Study of 330 samples of smokers selected from smoking population living in Da Nang city. This was a cross-sectional study. Result: The mean age of smokers was 20.5+/-13.5 years old and each consumed 13.1+/-7.7 cigarettes per day. The harms of tobacco on health of the smoker’s health included 61.8% of pneumonia, 30.1% of bronchitis, 17.9% of chronic lung diseases, 2.8% of ARI, 31.0% of lung cancers, 17.6% of cardiovascular diseases, and 14.4% of neurological disorders. Main sources of information providing to smokers with the knowledge of tobacco's harms from broadcasting and television and warning on the package was very limited.
Smoking ; Health ; Knowledge

Background: Medical research is undoubtedly an essential tool in improving health care. Thus, every resident physician should participate in health research activities to keep his knowledge and training up-to-date. Although research is incorporated in residency training, several studies have shown that much is still lacking in terms of the residents’ knowledge, attitude, and practices in research. Objective: To determine the knowledge, attitude, practices, and barriers in conducting research among resident physicians in Cagayan Valley Medical Center. Methods: This study utilized a descriptive survey design. Purposive sampling with total enumeration was done. A total of 108 resident trainees were included in the study. Validated questionnaires were used to assess the residents’ knowledge, attitude, practices, and barriers in conducting research. Results: The level of research knowledge of the resident trainees is below average, and their overall research practice is poor. On the contrary, the residents’ attitude towards research is positive. The residents’ level of research knowledge significantly differed across age (p=0.010) and year level (p=0.012). The trainees’ research attitude significantly differed in terms of current involvement in research (p=0.048). The top three barriers identified were lack of research training and skills, insufficient time allotted for research, and lack of statistical support. Conclusion There is a need to fill the gap between the residents’ positive attitude and their below average level of knowledge and poor practice in research. Addressing the barriers in conducting research is also needed to improve the overall standards of research among the residents.
Attitude ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Knowledge

Background: Child health care practices in the context of households and community is an important factor to improving the health of children. Some indexes were proposed by the World Health Organization to evaluate these practices. Objectives: To describe the knowledge and practice of pregnant women, under-5-year-old children\u2019s health care and assess the application of the survey toolkit in evaluating various indexes of healthcare practice at family and community levels. Subjects and method: By employing a structured interview, this cross-sectional survey has been conducted in Tu Liem district - Hanoi city and Tien Hai district \u2013 Thai Binh province. 120 mothers of under-5-year-old children participated in the survey. Results:98% of mothers had at least 3 antenatal visits during pregnancy. The rate of complete tetanus vaccination reached 43.3% in Tu Liem and 65% in Tien Hai. Prevalence of infant with low birth weight for age accounted for 8.3% in both districts. The percentage of children given complementary feeding at age of 6 to 9 months as the National Nutrition Program recommendations was only 30%. 65.7% and 68.5% of under-2-year-old children in Tu Liem and Tien Hai were breastfed within the first 30 minutes after delivery. There were a small proportion of mothers who gave complementary food either too early or too late, 8.3% and 8.4% in Tu Liem, 6.7% and 6.6% in Tien Hai, respectively. More than 90% of children were given normal feeding as usual during last their illness, but only 50% of children were given more fluid than usual. 98.2% of mothers knew 2 signs to immediately bring the child to health facilities. The most common injuries in under-5-year-old children were animal bites (62.5%) and falling (31.3%), however only 62.5% of mothers knew at least two measures of injury prevention. Conclusion: The toolkit for collecting data of practical index assessment can be applied at communes.
child health care ; practice ; knowledge

Through the study of 980 Khmer pupils of 2 groups of schools at Kien Giang province, results showed that: in the intervened group mainly by health education, the pupils' knowledge, attitudes and practice are significantly better than before the intervention
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; pupil

A cross-sectional study on 998 households in Phu linh and Duc hoa communes, Soc son district, Hanoi has shown that there were a big diversity between knowledge and practice as well as between attitude and practice of people in the consultation and treatment by health insurance card at CHS. The role of village health workers should be strengthened.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; insurance

