Operational Framework for Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (C-IMCI)
Summary
This is a table examining the following headings...
- Growth Promotion and Development
(These are practices that help a child grow and develop physically and mentally, and include good nutrition and psychosocial development.)
- Disease Prevention
These are practices in the household before the onset of a disease to provide protection against disease
- Home Management
These are practices that take place in the home once it is recognised that the child is sick /unwell.
- Care Seeking and Compliance to Treatment and Advice
These are practices that involve going out of the home to seek health care. These practices include: 1) recognising that a sick child can no longer be managed at home; 2) the process of going out to seek further help, and 3) going out of the home to seek medical services, including preventive services.
under the following categories...
- Key Family Practices
- Rights Holders
- Duty Bearers
- Capacity Gaps
- Key actions needed for capacity building for improved care
- Household
- Community
- Facility/Service level
- Tools
- Resources Required
- Human
- Supplies
- Organisational
- Indicators
Click here for the table as a PDF document.
Placed on the Communication Initiative site January 24 2003
Last Updated January 24 2003
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