Integrated community case management (iCCM)
Impact of an integrated community case management programme on uptake of appropriate diarrhoea and pneumonia treatments in Uganda: A propensity score matching and equity analysis study
... Results from this study point to overall improvement in uptake of appropriate treatment for pneumonia and diar- rhoea across all socioeconomic strata following introduc- tion of iCCM. There were also no significant ...
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Client satisfaction with integrated community case management program in Wakiso District, Uganda, October 2012: A cross sectional survey
... with integrated Community Case Management program… so as to im- prove malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea services, decrease patient defections, decrease negative word of mouth ad- vertizing, ...
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Quality of care in integrated community case management services in Bugoye, Uganda: a retrospective observational study
... Village health worker (VHW) programmes undertake a range of different activities in different settings, with varying levels of focus on health promotion, case find- ing, adherence support, clinical care, and other ...
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Monitoring iCCM referral systems: Bugoye Integrated Community Case Management Initiative (BIMI) in Uganda
... diarrhoea. Integrated community case management (iCCM) trains village health workers (VHWs) to provide in-home diagnosis and treatment of these common childhood ...Bugoye Integrated ...
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Completion of community health worker initiated patient referrals in integrated community case management in rural Uganda
... of community health workers (CHWs) in low and middle income countries [1], including employment of CHWs in efforts to curb child ...with community-based management of pneumonia and malaria [9, ...
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Integrated community case management of malaria and pneumonia increases prompt and appropriate treatment for pneumonia symptoms in children under five years in Eastern Uganda
... home management of malaria (HMM) was one such strategy designed to provide anti-malarials for treatment of fevers at the community ...of integrated manage- ment of common childhood illnesses at the ...
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Integrated community case management in a peri urban setting: a qualitative evaluation in Wakiso District, Uganda
... of community and facility-based care, clarifying that VHT members are intended to serve as a first point of care rather than provide a comprehensive range of ...for community-based ...
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Towards eliminating malaria in high endemic countries: the roles of community health workers and related cadres and their challenges in integrated community case management for malaria: a systematic review
... malaria case management, prevention including health surveillance and health pro- motion specific to ...Conclusions: Community health workers and related cadres had important preventive, case ...
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Supporting and retaining Village Health Teams: an assessment of a community health worker program in two Ugandan districts
... robust integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) program has been implemented in Wakiso, whereby VHTs receive ongoing training, supportive supervision, and medi- cines to distribute ...
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Integrated community case management: An experience from the Democratic Republic of Congo
... including community support through the establishment of community care sites aim to improve access to ...of community care management in the Kabare health zone that be fully supported by ...
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Identifying gaps in the practices of rural health extension workers in Ethiopia: a task analysis study
... expanding case man- agement of childhood illness services to the community level is a common strategy to reach more children and pro- vide them with accessible lifesaving treatments ...performed ...
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The effectiveness of treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) delivered by community health workers compared to a traditional facility based model
... a community level, high opportunity costs, and distance to treatment services ...to community health workers has been explored. For example, integrated Community Case Management ...
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Performance of community health workers under integrated community case management of childhood illnesses in eastern Uganda
... dual- management arm and 73% (99/135) in the single- man- agement arm reported being told what to do in case the child did not get ...single- management arm ...stock management to avoid fre- ...
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Management of paediatric illnesses by patent and proprietary medicine vendors in Nigeria
... The Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) strategy for childhood illnesses adopted by the Nigeria Ministry of Health (MOH) in 2014 aims to improve access to these treatments and provide ...
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Performance of community health workers managing malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea under the community case management programme in central Uganda: a cross sectional study
... the integrated community case manage- ment (iCCM) policy and lay CHWs are main drivers of this ...facility-based management of common childhood illnesses by offering timely management ...
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Case management for integrated care of frail older people in community settings
... how case management approaches as a strategy for integrated care for frail older people might ...of case management, which will likely have different impacts on the frail older person, ...
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Health systems supports for community case management of childhood illness: lessons from an assessment of early implementation in Malawi
... promote integrated community case manage- ment of childhood illnesses (CCM) as a strategy that countries can adopt to improve coverage levels of these key curative interventions ...of ...
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An integrated community health worker intervention in rural Nepal: a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study protocol
... challenge. Community health workers are an important cadre in low-income countries where human resources for health and health care infrastructure are ...Recent case studies of large community health ...
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Water governance and agricultural management:collaboratively dealing with complex policy problems
... where integrated governance and resource management will be realised, it remains clear that at least some of these systemic failings can only be addressed by reconciling catchment politics with the higher ...
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Feasibility and implementation of community based malaria case management with integrated vector control in the Democratic Republic of Congo
... of community knowledge and practice on control of ...repeated community education is a long-term endeavour in order to effect permanent behavioural change and dispel incor- rect perceptions and is an ...
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