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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Overdose beliefs and management practices among ethnic Vietnamese heroin users in Sydney, Australia | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Overdose beliefs and management practices among ethnic Vietnamese heroin users in Sydney Australia Lisa Maher 1 2 and Hien T Ho2 3 Address 1National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research Sydney Australia 2School of Public Health and Community Medicine University of New South Wales Sydney Australia and 3Hanoi School of Public Health Hanoi Vietnam Email Lisa Maher - L.Maher@unsw.edu.au Hien T Ho - hth1@hsph.edu.vn Corresponding author Open Access Published 27 April 2009 Received 10 March 2009 Accepted 27 April 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009 6 6 doi 10.1186 1477-7517-6-6 This article is available from http www.harmreductionjournal.cOm content 6 1 6 2009 Maher and Ho licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background Ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users IDUs in Australia draw on a range of beliefs and etiologic models sometimes simultaneously in order to make sense of health and illness. These include understandings of illness as the result of internal imbalances and Western concepts of disease causation including germ pollution theory. Methods Observational fieldwork and in-depth interviews were conducted between 2001 and 2006 in neighbourhoods characterised by high proportions of Asian background IDUs and streetbased drug markets. Eligibility criteria for the study were 1 ethnic Vietnamese cultural background 2 aged 16 years and over and 3 injected drugs in the last 6 months. Results Participants commonly attempted to treat heroin overdose by withdrawing blood rút máu from the body. Central to this practice are cultural beliefs about the role and function of blood in
