Peru

• Are health interventions implemented where they are most needed? District uptake of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy in Brazil, Peru and the United Republic of Tanzania
  Cesar Victora, Luis Huicho, Joao Amaral, Joana Schellenberg, Fatuma Manzi, Elizabeth Mason, & Robert Scherpbier, Bulletin of the World Health Organization. October 2006, 84
  In a perfect world, IMCI would be more strongly implemented in districts with high under 5 mortality rates and lower standards of living, and among these, priority would be given to districts with a large population of children younger than five years old. This was not the case in any of the three countries studied.
  (10 pages, pdf 394KB)