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IMCI pre-service education (training)
Counselling on infant and young child feeding: training materials
Child health policy
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Development of National Child Health Policy - Phase I: The Situation Analysis | 2004 This document, available in three languages, is part of a series of documents produced by the Child and Adolescent Health and Development unit to assist countries in efforts to improve the quality of children’s lives through integrated approaches. A national child health policy document is a key instrument for setting clear long-term directions and for bringing together the main elements of child health. At a time when all Member States have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, a national health policy will enable countries to “institutionalize” this commitment and translate it into stronger action, and will also serve as valuable reference to harmonize actions among partners. Arabic (pdf 471 Kb) English (pdf 1 Mb) French (pdf 467 Kb) |
Planning
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Guide to planning for implementation of IMCI at district level | 2008 This guide has been developed to assist in improving the overall planning process and especially in building the planning capacity of district staff. Proper planning is crucial for the successful implementation of any programme. District staff have a crucial role in planning for and implementing public health approaches, including their monitoring, more so in an increasingly decentralized system. The guide provides planning principles, a standardized step-by-step approach, tools and criteria for quality planning and programme implementation. English (pdf 8.55 Mb) |
IMCI pre-service education (training)
The IMCI pre-service education package proposes a standard approach to assist teaching institutions in introducing, implementing and assessing undergraduate teaching programmes including the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy (IMCI).
Medical and allied health professional schools play a key role in preparing the future cadres of health providers who will be providing child health care services in a country, whether in the public or private sector.
Medical schools in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region have taken steps in recent years to introduce the IMCI approach into the undergraduate teaching programmes, in collaboration with the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.
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IMCI pre-service education: orientation and planning workshop: facilitator guide | 2010 This guide is designed to assist in the conduct of in-depth participatory workshops for teaching institutions to develop plans to introduce IMCI into the teaching programmes. The guide includes detailed guidelines, presentations and tools to support this task. English (pdf 1.5 Mb) |
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IMCI pre-service education: teaching sessions | 2010 This document includes lesson plans to support planning and conduct of IMCI-related teaching sessions within the pediatric and community medicine teaching programmes. It describes student learning objectives and content and procedures of each session. English (pdf 1.02 Mb) |
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IMCI pre-service education: question bank | 2010 This question bank is a resource library of multiple-choice questions and case scenarios suitable for evaluations of IMCI pre-service education (training) and student formative and summative assessments. English (pdf 1.4 Mb) |
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IMCI pre-service education: guide to evaluation | 2010 This guide is a comprehensive tool to assess whether IMCI pre-service education (training) as a public health intervention improves students' competencies in managing the main childhood health problems in outpatient settings. It comes with a user guide to data entry and analysis and a CD with the relevant e-forms and programme files. English (pdf 9.89 Mb) |
Community component
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Framework for the community component of the integrated child care strategy | 2002 This document proposes a framework for integrated community child care to guide national public health managers in planning community actions in the context of the strategy on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). The family and the community where children live play a major role in child development. The IMCI community component aims at improving good child care practices at home and in the community. While many interventions and projects exist at community level which concern child health, there has been some delay in countries in integrating such interventions into a comprehensive child care strategy that includes a well developed community approach. Arabic (pdf 1.58 Mb) English (pdf 752 Kb) French (pdf 955 Kb) |
Counselling on infant and young child feeding: training materials
The Regional Arabic training materials on “Counselling on Infant and Young Child Feeding” emphasize the use of effective counselling techniques.
A new training methodology, based on the IMCI training, is used to enable skill acquisition.
The materials are designed for physicians, who are influential providers and can play a major role in guiding, assisting and supporting mothers and families in child feeding.
Cultural and social aspects of countries in the Region have been carefully considered in the development of the training package.
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Counselling on infant and young child feeding: Facilitator guide | 2006 Arabic (pdf 6.76 Mb) |
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Counselling on infant and young child feeding - Facilitator guide for clinical sessions | 2006 Arabic (pdf 992 Kb) |
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Counselling on infant and young child feeding: Participant guide | 2006 Arabic (pdf 6.67 Mb) |
Evaluation (surveys)
These evaluations aim to assess the quality of outpatient health care services provided to children below 5 years old at health facilities.
The surveys provide a rich mine of quantitative and qualitative information, including both clinical and health system support components of care.
They report on a list of standardized indicators, useful to monitor improvements in child health care services.
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Health Facility Survey on Outpatient Child Care (IMCI) Services – Egypt, March 2002 Health facility survey on outpatient child care (IMCI) services - Egypt report 2002 (pdf 235 Kb) |
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Health Facility Survey on Outpatient Child Care (IMCI) Services – Egypt, March 2002 Booklet | 2002 | English (pdf 660 kb) |
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Health Facility Survey on Quality of Outpatient Child Health Services - IMCI Health Facility Survey – Sudan, March - April 2003 Report | 2003 | English (pdf 4.08 Mb) |
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Health Facility Survey on Quality of Outpatient Child Health Services - IMCI Health Facility Survey – Sudan, March - April 2003 Booklet | 2003 | English (pdf 668 Kb) |
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National Health Facility Survey on the Quality of Outpatient Primary Child Health Care Services – Morocco, October - December 2007 The main objective of this evaluation, conducted after 7 years of IMCI expanded implementation, was to collect quantitative and qualitative information to assess the quality of outpatient health care services provided to sick children below 5 years old at health centres with IMCI trained staff, including both the clinical and health system support components. Report | 2008 | English (pdf 5.83 Mb) |
General
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Overview of child health in Arab countries - Second edition | 2002 English (pdf 248 Kb) |
