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Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a systematic approach that focuses on comprehensive care for children's health issues, including prevention, treatment, and promoting growth. IMCI guides healthcare workers to examine children holistically for common health problems, nutrition, and immunizations. The IMCI strategy improves identification and treatment of illnesses, strengthens counseling, and speeds referral of severely ill children. It has three components: improving healthcare workers' skills through training; improving health systems and access to supplies; and promoting good practices through home and community visits.

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Maternal Lab 1

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a systematic approach that focuses on comprehensive care for children's health issues, including prevention, treatment, and promoting growth. IMCI guides healthcare workers to examine children holistically for common health problems, nutrition, and immunizations. The IMCI strategy improves identification and treatment of illnesses, strengthens counseling, and speeds referral of severely ill children. It has three components: improving healthcare workers' skills through training; improving health systems and access to supplies; and promoting good practices through home and community visits.

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1. WHAT IS IMCI?

-Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a systematic approach to


children's health which focuses on the whole child. This means focusing not only on
curative care but also on prevention of disease. This aims to reduce childhood mortality
and improve quality of care for major childhood illnesses, especially at first-level
facilities such as clinics, health center, etc. This often promotes improved growth and
development among children under five years of age. For example if Kelly, a 4 year-old
child have measles, IMCI guides us through comprehensive care. This ensures that we
will examine Kelly for common health problems, nutrition, and immunizations. Whit the
IMCI instructions, we might find health issues that we would not have otherwise. IMCI
also helps you to give rapid and affordable interventions.
2. WHAT IS THE IMCI STRATEGY?
- IMCI is an integrated strategy, which takes into account the variety of factors that put
children at serious risk. It ensures the combined treatment of the major childhood
illnesses, emphasizing prevention of disease through immunization and improved
nutrition. In specific terms, it promotes the accurate identification of childhood illnesses,
ensures appropriate integrated treatments of all major illnesses, strengthens the
counseling of caregivers, and identifies the need of and speeds up the referral of
severely ill children. This strategy commonly focuses on improving case management
skills of health-care providers, improving overall health systems, and improving family
and community health practices.
2. COMPONENTS OF THE IMCI STRATEGY?
  Improving the skills of health care workers by providing training and guidelines on the
integrated management of childhood illness adapted to local context.

 Modules for the evaluation, classification and treatment of children under five, and
training materials on these modules.
 Guides for health-care workers to provide support in effective IMCI application.
 Training materials on how to improve communications with parents during their child's
evaluation, diagnosis and treatment, telling them how to deal with problems and
promoting practices for healthy growth and development.

 Improving how health care systems are organized and managed, including access to
supplies.

 Guidelines for evaluating the care provided to children under five in primary health-care
services and in hospitals.
 Training materials on how to develop local plans for IMCI implementation, follow-up
and evaluation.
 Training courses to improve the availability of attention and medications needed for
IMCI application.
 Protocols for operational and epidemiological research related to IMCI.
 Guidelines to evaluation the results of applying IMCI.

 Visiting homes and communities to promote good child rearing practices and good
nutrition, while encouraging parents to bring their children to a clinic when the
children are ill.

 Sixteen key family practices for healthy growth and development.


 Guide for developing community IMCI projects.
 Guide on evaluating the care of children under five in primary health-care facilities and
hospitals.

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