OBJECTIVE Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is the leading clinical protocol designed to decrease under-five mortality globally. However, impact is threatened by gaps in IMCI quality of care (QOC). In 2010, Partners In Health and the Rwanda Ministry of Health implemented a nurse mentorship intervention Mentoring and Enhanced Supervision at Health Centres (MESH) in two rural dist...

BACKGROUND Poverty, lack of female empowerment, and lack of education are major risk factors for childhood illness worldwide. Microcredit programs, by offering small loans to poor individuals, attempt to address the first two of these risk factors, poverty and gender disparity. They provide clients, usually women, with a means to invest in their businesses and support their families. This study...

OBJECTIVE Evaluating implementing the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy in the prevention, detection and treatment of iron deficiency in children aged less than 5 who were treated at ASSBASALUD's Clinica La Asunción in Manizales, Colombia, during 2007. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 310 children aged 6 to 71 months who attended the first-level Clinica La ...

OBJECTIVE The multi-country evaluation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) effectiveness, cost and impact (MCE) is a global evaluation to determine the impact of IMCI on health outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. MCE studies are under way in Bangladesh, Brazil, Peru, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. The objective of this analysis from the Bangladesh MCE study was to...

BACKGROUND The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Strategy (IMCI) is effective in improving management of sick children, and thus child survival. It is currently recommended that in-service IMCI case management training (ICMT) occur over 11-days; that the participant: facilitator ratio should be </=4:1 and that at least 30% of ICMT time be spent on clinical practice. In 2006-2007, appro...

BACKGROUND Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a strategy to reduce mortality and morbidity in children under-5 years by improving management of common illnesses at primary level. IMCI has been shown to improve health worker performance, but constraints have been identified in achieving sufficient coverage to improve child survival, and implementation remains sub-optimal. At th...

AIM To test whether nurses can use the WHO integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) nutrition algorithm to identify reliably severe protein-energy malnutrition in children. METHODS Nurses were trained to identify severe protein-energy malnutrition using IMCI training materials. They identified visible severe wasting and bipedal oedema, and categorised weight-for-age using a growth ch...

Key lessons learnt over the two decades since the implementation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) platform (1) have highlighted difficulties faced by regional governments and partners in engaging the private sector in the implementation of the platform. Currently, there has been a focus on training of health care providers only, while investment in supervision has been i...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the clinical competency in detection and management complicated pneumonia, diarrhea, and measles cases of trainees who were village doctors in Puer city of Yunnan province, China. MATERIAL AND METHOD One hundred fifty four village doctors working in the border areas were trainedfor 5-day Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) training, which was adapted to World ...