Background: Shoulder pain is a common secondary complication of hemiplegia patients after stroke. To treat and rehabilitate shoulder pain is not only helpful to the recovery of movements for the arms, hands and keeping balance, but also to relieve the pain for patients. Objectives: (1) To determine the prevalence, risk factors of shoulder pain of hemiplegia patients after a stroke; and (2) To assess the treatment results of shoulder pain in hemiplegia patients after a stroke. Subjects: 110 stroke-related hemiplegia patients with the mean age of 60.2 years, treated at the Rehabilitation Department, Bach Mai Hospital from March to November 2007. Method: Descriptive, prospective, interventional study. Data was analyzed by Epi-Info software, version 6.13. Results and conclusion: The prevalence of shoulder pain was 47.27%.Risk factors of shoulder pain were the level of arm movement (r= - 0.75) and duration of disease (r= 0.53). After 1 month of treatment and rehabilitation, compare with the self-exercise group. The level of arm movement and shoulder pain of the intervention group were significantly improved.
shoulder pain ; hemiplegia

The studies involved 192 workers exposured to organic solvent and have worked at least 4 years or more. Overall, in both companies, 45.6 - 46.8% of participated workers have category III of health status, 8.5-13.9% have category II and 2.53 - 4.26% have category I. The incidence of otorhinolaryngological and dentistry diseases is highest. RBC, hematocrite and platelet counts tend to decrease in comparison with general population. Mean urinary hypuric acid level in exposured workers is higher than in others. Overall, in both companies, 14.4% of workers have some degree hearing loss.
Solvents ; Health Status ; Occupational Diseases ; Hearing ; Manpower

The study was conducted to compare bioavailability of rifampicin at the same doses with and without isoniazid and pyrazinamide in the standard separate tablets in 12 healthy volunteers. Bioavailability of rifampicin was estimated by plasma concentration of rifampicin from 0h to 24h after administration. Plasma rifampicin concentration was determined by HPLC method. The results revealed that Cmax and AUC for rifampicin was reduced (31.24% and 25.95%, respectively) when rifampicin - isoniazid - pyrazinamide was administeredat the same time. It was concluded that bioavailability of rifampicin was affected by presence of isoniazid and pyrazinamide.
Tuberculosis ; Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant ; Pyrazinamide ; Rifampin ; Biological ; Availability

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

Study was performed in the mountainous district of Mai Son and the plain district of Vinh Bao. 560 health workers at commune level were interviewed by a questionnaire designed of opened and semi opened questions on the skill and the practices of these workers. The authors showed that the knowledges and the skills on health education of health workers are very limited. High percentages of them have no awareness on the skills, the contents, and the management of their duty. This issue raises the necessary of train and retrains for these health workers on health education and manage of this activity
Medical Staff, Healthy Worker Effect, Knowledge

89 male workers of vapor iron were subjected to the study. The investigation of labor evironment and worker conditions showed that: indoor temperature exceeds that of hygiene standard by 0,2-1,0oC, humidity and wind velocity is tense (2080 movement for each shift) working movement duration is short (12 second for each movement), in the shift, breaking time is insufficient to meet the need of rest. After a working day, memory, the attention, the tonus of muscle decrease dramatically in comparing with those before the shift the decrease is significant statistically. Many sites of pain occur considerably and concentrate in the nape, right arm, back, thigh and knee
Environment ; Hospitals ; Healthy Worker Effect

Working environment and worker’s health status of 2432 subjects of the factories of thread, of wearing, dying, the factory of perfectioning and garment belonging 8/3 textile company. Results showed that in most of studies places, the permissible criteria were reached, excluding some harmful factors such as temperature, wind speed, light, noise, dust concentration, nocious gas. In more than 50% of total number of workers were of 1st and 2nd grade of health, and it’s better in the male than in female subjects. The diseases of high incidence are respiratory diseases, gynecological diseases and nervous diseases and their different rates depend on the working characteristics, increasing progressively with working age
Environment ; Health Status ; Occupational Diseases

The working environment of 138 workers at Binh Dinh construction factory was studied concerning the harmful factors determined by the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Working environment. Almost harmful factors are highest then allowed standard, especially total dust (>3,7 times), high SiO2 content level 24-42%. In almost studied field, the noise density is higher than standard (90 dBA). There is a high incidence of some diseases such as stomato-dental diseases (50,27%), ENT and respiratory diseases (37,14%). Occupational safety and health care for workers were neziligible; commonly available masks for respiration are not proper for filtering the dust
Environment ; Healthy Worker Effect ; Health

Studying on clinical symptoms and respiratory function of 83 workers above 5 years professional age (86% male and 14% female) showed that there are predominantly 2 functional symptoms: chest pain and dipnoea, then sputum, cough and hemoptisis, two physical symptoms of deformity of the chest, vesicular murmur, were of higher rate. The incidence of respiratory total dysfunction accounts for 38.6% in workers. The incidence of silico-pneumoconiosis is 9.6%, mild form is common in most of workers
Pneumoconiosis ; manpower ; Occupational Diseases

The research studied practice real situation basic skills in health care for children of mothers and analysed few of factors related to lacks of knowledge, attitude and practice of the mothers. Objects were mothers having under 5 years old children. The research used descriptive method. The result showed that: Mother’s knowledge and practice by these 12 skills at both provinces achieved is low level. There are differences between mothers’s knowledge and practice. The low level of these skills and the differences showed more significantly in mountainous province. The IEC activities in both provinces showed not effectively. Local health workers did not pay enough attention to IEC, especially to counseling mothers to care healthy and sick children.
Mothers ; Child ; Delivery of Health Care