Comparative impact assessment of child pneumonia interventions.

Quality of Sick Child-Care Delivered by Community Health Workers in Tanzania

Background Community health worker (CHW) interventions to manage childhood illness is a strategy promoted by the global health community which involves training and supporting CHW to assess, classify and treat sick children at home, using an algorithm adapted from the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). To inform CHW policy, the Government of Tanzania launched a program in ...

An evaluation of oxygen systems for treatment of childhood pneumonia

BACKGROUND Oxygen therapy is recommended for all of the 1.5 - 2.7 million young children who consult health services with hypoxemic pneumonia each year, and the many more with other serious conditions. However, oxygen supplies are intermittent throughout the developing world. Although oxygen is well established as a treatment for hypoxemic pneumonia, quantitative evidence for its effect is lack...

Decision making in child protection: An international comparative study on maltreatment substantiation, risk assessment and interventions recommendations, and the role of professionals' child welfare attitudes.

Child welfare professionals regularly make crucial decisions that have a significant impact on children and their families. The present study presents the Judgments and Decision Processes in Context model (JUDPIC) and uses it to examine the relationships between three independent domains: case characteristic (mother's wish with regard to removal), practitioner characteristic (child welfare atti...

Author's response to reviews Title: Thirty years after Alma-Ata: A systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Authors:

Tackling pneumonia and diarrhoea: the deadliest diseases for the world's poorest children.

On June 8, 2012, UNICEF released a report, Pneumonia and diarrhoea: tackling the deadliest diseases for the world’s poorest children, that presents a compelling argument for greater action for all children, but especially the most vulnerable, on these leading causes of child deaths. Pneumonia and diarrhoea together account for nearly a third (29%) of all deaths among children younger than 5 yea...