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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Hue University, N0 61, 2010ANEMIA IN PRIMARY SCHOOL-CHILDREN OF TWO IN NAM DONG DISTRICT, THUA THIEN HUE Thij Anh Thu, Hoang Trong Sy, Nguyen Van of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue survey carried out in 2007 of 336 highland school children in Nam Dong district,.Thua Thien Hue Province showed that the total rate of anemia was , in which it all at mild level () and moderate level (), there were no cases at the ; The malnutrition rate of children was 39%. According to the stool tests, the rate getting hookworm was the highest with . There was a significant anemia and ethnic groups (the anemia rate of the Kinh children was lower than that Catu ones). Moreover, there were other significant differences between anemia factors, including: age, nutritional status, and hookworm infection. Factors anemia were geography, household economic levels, the number of days eating meat and week, having parents working as farmers, educational levels of mothers and mother’s feeding . recent decades, although there has been a considerable change of socioeconomic conditions, anemia is still an important health issue in many rural areas in Vietnam. Particularly for school-age children, it is dangerous, and related to their physical and mental health but also affects the of the community. Thuong Nhat commune and Khe Tre town are two areas of Nam Dong district. Basically, people in both areas have a level, poor income, traditional customs and habits, topography and so on,.which restricts living environment, hygienic conditions, and children’s health. Therefore,.objectives of this study are to Determine the rate of anemia of primary school Thuong Nhat commune and Khe Tre Town of Nam Dong district, Thua Thien , compare this rate of the Katu ethnic group to the Kinh and Find out between anemia and some factors on this . . study was conducted in primary schools of Thuong Nhat commune and town of Nam Dong district, Thua Thien Hue province. 336 pupils randomly EPI INFO statistical software were evaluated, included 164 pupils of Thuong primary school and 172 Khe Tre Town primary pupils. The study from June to September, . Research was a cross-sectional surveyChildren’s weight and height was measured to examine the nutritional conditionBlood samples were collected for the measurement of hemoglobin concentration,.using the KX-21 machine (Symex, Japan)Formalin ether technique was used to test stool samples to look for of those children were directly interviewed for more to anemia, the answers were written down using questionnairesAssessment Evaluating children’s anemia status based on the hemoglobin (g/dl) of the World Health Organization (Mild anemia: , : , serious anemia: lower than 7g/dl)- Evaluating helminthes infection status by whether children had (including Hookworm’s, Ascaris’or Trichuris’s eggs) in stool samples or not- Weight and height were used for evaluating nutrition condition of children ( children are younger than 9 years old, the index of weights over heights based on population was calculated:.- Lower than -2SD was considered Equal to or over -2SD was considered 9 year old children and the older, whose height was ’s height, a BMI indicator was : under 5th centigrade of the conferential population was , equ

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