Child Health

dc.creatorWorld Bank
dc.date2012-08-13T09:31:19Z
dc.date2012-08-13T09:31:19Z
dc.date2002-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:03:10Z
dc.descriptionThe largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note examines the work of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) - a strategy to improve child health outcomes, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths, illnesses, and disabilities, while improving children's growth, and development. IMCI's three main components are to: improve family, and community practices related to child health, and nutrition; improve the health system for effective management of childhood illnesses; and, improve health workers' skills. Finally, the note highlights further needs, e.g., creating working groups to develop national plans in accordance with the three IMCI components, adapting national guidelines, with the IMCI training material, and include the major causes of child deaths, and conditions; targeting poor communities, and disadvantaged children; and, linking health facilities with communities, while ensuring appropriate, and affordable referral arrangements.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/11983413/child-health
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9780
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/9780
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/414731
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC
dc.relationat a glance
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectCHILD HEALTH
dc.subjectCHILD HEALTH SERVICES
dc.subjectCHILD MORTALITY
dc.subjectLEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
dc.subjectDISEASE BURDEN
dc.subjectCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
dc.subjectMEASLES
dc.subjectMALARIA
dc.subjectACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
dc.subjectHIV VIRUSES
dc.subjectMALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN
dc.subjectCHILDREN'S DISEASES
dc.subjectINTEGRATED HEALTH CARE
dc.subjectCHILD NUTRITION
dc.subjectBREAST FEEDING
dc.subjectENDEMIC DISEASES
dc.subjectHYGIENE
dc.subjectIMMUNIZATION OF CHILDREN
dc.subjectQUALITY OF HEALTH CARE
dc.subjectHEALTH PROVIDERS
dc.subjectTRAINING ASSISTANCE
dc.subjectHEALTH SUVEILLANCE REQUIREMENTS
dc.subjectADEQUATE PRENATAL CARE
dc.subjectAGED
dc.subjectAIDS PREVENTION
dc.subjectANTENATAL CARE
dc.subjectASPHYXIA
dc.subjectBCG
dc.subjectBREAST FEEDING
dc.subjectBREASTFEEDING
dc.subjectBREASTFEEDING PROMOTION
dc.subjectBURDEN OF DISEASE
dc.subjectCHILD DEATHS
dc.subjectCHILD FEEDING
dc.subjectCHILD HEALTH
dc.subjectCHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES
dc.subjectCHILD HEALTH SERVICES
dc.subjectCHILD MORBIDITY
dc.subjectCHILD MORTALITY
dc.subjectCHILD NUTRITION
dc.subjectCHILDBIRTH
dc.subjectCHILDHOOD DEATHS
dc.subjectCHILDHOOD ILLNESS
dc.subjectCHILDHOOD ILLNESSES
dc.subjectCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
dc.subjectCOMPLEMENTARY FEEDING
dc.subjectCOMPLEMENTARY FOOD
dc.subjectCOUNSELING
dc.subjectDEFECATION
dc.subjectDELIVERY CARE
dc.subjectDEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subjectDIARRHEA
dc.subjectDIET
dc.subjectDISABILITY
dc.subjectDISADVANTAGED CHILDREN
dc.subjectDISEASE BURDEN
dc.subjectDRUGS
dc.subjectEARLY CHILDHOOD
dc.subjectEDUCATED MOTHERS
dc.subjectENDEMIC AREAS
dc.subjectFAMILY HEALTH
dc.subjectFAMILY PLANNING
dc.subjectFEVER
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE
dc.subjectHEALTH FACILITIES
dc.subjectHEALTH INFORMATION
dc.subjectHEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM
dc.subjectHEALTH OUTCOMES
dc.subjectHEALTH PROBLEMS
dc.subjectHEALTH PROVIDERS
dc.subjectHEALTH SECTOR
dc.subjectHEALTH SECTOR REFORM
dc.subjectHEALTH SYSTEM
dc.subjectHEALTH WORKERS
dc.subjectHIV/AIDS
dc.subjectILLNESS
dc.subjectILLNESSES
dc.subjectIMCI
dc.subjectIMMUNIZATION
dc.subjectINFANT
dc.subjectINFANTS
dc.subjectINFECTIONS
dc.subjectINFORMATION SYSTEM
dc.subjectINSECTICIDE IMPREGNATED BEDNETS
dc.subjectINTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESS
dc.subjectINTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES
dc.subjectIRON
dc.subjectLOW BIRTH WEIGHT
dc.subjectMALARIA
dc.subjectMALNUTRITION
dc.subjectMEASLES
dc.subjectMORBIDITY
dc.subjectMORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
dc.subjectMORTALITY
dc.subjectNEWBORN
dc.subjectNUTRITION
dc.subjectNUTRITIONAL STATUS
dc.subjectPERINATAL MORTALITY
dc.subjectPNEUMONIA
dc.subjectPREGNANCY
dc.subjectPREGNANT WOMAN
dc.subjectPREGNANT WOMEN
dc.subjectPUBLIC HEALTH
dc.subjectQUALITY OF CARE
dc.subjectRISK FACTORS
dc.subjectSAFE DRINKING WATER
dc.subjectSCHOOL HEALTH
dc.subjectSERVICES FOR CHILDREN
dc.subjectSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectSTDS
dc.subjectTOBACCO
dc.subjectTRAUMA
dc.subjectTREATMENT
dc.subjectTUBERCULOSIS
dc.subjectVITAMIN A
dc.subjectWORKERS CHILD HEALTH
dc.subjectCHILD HEALTH SERVICES
dc.subjectCHILD MORTALITY
dc.subjectLEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
dc.subjectDISEASE BURDEN
dc.subjectCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
dc.subjectMEASLES
dc.subjectMALARIA
dc.subjectACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
dc.subjectHIV VIRUSES
dc.subjectMALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN
dc.subjectCHILDREN'S DISEASES
dc.subjectINTEGRATED HEALTH CARE
dc.subjectCHILD NUTRITION
dc.subjectBREAST FEEDING
dc.subjectENDEMIC DISEASES
dc.subjectHYGIENE
dc.subjectIMMUNIZATION OF CHILDREN
dc.subjectQUALITY OF HEALTH CARE
dc.subjectHEALTH PROVIDERS
dc.subjectTRAINING ASSISTANCE
dc.subjectHEALTH SUVEILLANCE REQUIREMENTS
dc.titleChild Health

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