HSS 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kids Alive, Catholic Integrated Community, Assistive Technology
22 Nov 2018
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Lecture 4 socioeconomic determinants of health chapter 3 part 4. Integrated management of childhood illness (imci) is a package of simple, affordable, and effective interventions for major childhood illnesses and undernutrition that was first developed by unicef and who in 1995. The term integrated has several layers of meaning, including an emphasis on the interrelatedness of children"s health conditions and on families and communities working together healthcare workers to care for sick children. Imci provides evidence-based decision charts for clinicians to use when assessing children and treating common illnesses. Imci is often paired with integrated community case management (iccm), which provides community health workers with algorithms for treating uncomplicated childhood infections in homes. Each of these historic international child health programs contributed to significant improvements in global child health. Infant and child health statistics show that there is still a great deal of work to be done.
