With the aim of investigation about the real situation of environment of farmers's houses in On Luong - Phu Luong - Thai Nguyen province, a cross-sectional and retrospective study was carried out. The results showed that: The environment in house and breeding facilities area is seriously contaminated by several factors such as human and animal waste, short distance from bleeding facilities to the house ect... The authors recommended that ; environment of farmers’ house, raising domestic cattle’s and poultries should be improved, primary health care should be applied more often for all farmers of this area.
Environment ; Cattle ; Poultry

Protecliv is one of products of the National Project-2003 were tested before approval. This product was manufactored by The Central Pharmaceutical Company No1. The role of the Protecliv were investigated in protection against INH and RIF-induced hepatotoxicity in young rats. All drugs were administered orally in suspension form over one week. These results suggested that , INH-RIF-induced hepatotoxicity can be prevented by Protecliv at the two levels of the dose. The significant hepatoprotective dose of this compound was 250 and 500mg/kg wb/day (p<0.01) according the level of the used dose.
Protective Agents ; Liver ; Animal Experimentation

Study on impact of work environment and examination on health status of 117 male workers in workshop of “Mai Dong” Company showed that these workers have to work in the heat stress environment with hazard factor lavels are higher than allowed standard such as noise, dust concentration, toxic gases (CO, SO2, NOx..) Almost workers were suffer from diseases as E.N.T, tooth and face, lung disease, eyes. From study measures are suggested to protect and take of workers.
Environment ; Health

We had studied in 60 patients with herpes zoster in Friendship Hospital and recognised that: men is 83.33%, women 16.67%, mean age was 65.42 ±7.18 mean duration of viral infection was 5.7 ±2.75 days. The sites most affected were thoracic (45%), cranial (23.4%), lumbar (15%), sacral (8.3%), and others (8.3%). We also used Acyclovir to treat 60 patients with zoster and found that: Acyclovir had good result in 89.47% and the vesibullar lesions with wet, red skin still remained in 10.53% patients. Side effects of Acyclovir were: diarrhea in 8.3%, nausea in 5% and vomiting in 3.3% patients. Acyclovir did not change renal and liver functions.
Herpes Zoster ; Aged ; Therapeutics ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Acyclovir

A study was carried out from March 2002 to May 2005 at Tu Du Hospital included 230 patients with infertility due to tubo-peritonitis to investigate the relation between the degrees of tubal damage and the out come of pregnancy after tuboplasty. Results: the intrauterine pregnancy rate in group without tubal damage (simple adnexal adhesion), with I degree, II degree, III degree was 54.09%, 39.81%, 15.57% and 4.88%, respectively and this difference is statistic significant (p=0.001). Proportion between ectopic and intrauterine pregnancy increase progressively depending to degree of tubal damage, 012, 038, 055 and 0199 respectively. Conclusion: the degrees of tubal damage related significantly to intrauterine pregnancy probability after tuboplasty.
Infertility ; Pregnancy

A study on 32 patients who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis (20 male and 10 female), from 20 to 70 years old suffered the disease from 2 to 5 years in the hospital No 354 since 2000 to 2001. Result: Treatment by medicinal herb: this disease occurs at all ages but more often in over 40 years old. The short time the patient has diseases, the better treatment results patient gets and vice versa. After 15 days of treatment continuously: no swell, pain articulation, no pain in movement, no joint stiff in the morning, no tiredness and good appetite: 93%. Archive good result for both male and female. There is only 7% who are over 40 years old and suffered the disease over 37 months has reocurred.
Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Therapeutics ; Medicine, Traditional

Since 2002, the Vietnam Commission for Population, Family and Children (VCPFC) has implemented a number of models on improvement of population quality. In 2005, the SIPFC has conducted assessment of these models. The assessment aims to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the models as to make recommendations and solutions. Quantity and quality methods are used on 295 adolescents, youth and women of reproductive ages (target audience 1) and 104 health and population workers (target audience 2). The study finds that 93.9% of target audience 1 and 94.2% of target audience 2 said the these models were necessary. Local implementation follows the plans. people’s awareness on RH/FP care is much improved. This helps reducing incidence of RTIs, STDs and social evils, ect... However, there remain constrain in the implementation. 74.6% of target audience 1 and 91.3% of target audience 2 suggested to expand these models. At the same time, IEC activities and RH/RH services should be further improved; health staff training and investments in equipment should be strengthened.
Quality of Life ; Population

Researching 485 cases of death in two years (2002-2003) at Bavi district, the findings showed that: The crude death rate in the whole of district is 5.20%o in the year 2002 and 4.68%o in the year 2003. The death rate is higher in men than women (5.66%o) compared to 4.77%o and compared to 3.62%o). YPLL in the years of 2002-2003: The burden of mortality is higher in men than women (2002: men/women = 1.24/1; 2003: men/women: 2.6/1).The burden of mortality focused on groups of under 5, over 60 and 20-60 years old. The burden of mortality in group of school ages is lowest. By group of disease, YPLL is highest at external causes (death from drowning, injury, accident).
Death ; Epidemiology

Cross-sectional study was conducted in 6 handicraft villages, 600 producing households, 1.672 handicraft employees and 135 agricultural employees. The study results showed that: 98.4% of producing households had generated hazardous factors such as noise, heat, dust, micro-organism etc. In food processing village: 83.3% of micro-climate samples and 100% of light samples exceeded the permissible limits. In mechanical villages: 100% of noise sample accessed the permissible limit. In fine arts furniture villages: 91.3% of micro-climate sample, 75% of light sample and 69.5% of dust sample exceeded the permissible limits. In general, almost of handicraft employee had poor knowledge on risk factors at workplaces and their harms. The disease prevalence of handicraft employees was 85.3% that was higher than that of agricultural employee (58,5%). The difference was statistic significant (p=0.0001; RR= 1.46). Handicraft employee liked to have healthcare services at commune’s health station or have health workers at worker place and health insurance.
Environment ; Health

A study was conducted on biological active element lactin and clean lactin-biotin from Abrus precatorius in Hung Yen province. Result: clean lactin production from abrus precatorius and combination of Lectin (APA)-biotin were used to make ELISA to realize some disease-caused bacteria. Clean lectin (APA) related specific with original sugar β- D- Gal so it is able to realize B. anthracis bacterium and B. Cereus. Lectin (APA) does not connect with S. flexneri, S. sonnei, C.diphteriae and Salmonella bacteria. The findings of trial bring the new research approach in applying lectin in immunology production to contribute in diagnosis accurately bacterium strain cause disease.
Viruses ; Lectins ; Abrus