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Integrated Management of Childhood Illness With The Focus On Caregivers: An Integrative Literature Review by

This reaction paper summarizes an integrative literature review about the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy focusing on caregivers. The IMCI strategy provides health monitoring and treatment for common childhood illnesses, while also educating and involving caregivers and families. The literature review found that caregivers knew some but not all warning signs for respiratory infections and diarrhea. Caregivers saw pneumonia as serious. Health professionals trained in IMCI had better communication skills than untrained professionals. Following a child's health depended on the caregiver's education level and medications received. The review concluded it is important for IMCI to focus on including families in children's healthcare.

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Integrated Management of Childhood Illness With The Focus On Caregivers: An Integrative Literature Review by

This reaction paper summarizes an integrative literature review about the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy focusing on caregivers. The IMCI strategy provides health monitoring and treatment for common childhood illnesses, while also educating and involving caregivers and families. The literature review found that caregivers knew some but not all warning signs for respiratory infections and diarrhea. Caregivers saw pneumonia as serious. Health professionals trained in IMCI had better communication skills than untrained professionals. Following a child's health depended on the caregiver's education level and medications received. The review concluded it is important for IMCI to focus on including families in children's healthcare.

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TARLAC STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

HIPOLITO, MARY JOY B.

BSN 2-2

Integrated management of childhood illness with the focus on


caregivers: an integrative literature review by:

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The article talk about integrated management of childhood illness with the focus on caregivers,

Although the impact of the strategy has not been documented given the lack of national coverage, it
has been identified a decrease in the infant mortality rate that seems to be related to the inclusion of
the strategy in 2004. The IMCI strategy provides children's health monitoring through promotional,
preventive, and therapeutic approaches, as well as interactions with the child, the family, health
services, and other social sectors. Therefore, this work will show an integrated care index that
involves general information, identification, evaluation, classification, treatment, and counseling to
children and their caregivers in the most prevalent pathologies of childhood.. Moreover, framed in
the clinical component of the strategy, this work is aimed at identifying the IMCI implementation-
related factors.

. The aim was to identify, between 1998 and 2008, publications relating to the IMCI
strategy focusing on the caregiver. This study is an Integrative literature review in
the Pubmed, Lilacs and Scielo databases. The caregivers knew one or more warning
signs for acute respiratory infection, but not for diarrhea. Pneumonia was perceived
as a serious childhood disease. Communication skills among health professionals
trained in the IMCI strategy were different to those in untrained professionals. The
follow-up of the health of the child is higher according to the education level of the
caregiver, and according to the medications supplied in the consultation and in the
follow-up. Regarding the health of the child it is relevant to focus on the IMCI
strategy, favoring experiences that include the family in the care. It was good to
note that the authors highlighted the importance of health and values. Overall , this
article enlighten and refresh my understanding about the health of individual.

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