Abstract
This cross-sectional survey was aimed at exploring the health-promotion coverage
of and disease-prevention services for children 0-5 years old in Lop Buri Province. A total
of 173 children were selected by two-stage cluster sampling probability proportional to
size. This study found that the persons most frequenlty acting as checkers of the children’s
progressive development were their mother and father (68.5%); 2.2 percent of the children had abnormal results and all of them were take care of by physicians; of the 71.8
percent that were weighed, 68 percent had normal weight. Almost all (98.3%) had received Bacillus-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine (97.7%), polio vaccine (95.4%),
diphtheria, tetanus toxoid and pertussis vaccine combined (94.8%), measles vaccine (93.3%)
and Japanese encephalitis vaccine (86.2%). Most of the children did not get dental care
(65.9%) and 42.4 percent had dental carries. More than half (56.7%) of the parents had
read their children’s health record and almost all (96.9%) of them used their books. The
three most useful aspects of the books were for child-feeding, checking the progress of
the children and making appointments for vaccination, respectively.
