Study on the status of nutrition and its related factors in 276 mothers and 295 children under 5 years old, in which 77.9% were minority at Viet Lam commune, Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang province from November 2002 to August 2003. The results: 33% of mothers having child under 5 years old were being chronic energy deficiency, in which Kinh ethnic was 31.1%, minority was 33.5%. The malnutrition’s rate of child under 5 years old was 37% (in which the prevalence of malnutrition of Kinh ethnic was 26.2%, minority was 40%). Related factors to the status of nutrition included: low income, low cultural level, mothers were being chronic energy deficiency, the period of time to feed supplement and wean for children not irrational
Nutritional Status ; Malnutrition ; Woman ; Child

A cross-sectional examination of 55 points of street foods in Thai Nguyen city was carried out, the results showed that 54.55% of samples of drinking water, 27.7% of samples of kitchen tools, 18.8% of samples taken from staffs hand and 52.73% of samples prepared foods were contaminated with microbiological agents (the main was E.coli) and did not meet hygienic national standards.
Food Contamination ; Food

The study was conducted from 1994 to 1996 on ethnic Tµy, S¸n D×u, M«ng, M­êng, Th¸i, and GiÊy. Method of cross-sectional study was used. Results showed that the primary health care activity in minor ethnic communities is poor. Economic, social, and cultural conditions remained to be at low level. Average income was only equal 149 kg of rice/person/year (M«ng). Rate of illiteracy has been high in adults. Rate of illness persons who visited to health facilities has been low. Maternal and children health care and family planing activities have been not good. Infection and parasite related diseases are commonest. In children, malnutrition is leading in 10 common medical conditions, followed by goitre
Delivery of Health Care ; Disease ; Ethnic Groups

A study conducted in a mountainous commune with ethnic minorities by some interventing measures including broadcasting, training for key cadres, determination of monitoring regime that affecting on the householder and women having children under 5 years, commune health and communal administrative management. During 2 years, the enviromental sanitary and health at intervented hamlet have been significantly inproved compared with these in the normal hamlets. 1856 Khæng ThÞ H¬n, TrÞnh H÷u V¸ch, Lª ThÞ TuyÕt: Interventing effectiveness of public health and enviromental sanitation education on the intestinal parasitic infection controll at a commune in Thai Binh province. Vn J Prev Med 2002; 12(3): 65-68: (CIMSI)
Hygiene ; Ethnic Groups

An observational study conducted at 10 Northern mountainous provinces revealed that most of these provinces lacked health workers working in preventive medicine compared with criteria of Ministry of Health. Qualification of the current health workers was still limited: most of them did not have college degrees, some of them graduated from college, particularly. Few staffs had post-graduated level. The preferred fields for training preventive health staff of these provinces mainly are epidemiology, public health, nutrition and food safety, and environmental health. The preferred degrees include professional I, professional II and master degrees but not for PhD degree. It is that the priority should be for training and upgrading health workers to college level, and plans for more staffs in preventive medicine field, with more emphasis on training them for college and post- graduated.
Preventive Medicine ; Health, Preventive Health Services ; Medical Staff