Study on 450 children at the age from 3-5 years old, 50% children go to kindergarten and 50% don’t. 40 kindergarten level staffs, 6 staffs in charge of population-family and children, 22 village level staffs, 9 village level leaders belong to the Mekong Delta. The result showed that: there was a clearly different awareness on the children‘s right as well as the importance of going to school of the parents between the parents of children who go to kindergartent and the other ones. The school issue in the Mekong Delta is imperative: lack of kindergarten: 78.7%; lack of classroom seriously: 78.4%. Lack of schools and classrooms was an important reason that children couldn’t go to school. The rate of teacher for kindergarten on over the region is high: 84.8%. The basic facilities were poor: 21.8%. It is necessary to propagandize to the family who have children in the school age. Reinforcing school, classroom and education facilities and improving teachers’ qualification and management officers should be done.
Child ; Epidemiology

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between dyslipidemia and obesity status among Viet-namese adolescents. METHODS: In this case-control study, 282 adolescents (6–11 years), including 88 obese cases and 194 normal-weight controls, were recruited from a population-based cross-sectional study from two provinces in Vietnam. The anthropometric, blood lipid, and other laboratory test results of the study subjects were analyzed. RESULTS: Obese children tended to have more visceral fat (Pearson's r = 0.795, p < 0.0001) than subcutaneous fat (Pearson's r = 0.754, p < 0.0001), and this difference was associated with an increase in blood triglyceride level (Pearson's r = 0.232, p < 0.05) and a strikingly high rate of hypertriglyceridemia (38.6%). We also found that birth weight and parental body mass index were related to the status of obesity among the study subjects. However, only birth weight was significantly higher in the obese group than in the normal weight group. These findings indicate the effect of prenatal nutrition on childhood obesity. Furthermore, high-birth weight children had a surprisingly high rate of obesity. CONCLUSION: Together, our data suggest that obesity increased the risk for hypertriglyceridemia, which was, at least partially, due to prenatal nutrition.
Adolescent ; Birth Weight ; Body Mass Index ; Case-Control Studies* ; Child ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Dyslipidemias ; Humans ; Hypertriglyceridemia* ; Intra-Abdominal Fat ; Obesity ; Parents ; Pediatric Obesity* ; Subcutaneous Fat ; Triglycerides ; Vietnam*