National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Viet Nam; School of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia; School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia; Medical, Molecular and Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia; PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Nedlands, WA, Australia. Electronic address: thomas.riley@uwa.edu.au.
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Information on the living conditions of widows in Vietnam is limited. Prior studies of gender gaps have identified widows as vulnerable to the risks of poverty. However, widows are only included as a ...
Ongoing tetanus cases and sporadic outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases associated with routine vaccination programmes remain problems in many low and middle-income countries, including Vietnam. ...
To investigate gaps in immunity to tetanus in Vietnam, a country with a historically high level of tetanus vaccination coverage, tetanus antibodies were measure by ELISA from samples selected from a l...
Antibodies were measured from a total of 3864 samples. Highest tetanus antibody concentrations occurred in children under 4 years old, over 90 % of whom had protective levels. Approximately 70 % of ch...
Widespread immunity to tetanus toxoid is seen in infants and young children consistent with the high coverage rates reported for diptheria tetanus toxoid and pertussis (DTP) in Vietnam. However, the l...
Retinoblastoma (RB), an intraocular malignancy commonly diagnosed in children, is mostly caused by inactivating mutations of both alleles of the RB1 gene. Early genetic screening for RB1 gene mutation...
In this study, both somatic and germline mutations were detected in blood and tumour samples of 42 RB patients using direct sequencing and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification....
In total, 34 different mutations were found in 36 patients, including 1 SNP, 4 large deletions, 5 splicing sites, 1 missense, 7 frameshifts and 17 nonsense mutations. There were five novel mutations a...
A higher rate of RB patients carrying heterozygous germline mutation and highly prevalent with pathogenic truncated mutation, hence, early detection of RB is essential for vision salvation and genetic...
This study explores the effects of banking uncertainty on firms' debt financing. Employing data from 2007 to 2022 of Vietnam-a bank-based economy, we document that banking uncertainty negatively impac...
Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile causes antimicrobial-associated diarrhoea, however, presentations may range from asymptomatic carriage to severe diarrhoea, life-threatening toxic megacolon and ...
Diarrhoeal stool samples from adult patients aged ≥17 years old were collected at Thai Binh General Hospital in northern Vietnam between March 1, 2021 and February 28, 2022. All samples were transport...
A total of 205 stool samples were collected from patients aged from 17 to 101 years old. The overall prevalence of C. difficile was 15.1% (31/205) with the recovery of toxigenic and non-toxigenic isol...
The prevalence of C. difficile in adults with diarrhoea and multidrug resistance in C. difficile isolates was relatively high. A clinical assessment to differentiate between CDI/disease and colonisati...
Anecdotally, the burden of fungal diseases in Vietnam is rapidly rising, but there has been no updated estimate on this issue since a previous report in 2015....
In this study, we aimed at estimating the incidence and prevalence of serious fungal infections for the year 2020....
We made estimates with a previously described methodology, using reports on the incidence and prevalence of various established risk factors for fungal infections from local, regional or global source...
We estimated 2,389,661 cases of serious fungal infection occurred in Vietnam in 2020. The most common condition was recurrent vaginal candidiasis (4047/100,000 women annually). Among people living wit...
The number of patients with mycoses in Vietnam is likely underestimated due to a lack of local data and limited diagnostic capacity, but at least 2.5% of the population might have some form of serious...
The COVID-19 pandemic affected hundreds of millions of people and lives, and vaccination was the safest and most effective strategy to prevent and mitigate the burden of this disease. The implementati...
This retrospective costing study utilized a bottom-up, ingredient-based approach to estimate the cost of delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Vietnam in 2021, from a payer perspective. The study included 3...
The economic cost to deliver one COVID-19 vaccine dose was $1.73, mostly comprised of opportunity costs ($1.14 per dose) which were driven by labor costs ($1.12 per dose). The delivery cost in urban a...
The study estimates the cost of delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Vietnam in 2021. Enabling factors and challenges during the implementation of the program were explored. Study limitations may lead to u...
This study was conducted to assess Vietnam's dementia service delivery....
Using WHO methodology, website searches of key organisations focused on three aspects of Vietnam's healthcare system: (1) Health and social workforce; (2) Services, supports and treatment programs; an...
While key members of the healthcare workforce receive some education in dementia competencies during their training, the skill-mix of staff in the current workforce appears inadequate to address the c...
To improve the ability of Vietnam's service delivery to meet the needs of people with dementia and their carers, the skill-mix of the healthcare workforce should be strengthened by ensuring that demen...
Concerns over adverse environmental effects have been raised due to Vietnam's reliance on fossil fuels like coal. At the same time, efforts are being made to boost the usage of renewable energy while ...
Microplastics have recently emerged as a significant environmental concern due to their direct impacts on marine ecosystems. Vietnam, with its 3260-km coastline, faces an elevated risk of microplastic...