The data was collected from a survey about KAS (knowledge-attitude-practice) of 800 people lived in Tan Thinh and Linh Son communes of Thai Nguyen province. It was showed that the level of knowledge about tuberculosis of people remained to be low. Rate of people who have moderate and poor knowledge was still high, made up to 80.9%. The perception about tuberculosis was closely related to factors such as ethnic, education level, sex, geography and communication. The authors recommended that the community health services in Thai Nguyen province need to strengthen the health education for people, especially for ethnic minorities, women, low educated people as well as for people who lived in the remote areas
Tuberculosis ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Survey of 140 Khmer monks after the health education classes at 27 pagodas in Kien Giang province in 1999-2002. . The result showed that: the rate of trained monk’s right answer is four folds higher than wrong answer. And the trained monk’s knowledlege, attitude and practice have been improved. Before these classes are opened, the rate of right answer is only from 10% to 20%. These monks eagerly offered their medical awareness to Khmer people who visited the pagodas. It is obvious that these classes brought practical efficiency and should be expanded to other areas having a lot of Khmer people
Health Education ; Knowledge ; Data Collection

Forty-six heads of health stations in Vinh Bao and Tien Lang – Hai Phong City were interviewed to evaluate knowledge, skill and practice in managing the primary health care work based on already designed questionnaire by using the cross – sectional study. There were only 8.7% of heads of health stations who knew to combine 3 factors: norms from higher level, needs from community and health stations’ capacity to finish plans. There were only 17.4% of them knowing how supervision and evaluation are. Health service information management was still weak both on quality and quantity. Reasons resulting to weak primary health care management: - Heads to health stations need to be trained adequately about management. - Administrative subsidies based on norms directed from the higher level were an obstacle to make plans. - Retraining of cadres about knowledge, practice and skill on the primary health care was not frequent
Primary Health Care ; Epidemiology ; Knowledge

BACKGROUND: Current international recommendations in generating and using evidence in Health Research Priority Setting (HRPS) include the use of systematic reviews, and systematic or scientific situational analysis. In the Philippines, the Philippine National Health Research System's (PNHRS) National Guidelines for Health Research Prioritization recommends the use of either a Combined Approach Matrix (CAM) or situational analysis in generating and using evidence for HRPS. At present, there is a lack of a gold standard in generating and utilizing evidence in HRPS.

OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this paper is to document a practical yet alternative/innovative approach on how evidence was generated and utilized in the process of HRPS as observed in the development of the National Unified Health Research Agenda (NUHRA) in the Philippines. Specifically, it identifies the types of knowledge products produced and their role in the process of health research agenda setting; how evidence was used and managed in the course of NUHRA development; and, the lessons learned from the experience.

METHODS: This case study is descriptive of the experience of generating and utilizing evidence for HRPS in the Philippines. The study utilized primary and secondary data. Knowledge Management (KM) was used as a lens to describe the process of generating and managing information for the NUHRA. Document analysis was used in comparing and aligning data with the integrated KM framework.

RESULTS: Pre-selected data were captured and created; shared and disseminated; and subsequently acquired and applied voluntarily by stakeholders during the process of HRPS. Relevant data was presented into various information products designed with a specific stakeholder in mind. Technical papers were developed to cater to national level stakeholders and focused on broad, nationally-relevant issues. Regional situational analysis reports focused on regional and local data and were designed for regional stakeholders to use during the development of Regional Unified Health Research Agenda (RUHRA). Infographics were developed to present the findings of the technical papers creatively and concisely and the NUHRA methodology and were presented to both national and regional stakeholders. The RUHRAs and the NUHRA were the outputs of the health research prioritization activities and will be made available through local and national channels of the PNHRS.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Opportunities for formalization and institutionalization of knowledge management for generating and using evidence in HRPS may be explored to address health information fragmentation across the health research system.

Communication Health Education (CHE) is the cheap sollution but it achieves high level of effectiveness and sustain in health care. In this study, we applied a new model of CHE-Club “Woman for health and environment". Objectives: assessing effectiveness of applying the Club "Woman for health and environment" on people's knowledge and practices for environmental hygiene in Minh Khai precinct, Phu Ly town. Method and subjects: Interventive study with 2 groups (case and control). Study subjects include: households and women representing the households. The sample size for each group is 250. Assessing efficiency based on efficiency index. Results and conclude: The club “Woman for environmental health" resulted in improvement on people's knowledge and practices of environmental hygiene. The knowledge and practices have improved significantly comparing to before intervention and are much higher than in the control group (the efficiency indices achieve 22.7-187.9%).
Health Education, Knowledge, Public Health Practice, Women