Primary level health facilities
IMCI program implementation resources
Improving child health IMCI: The integrated approach
The document gives an overview of the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) and its components as a new approach to treating sick children....
Operationalizing management of sick young infants with possible serious bacterial infection (PSBI)
It is estimated that as many as 600 000 newborns die each year from serious infection, and that most of these deaths could be averted by preventive measures,...
A systematic review of the effectiveness of shortening Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines...
The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy has been shown to improve care for ill children in outpatient settings in developing countries....
Report of a technical consultation on IMCI training approaches and pre service IMCI: Geneva, Switzerland,...
The implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) strategy has been shown to improve health workers' performance and quality of...
Production of zinc tablets and zinc oral solutions
These guidelines were prepared to assist policy makers and programme managers in the selection and procurement of quality zinc products (zinc tablets and...
Diarrhoeal diseases are a leading cause of sickness and death among children in developing countries.This Joint Statement focuses on two recent advances...
WHO and UNICEF have released revised recommendations aimed at dramatically cutting the number of deaths due to diarrhoea. These new recommendations take...
Oral rehydration salts
Acute diarrhoeal diseases are among the leading causes of mortality in infants and young children in many developing countries. In most cases, death is...
Technical updates of the guidelines on the IMCI
It is over seven years since IMCI has been introduced. During this period, the Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH) and many...
IMCI: planning, implementing and evaluating
The guide aims to help countries to introduce IMCI into pre-service training. Four phases of the process are described: Orient and plan, Prepare and conduct...
IMCI Adaptation Guide
This IMCI Adaptation Guide describes a process for countries to use to adapt the generic IMCI guidelines for the care of sick children who come to first-level health facilities. The generic guidelines need to be adapted to ensure that they cover the illnesses that contribute most to childhood mortality in a specific country and that they are appropriate for the local conditions that affect the care of children in the health facility and at home. The guide assists persons in making decisions about what adaptations are needed and in completing the many tasks required to produce adapted materials for training health workers.