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This research is conducted to describe the actual situation of environmental hygiene behavior of ethnic minorities in particularly difficult communes of Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province, to build a model of community mobilization to improve environmental hygiene behavior for people in Cay Thi commune, Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province and to assess the effectiveness of the model for improving sanitation behavior for ethnic minorities in Cay Thi commune after two years of implementation. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Hue University, N0 61, 2010 RESEARCH ON ACTIONS OF COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION TO IMPROVE SANITATION ENVIRONMENT FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT REGION OF DONG HY DISTRICT, THAI NGUYEN Dam Khai Hoan Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hoang Anh Tuan Thai Nguyen Medical College SUMMARY A two year- study on community mobilization for improving people’s behavior on environmental hygiene in minority ethnic community at remote and disadvantage region in Cay Thi Commune, Dong Hy district, Thai nguyen province. The findings are (1) the model of interbranches in community and responsibility shared with health personnel in communicating to improve the people’s behavior on environmental hygiene, combine the task of each member of stake holder. The model had been set up the concrete duties and tasks to ensure their task as well as the integration of communication of environmental hygiene, (2) the findings show that there are the changes in people’s behavior on environmental hygiene in Cay Thi Commune, the knowledge is increased 63%, attitude is increased 33, 2%, practice is increased 14, 5%. The interventional effectiveness is knowledge on environmental hygiene (323%), practice (253%) and attitude (206%). After intervention in Cay Thi Commune, there are changes clearly, especially in building and using hygiene latrines, built hygiene latrines are increased (26, 5% households), the interventional effectiveness is 217, 22%. The recommendations: This model is good solution, feasibility and need to be applied and continue to study by certain local authority and health system. Key words: The community mobilization; the environmental hygiene; the minority ethnic community. 1. Introduction Environmental hygiene is a problem that is not only of interest in the scope of a country or a region, but also a matter of concern on a global scale because of its importance to human health. Implementing good environmental hygiene to improve the health
