Integrated management of childhood illness
Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) was launched by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in 1996 in recognition of the drawbacks and inefficiencies of the vertical non-integrated programme approach to child health.
The strategy involves improving case management at health facility level through provision and promotion of evidence-based case management guidelines, adapted to local context, and activities to improve the communication and counselling skills of health care staff. The second component of the strategy is strengthening the health system. The third component is to improve family and community health care practices by developing interventions to strengthen community participation, promote prompt and appropriate care-seeking for childhood illness, and create safe environments for children.
- Does the integrated management of childhood illness cost more than routine care?: results from the United Republic of Tanzania
- This study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, finds that IMCI costs no more than routine care in several states of Tanzania, as well as being more effective in increasing the chances of child survival.
Recommended reading
- The analytic review of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy
- ( World Health Organization , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) presents an in-depth review of the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy. Key obstacles to reducing child mortality are highli...
- Improving child health: IMCI: the integrated approach
- ( World Health Organization , 1997)
- In the developing world, most children do not have access to the simple, affordable health care that is available to their peers in developed countries. The World Health Organization’s Division of Ch...
- Family and community practices that promote child survival, growth and development: a review of the evidence
- ( Z. Hill; B. Kirkwood; K. Edmond / World Health Organization , 2004)
- Success in reducing childhood mortality requires more than the availability of adequate health services with well-trained personnel. As families have the major responsibility for caring for their chil...
- Child survival 5: Knowledge into action for child survival
- ( The Lancet , 2003)
- More than 10 million children will die this year, almost all of them poor. Most will die from easily treatable conditions. Members of the Bellagio Child Survival study group produced this report bas...
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- Delivering the continuum of care for mothers, babies and children
- ( K.J. Kerber;J.E. De Graft-Johnson;Z.A. Bhutta / The Lancet , 2007)
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- Measles mortality in Africa reduced by 91 per cent between 2000 and 2006
- ( The Weekly Epidemiological Record , 2007)
- This World Health Organization report provides details on measles mortality-reduction activities implemented during 2006 and their estimated impact on the overall global burden of measles relative to ...
