Transcription of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
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Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
Opportunities for Africa s Newborns 91 Every year, nearly 11 million children die before reaching their fifth response to this challenge,WHO and UNICEF in the early 1990s developed IntegratedManagement of Childhood Illness (IMCI), a strategy designed to reduce child mortality andmorbidity in developing approach focuses on the major causes of deaths inchildren through improving case Management skills of health workers, strengthening thehealth system, and addressing family and community practices. However, the original IMCI modules did not include care of the sick newborn during the first week of life, the time whenone in three child deaths occur, and it did not emphasise home-based newborn has become a main child survival strategy in almost all countries in the African region,creating a unique opportunity to scale up newborn health interventions using IMCI as avehicle.
Convention on the Rights of the Child. The strategy is based on human rights that guarantee health care to all ... too.Severe illness during the first month of life can result in long term disability and poor school ... health workers to categorise sick children using simplified
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