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    The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy focuses on the well-being of children through an integrated approach to child health. IMCI aims to reduce child deaths and illnesses through the combined delivery of essential interventions at the community, health facility, and health systems levels for conditions like pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles and malnutrition. It was developed by WHO and UNICEF and involves improving health workers' skills in case management, strengthening health systems, and promoting family health practices.

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    The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy focuses on the well-being of children through an integrated approach to child health. IMCI aims to reduce child deaths and illnesses through the combined delivery of essential interventions at the community, health facility, and health systems levels for conditions like pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles and malnutrition. It was developed by WHO and UNICEF and involves improving health workers' skills in case management, strengthening health systems, and promoting family health practices.

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    IMCI

    What is IMCI?

    Integrated Management of
    Childhood Illness (IMCI)
    • it is an integrated approach
    to child health that focuses
    on the well-being of the
    whole child.
    The Integrated Management of
    Childhood Illness strategy has
    been introduced in an increasing
    number of countries in the region
    since 1995.  IMCI is a major
    strategy for child survival,
    healthy growth and development
    and is based on the combined
    delivery of essential interventions
    at community, health facility and
    health systems levels.
    IMCI includes elements of
    prevention as well as curative
    and addresses the most
    common conditions that affect
    young children. The strategy was
    developed by the World Health
    Organization (WHO) and United
    Nations Children’s Fund
    (UNICEF).
           
    In the Philippines, IMCI was
    started on a pilot basis in 1996,
    thereafter more health workers
    and hospital staffs were
    capacitated to implement the
    strategy at the frontline level.
    Objectives of IMCI

    • Reduce death and frequency


    and severity of illness and
    disability

    • Contribute to improved
    growth and development
    Components of IMCI
    • Improving case management
    skills of health workers
                      11-day Basic Course for RHMs,
    PHNs and MOHs
                      5 - day Facilitators course
                      5 – day Follow-up course for
    IMCI Supervisors
    • Improving  over-all health
    systems
    • Improving family and
    community health practices
    Rationale for an integrated
    approach in the management
    of sick children
    Majority of these deaths are
    caused by 5 preventable and
    treatable conditions namely:
    pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria,
    measles and malnutrition.
    Three (3) out of four (4)
    episodes of childhood illness are
    caused by these five
    conditions
          
    Rationale for an integrated
    approach in the management
    of sick children

    Most children have more than


    one illness at one time. This
    overlap means that a single
    diagnosis may not be possible or
    appropriate.
    Who are the children covered
    by the IMCI protocol? 

    • Sick children birth up to 2


    months (Sick Young Infant)

    • Sick children 2 months up to


    5 years old (Sick child)
    Strategies/Principles of IMCI

    All sick children aged 2 months up


    to 5 years are examined for
    GENERAL DANGER signs and

    All Sick Young Infants Birth up to 2


    months are examined for VERY
    SEVERE DISEASE AND LOCAL
    BACTERIAL INFECTION.

    These signs indicate immediate


    referral or admission to hospital
    Strategies/Principles of IMCI
    The children and infants are then
    assessed for main symptoms.
    For sick children, the main
    symptoms include: cough or difficulty
    breathing, diarrhea, fever and ear
    infection.
    For sick young infants, local
    bacterial infection, diarrhea and
    jaundice.
    All sick children are routinely
    assessed for nutritional,
    immunization and deworming
    status and for other problems.
    Strategies/Principles of IMCI
    • Only a limited number of clinical
    signs are used

    • A combination of individual signs


    leads to a child’s classification
    within one or more symptom
    groups rather than a diagnosis.
    Strategies/Principles of IMCI
    • IMCI management procedures
    use limited number of essential
    drugs and encourage active
    participation of  caretakers in the
    treatment of children

    • Counseling of caretakers on
    home care, correct feeding and
    giving of fluids, and when to
    return to clinic is an essential
    component of IMCI
    BASIS FOR CLASSIFYING
    THE CHILD’S ILLNESS
    PINK
    indicates urgent hospital referral or
    admission

    YELLOW
    indicates initiation of specific
    Outpatient Treatment

    GREEN
    indicates supportive home care
    Steps of the IMCI Case
    management Process
    Steps of the IMCI Case
    management Process

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