論的後半部分，作者概述越 南精神健康的具體目標，並提出為達到這些目標，從中央到地方各層級，從專科醫院到綜合 醫院並延伸到社區的醫療與訓練的層面的可行策略。最後，這篇綜論將以提出越南9,400 萬 人口的未來主要精神醫療政策的發展方向做為結束。

In this overview, author is intended to familiarize the readers about Vietnam as a country and psychiatric and mental health care for her people. Birds' eyes views on the geography, history, and culture of Vietnam are first introduced. Then, the readers were oriented to a background historical description about the development history of mental health care in Vietnam. Then, the author describes current Vietnamese psychiatric hospital system, human resources and training for the mental health staff, national program for community mental health care, international cooperation of Vietnam psychiatry, as well as Vietnam Psychiatric Association. The author concludes that inspite of some recent improvement, Vietnamese still have long way to go to achieve better mental health care for people in Vietnam. Finally, the overview is ended with a perspective view of developing mental health care for the population of about 95 million in the entire Vietnam.