This is a cross sectional study, including quantitative (household survey) and qualitative methods (indept- interview) on 699 people of 157 household living at Cau Giay district. Findings reveal that few people used medical care at the centers (4.3%), the self-medicated rate was highest (42.3%), then the rate of using private services: 27.7% and using services of higher referral levels: 16.7%... Quality and favorable of services, and level of illness... had major influenced to the choices of healthcare services
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services ; Delivery of Health Care ; Medical Staff

Milk supplementation in 3 months had improved the nutritional status of infant in term of physical growth, hemoglobin and serum albumin level, as well as acute respiratory infection status. The prevalence of underweight grade 1 reduced from 83.1% to 13.6%, underweight grade 2 reduced from 15.3% to 6.8% and there was no case of severe malnutrition. Hemoglobin level increased from 8.961.04 g/dl to 11.21.15 g/dl and serum albumin increased from 3.940.62g/dl to 4.790.42g/dl. The prevalence of acute respiratory infection reduced from 84.7- 27.1%.
Efficacy of the food supplementation for children with poor nutritional status and acute respiratory tract infection

The duration of starting the complement eating was an initial duration of growth of children. Many studies showed that children's slow development occurred within 6-18 months and following. The diet and other intervention impacted significantly on the intervention of children development during this period.
Dietary Supplements ; Child

The survey on 404 infants under twelve months in the 4 rural communes in Ninh Thanh district, Hai Hung province showed that high prevalence of underweight (14.6%), acute respiratory infection (84.7%) among the subjects. The main reason is low education level of the mother, low birth weight, lack of breast milk, early giving supplementary food, poor quality of supplementary food. The nutrition education and communication had improved the nutritional knowledge of these mothers.
Nutrition ; Mothers ; Infant

66 strains of heamophilus influenzae and 50 strains of streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from nasopharyngeal aspirates from 161 patients under 5 years old with ARI at the Viet Nam - Cu Ba Hospital, Ha Noi, during 9/1997 to 9/1998. 13 antibiotics were tested using the disk diffusion method. H.influenzae is still susceptible to cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, quinolones (95-100%). S.pneumoniae is also susceptible to cephalosporins (82-100%).
Respiratory Tract Infections ; child ; Helicobacter pylori

Outline on the antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated during 1989-1995 in Viet Nam based on the data of antimicrobial susceptibility tests of NIHE and ASTS project. Comparing to the data from countries in South East Asis/India we found that: Str.pneumoniae is still susceptible to benzylpenicillin. B-lactams, macrolides, chloramphenicol. In many countries the reported incidence of drug-resistant Str.Pneumoniae has increased in the last year. The frequency and patterns of resistance vary in different geographic regions, countries and over different periods.
Drug Resistance ; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Across-sectional study was carried out in infants, at 7 communes of Ninh Thanh district, H¶i H­ng province, from 1995-1996. The methods for data collection were Anthopometric measurements, dietary assessment by 24 hour food recall method, clinical examination, and interview of the mothers by close ended questionnaires. The results of the study as follows: (1) Poor nutritional status was accompanied by high prevalence of acute respiratory infections (ARI). Interview of the history of diseases showed that poorer nutritional status was higher prevalence of acute respiratory infection (ARI). (2) Mean of energy intake per child per day of the children who suffered from lower and upper ARI was significantly different from the health children. The energy intake was different among three groups which have different nutritional status, but no significantly. (3) Protein and lipid intake of the children suffered from lower and upper ARI were significant lower than the healthy children. (4) Children suffered from lower and upper ARI had vitamin A intake was significant lower than the healthy children. The mean of Vitamin A intake of children suffered from mild, moderate and normal was significant different from each other.
Nutritional Status ; Diet ; Respiratory Tract Infections ; Infant

A retrospective study was carried out in 34 chronic myeloid leukemia patients, who were followed up from the beginning stage of the disease throughout natural history of the disease. The result shows the follows: the percentage of transformation into acute myeloid leukemia was 86.7%, the percentage of transformation into acute lymphocytic leukemia was 13.3%. The median length of chronic phase was 28.9 months. The median survival was 33.6 months (52.4% patients have survived more than 52 months). Main cause of death in chronic phase was emboli due to hyperleucocytic syndrome
Leukemia, Myeloid ; Hydroxyurea ; therapeutics

The aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of hydroxyurea in treating CML patients in chronic phase. The result of the research shows that the induction treatment with hydroxyurea with initial dose of 40-60mg/kg body weight daily radically improves hematological condition for CML patients in chronic phase. All patients (42 patients) reached hematological remission (33.3% patients reached complete remission), 66.7% patients reached partial remission WBC decrease from 193.9117.7 g/l to 10.16.0 g/l. Percentage of myeloblast, promyelocyte, myelocyte and metamyelocyte in peripheral blood decrease from 35.08.0% to 6.96.6%. Hemoglobin concentration increase from 86.119.0 g/l to 96.013.3 g/l, RBC increase from 2.90.7 T/l to 3.20.5 T/l. The follow up during the time of induction treatment shows that main hematological indicators have changed gradually when approaching normal physiological values
Leukemia ; Hydroxyurea ; therapeutics

The study was carried out on 61 chronic myelo-granulocytic leukemia (CML) patients aimed to investigate the cytological features of peripheral blood. The results showed that all patients had laboratory features of normocytic and normochromic anemia (RBC counts: 2.8T/L +/- SD 0.59). All patients have increased WBC and platelet counts (WBC count: 210.5G/L +/- SD 101.0, platelet count: 624.3G/L +/- SD 431.9). The differentiated white cells showed all types of granulocytic cell (myeloblast 1.5%, promyelocytes 4%, myelocytes 15.5%, metamyelocytes 14.8%, band forms 7.1%, segmented neutrophils 44.9%, basophils 3.3%, eosinophils 2.4%, lymphocytes 5.4%, monocytes 0.1%) with the increase on absolute number and percentage of basophil and eosinophil. However, there was no elevation in myelocyte count compared with metamyelocyte count
Leukemia ; diagnosis ; Cytology ; blood