FILABAVI HDSS, VIETNAM
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Brief Introduction to Filabavi HDSS
The Filabavi HDSS is located in Bavi District of Ha Tay Province in Northern Viet Nam, 60 kms
west of Hanoi. The Filabavi HDSS was initiated in 1999 as part of bilateral co-operation
between public health institutions in Vietnam and Sweden. The whole population of Bavi
District is approximately 240 000, and the initial population under surveillance was 51 000
(12 000 households), about 20% of the district's population. The surveyed population
includes three distinct groups, in mountainous areas, highlands, and riverside/island
dwellers.
Objectives
The overall objective of the Filabavi HDSS is to develop an epidemiological surveillance
system to:
 Generate basic health data;
 Supply information for health planning;
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Serve as a background and sampling frame for specific studies, especially
intervention studies; and
Constitute a setting for epidemiological training of research students.
Priority Research Areas
 Equity in Health and Health Care
 Adult health
 Non-communicable Diseases and Injury
 Reproductive and Child Health
 Drug use
 Methodology Development
Completed Key Projects
Project Name
1. The economic burden of unintentional injuries: a
community-based cost analysis in Bavi, Vietnam.
2. Antibiotic medication and bacterial resistance to
antibiotics: a survey of children in a Vietnamese
community
3. Over prescribing of antibiotic to children in rural
Vietnam.
4. Health and Health Care: Equity aspects in Filabavi,
Vietnam.
5. Gender differences in prevalence and social
economic determinants of hypertension: finding
from the WHO STEPs survey in a rural community
of Vietnam
6. Drug use at the community
7. Household health care expenditure
8. Prevalence of injury in Bavi District
9. Domestic violence in Bavi District
10. Abortion in Filabavi
11. Socio-economic differences in a rural district in
Vietnam: effects on health and use of health
services
12. Epidemiology of Unintentional Injuries in Rural
Vietnam
13. Use of the DOTS strategy for Tuberculosis: the role
of information/education (Access TB care under
DOTS coverage area in rural Vietnam)
14. The injury poverty trap: causes, consequences and
possible solutions
15. Epidemiology of Cardiovascular diseases in Bavi
district, Vietnam
16. Assessing health problems: Self-reported illness,
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Funder
Sida/SAREC
Grant Period
2000-2003
Sida/SAREC
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INDEPTH
2002-2003
WHO
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mental distress, and alcohol problems in rural
district in Vietnam
17. Mortality in transitional Vietnam
18. Validity and methodology development for
mortality surveillance in rural setting of Northern
Vietnam
19. Intervention to improve Drug Use at the District
hospital
20. Reproductive Tract Infections – a population based
study in Filabavi
21. Study on women perception of STDs
22. Mortality causes by verbal autopsy
23. Health seeking behaviour in Bavi District
24. Tuberculosis KAP survey
25. Perception of lay people on hypertension
26. Health care expenditure in Bavi district, Hatay,
Vietnam
27. Study on NCD
28. Antibiotic resistance
Sida/SAREC
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2000-2003
2000-2003
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2004-2007
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2004-2007
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2004-2007
2004-2007
2004-2007
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INDEPTH
Sida/SAREC
2005
2006-2007
Funder
Sida/SAREC
Grant Period
2004-2010
Sida/SAREC
2006-2010
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2006-2010
Sida/SAREC
2007-2011
Sida/SAREC
2007-2011
Sida/SAREC
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INDEPTH
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2007-2011
2008
2008-2011
2008-2009
Ongoing Key Projects
Project Name
1. Child health problems and use of health services in
Bavi, Ha Tay, Vietnam
2. Health, needs and cares for older people: a
community-based study in a rural area of Vietnam
3. Study knowledge and practice in prescribing,
providing, using antibiotics for children and
situation of antibiotics resistance in Bavi, Vietnam
4. Intervention for hypertensive people at community
level
5. Maternal and child health care utilization in rural
and urban Vietnam
6. Facing hypertension crisis among women
7. Infertility in Bavi district, Hatay province, Vietnam
8. Cost of Illness
9. Study on Diabetes
Planned Projects
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Intervention for NCDs
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Improve knowledge and pratice of mother in using of antibiotics
Educational intervention on STDs
Intervention to change life style to preventive NCDs
Health Care Financing mechanism
Human Resource at the site
CATEGORIES
Research Scientists
NUMBER
30
Clinical Staff
10
Statisticians / Bio-Statisticians
4
Field Supervisors
6
Field Workers
45
Administrative staff
5
Funders: Sida/GLOBFORSK, INDEPTH Network
Collaborators: IHCAR, Karolinska, Umea University Sweden, INDEPTH Network
Key Publications
1. Thuan NTB, Curt L, Lars L, Chuc NTK. Choice of health care provider following reform
in Vietnam. BMC Health Services Research 2008 July 30
2. Lan PT, Faxeled E, Chuc NT, Mohren I, Lundborg CS. Perception and attitudes in
relation to reproductive tract infections including sexually transmitted infectious in
rural Vietnam: A qualitative study. Health Policy 2008 Jan 7
3. Hoa NQ, Ohman A, Lundborg CS, Chuc NT. Drug use and health-seeking behaviour for
childhood illness in Vietnam-A qualitative study. Health Policy. 2007 Aug; 82(3):320-9
4. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Le Quang Cuong, Peter Allebeck, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Torbjorn
Tomson. Knowledge attitudes and aractice toward epilepsy among adults in Bavi,
Vietnam: First report from the population-Based EPIBAVI study. Epilepsia 2007;
48(10):1914-9.
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Minimum Dataset
Age
<1
1-4
5-9
10-14
Both
sexes
398
3509
3763
4406
15-19
Person Years
Male
Female
Mortality
Deaths
Both
Male Female
sexes
8
6
2
2
0
2
0
0
0
2
2
0
208
1894
1942
2301
190
1614
1821
2105
5388
2755
2633
6
6
0
20-24
25-29
4773
3706
2323
1832
2451
1874
6
6
6
4
0
2
30-34
35-39
3558
3253
1738
1581
1820
1672
4
8
3
8
1
0
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
65-69
70-74
75-79
80-84
85+
3597
3742
2650
1729
1250
1260
1205
1051
643
576
50457
1774
1793
1264
766
607
519
477
345
187
116
1823
1948
1386
963
643
741
728
706
456
460
10
17
10
13
7
27
25
27
33
56
267
6
13
4
11
4
20
17
12
13
15
Cause
Malaria
Infectious
diseases
Maternal
causes
.
.
etc
<1
Crude birth rate
Total fertility rate
Crude death rate
Neonatal mortality
rate
Post neonatal
mortality rate
Infant mortality
Child mortality rate
(1-4)
Underfive mortality
Crude rate of natural
increase
In-migration rate
Outmigration rate
Growth rate
4
4
6
2
3 Boy newborn ratio
7
8
15
20
41
Cause of death by broad age group
Age group
1-4 5-14
15-44
45-64
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Basic vital statistics
65-84
85+
Rates
18.21
2.23
5.35
3.26
5.44
8.71
0.57
2.56
12.86
33.71
47.92
-1.35
53%
Age
15-19
Women
2633
Births (both)
28
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44
45-49
2451
1874
1820
1672
1823
1948
365
301
155
52
17
1
Fertility
Female
Male
Site Contact details
Site Leader: NTK Chuc
Hanoi Medical University
1 Ton That Tung, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel: +844 5742449
Fax: +84 4 8525115
Email: ntkchuc020254@gmail.co
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16
12
ASFR
10.64
194
168
71
27
8
1
171
133
84
25
9
0
148.94
160.58
85.18
31.10
9.32
0.51