43 cases of eclampsia had been treated during 5 years (1994- 1998) in Hai Phong Obst/Gyn hospital with an incidence of 1.5% total pregnancies, and toxemia of pregnancy was 9.12% pregnancies. 70% of the patients located in rural areas, primipara was 62.8%, manual laboures: 74%, eclampsia appears in every season but frequently in winter- spring: 67.4%. * Treatment: the principal treatment included: magnesium sulfate for anticonvulsion, vasodilators for antihypertension. Cesarean section: 13 cases (30.2%). * Newborns: 50% of the babies were under 2,500 g of weight, its death rate: 9.3% (focus on the low weight births). *Conclusion -Eclampsia appears in every season especially in Winter- Spring. -The appearance is in the manual labourers and in the countyside livings.
Uterine Rupture ; epidemiology

All human activity, including health care activity are strictly corelated with the relation between individual and social community. This relation must be harmonised in resfect of the equality. It is the criterion to appreciate the superiosity of any healthcare service. In our system health education and the organization must be paralelly conducted
Delivery of Health Care ; Health ; Health Systems Plans

From total dried extract extracted by methanol from roots of Nho dong (Morinda longisima Y.Z.Ruan, Rubiaceae) that was gathered in Chieng An commune, Son La town in Apr 2002, a compound called CP2 was isolated through chromatography. Spectral analyses showed CP2 was a coumarin named as Scopoletin. This was the first time Scopoletin found in root of Nho dong
Scopoletin ; Plants, medicinal ; Medicine, Traditional

When coming a innovative period, we mentioned directly the issues of health economics and health care finance, but this approach just only generalized that not enough thoroughness to overcome many challenges from dark side of market economy. If these issues weren’t paid attention, Vietnamese public health could be inconsiderable, arbitrary, and lack of method and thriftiness
Delivery of Health Care ; Vietnam ; Professional Practice ; Politics

The health service system planning and implementing is as important as working out the plan of campaign. It's necessary to appreciate and improve this work if we really want to develop Vietnam health service system in the right and methodical direction, and in global integration. In the short term, we should learn about and have a firm grasp on health indices and targets of UN Millennium Development Goals, their roles in sustainable development. On this foundation, it's necessary to consider adding or cutting some indices in order to reflect comprehensively and completely the truth face of healthcare system in Vietnam
Delivery of Health Care ; Health Services ; Indicators and Reagents

Choleretic and inflammatory effect of dried extract of Morinda longissima roots were tested in primari pig and rats. Dried extract of ML 0,67g/kg/daily exerts choleretic effect in rat, enhanced the bile flow after the 1st, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th 30 minutes by 34,88%; 30,77%; 27,03% and 43,75% respectively in comparing with the control in guinea-pig, dried extract of ML 1g/kg/daily exerts anti inflamatory effect, minimizing the swelling mass by 26,16% in comparison with the control
Cholagogues and Choleretics ; Anti-Inflammatory Agents ; Morinda

When confronted with situation of rapid development of HIV/AIDS pandemic, there was a solution called 'harm reduction' for decrease the transmission of HIV. This article explained why we have to do this solution, and introduce the contents of solution: to educate and exchange experiences through peer education; provide HIV voluntary counseling and test, help HIV/AIDS infected people being aware of their situation and received useful advice; guide them using safe syringe; prevent STDs by using condom; introduce and use heroine-replacement drugs. Finally, authors also mentioned advantages of using 'harm reduction' solution
HIV ; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; Disease Outbreaks

After 10 years of implementation the 4th resolution of the Party Centre Committee, session VII, the Health sector had received many significant results. The health care system had established throughout the country, especially the grass roat health care level from stood at "the abyss of collapsing" to little by little recoverd and gradually developed. Otherwise, the Health sector remained some issues, such as the price of medical services was not calculated; The financial resources of the hospitals was not substainable and always in deficiciency in this conditions, it was said that it should changed from the form that the State had supplied the finances for the health care units to the forms of subsidy to the users by buying health insurance or health services
Delivery of Health Care ; Hospitals, Public ; Materials Management, Hospital

The conception of health care or health services socialization was the first mentioned in the resolution of the fourth conference held by the seventh Party Central Committee. In the last twelve years, we reached many achievements in order to translate the policy of health services socialization into reality: People have many improvements in terms of self-defense consciousness and health care. There are many new organizational forms: health insurance, charity fund, health care fund for the poor. Besides public health establishments, there are many private health establishments with various economic forms. However, the socialization of health services has many limits: the contrary of market mechanism put new pressures on health sector. On the other hand, health establishments lack of budget to pay essential health services
Health Services ; Socialization

To evaluate user fee the situation of, in 2001, at the Khammouane provincial hospital Lao PDR by a cross study. 109 in-patients and 204 out- patients were interviewed and, 20 groups of health staffs were discussed and the information (2001) on statistic, finances and exemptions in the hospital office were analyzed. The results showed that: With the minus government budget, the very low fees and many free services, the quality of the health service is not progressive and it is very difficult to apply the exemptions. The rate of using the patients' bed is very low because both the rich and poor patients don't like to take health care in this hospital. When the patients come to hospital, all of them prepare enough money to pay because they don't know who will be exemption. If they can't get enough money, they don't come yet. Both the patients and health staffs accepted the low user fees but the providers need to raise the quality of health services and apply better the exemptions. The very low fees and many free services in the hospital aren't the suitable solution to help the poor patients can take health care when the another sources can't supply sufficiently for these services.
Hospitals ; Health Services