The IMCI charts and related in-service training materials, provided by WHO and UNICEF, are considered to be a “generic” version. This model IMCI handbook is also a generic document. The WHO Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH) created this handbook
2 IMCI S ALL YOUNG INFANTS ths) IMCI PROCESS FOR ALL YOUNG INFANTS (Birth up to two months) HAS THE INFANT JUST BEEN DELIVERED? • Provide Emergency Newborn Care • Resuscitate using the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) approach • Keep baby warm (p. 11) • ASSESS and CLASSIFY for POSSIBLE SERIOUS BACTERIAL INFECTION and …
WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness: distance learning course. 15 booklets Contents: - Introduction, self-study modules – Module 1: general danger signs for
USE ALL BOXES THAT MATCH THE CHILD’S SYMPTOMS AND PROBLEMS TO CLASSIFY THE ILLNESS. Does the child have cough or difficult breathing? (Urgent pre-referral treatments are in bold print.) • For how long? • Count the breaths in one minute. Look for chest indrawing. • Look and listen for stridor.} sign or. Stridor in calm child.
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). Although the major stimulus for IMCI came from the needs of curative care, the strategy combines improved management of childhood illness with aspects of nutrition, immunization, and other important disease prevention and health promotion activities. The objectives are to
Guideline: assessing and managing children at primary health-care facilities to prevent overweight and obesity in the context of the double burden of malnutrition. Updates for the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) data.
This document provides operational guidance on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) for healthcare professionals.
Handbook : IMCI integrated management of childhood illness
Description Previously issued as WHO document WHO/FCH/CAH/00.12. ISBN 9241546441. Language English
“IMCI” originally stood for "Integrated Management of Childhood Illness”, which has since been changed to "Integrated Management of Childhood Health". It refers to a broad WHO/UNICEF initiative that was launched globally in 1995 with the objective of reducing under-5 mortality, morbidity and disability, and improving child growth and development.
10.3 Discuss how the IMCI strategy fits within the national health policy and, where relevant, health sector reforms 120 10.4 Decide on emphasis and select activities for the expansion