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Childhood mortality& IMCIOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Background: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a strategy formulated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), presented in 1995 as the principal strategy to improve child health. It focuses on the care of children under five. Objectivs: To review the IMCI program and its value in promotion of child health and highlight the implementation and effectiveness of IMCI referral guidelines. Methods and results: we clarified the basis of the IMCI program and its role in improvement of children health, Also the senstivity and spicificty of the referral criteria of the IMCI algorism. Conclusion: IMCI improves health worker performance and their quality of care, it reduce under-five mortality and improve nutritional status, if implemented well. IMCI referral guidelines appears to be a promising, feasible and useful intervention strategy which can provide good sensitivity and specificity for assessing and triage cases with serious illnesses and this leads to timely referral and this can lead to prevention of mortality in severely ill children.