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标题：Integrated management of childhood illness: bringing treatment closer to home
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作者：Shrivastava SR ; Shrivastava PS ; Ramasamy J 等
期刊名称：Progress in Health Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2083-1617
电子版ISSN：2083-6260
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：187-189
出版社：Medical University of Bialystok
摘要：Globally, the main target of all child health programs is to ensure a reduction in infant/under-five mortality. Globally the progress has been observed in reducing child mortality rate the average annual rate of reduction has remained persistently low in many developing countries. The Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) is a cost-effective strategy that advocates use of evidence-based protocol in the management of common etiology of childhood illness. Despite availability of data on the effectiveness of IMCI in child health and health system, current global coverage of IMCI is far from expected. The objective of the present article is to suggest long- term, cost-effective and primary health care based measures which will aid in extending the child health services to the inaccessible areas. IMCI targets children aged between 0-2 months and 2-5 years and encourages the use of simple clinical signs for detecting cases. To maximize the scope of benefit, IMCI program assessmen t should be done to ascertain the barriers in effective implementation. To conclude, systematic implementation of the IMCI strategy in community well backed by trained health workers can definitely improve the prognosis of childhood illness
关键词：Child health; global health; Integrated ;Management of Childhood Illnesses