The Implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness ...

2. Objectives
Describe and analyse the outpatient settings for children in a sub-Saharan
country with a focus on the implementation of Integrated Management of
Childhood Illness. In particular:
• Describe and analyse the patient flow through primary health care
facilities.
• Identify and analyse the causes for children′s attendances to the
primary health care facilities.
• Assess what impact user fees have on health care seeking.
• Outline and discuss health workers’ experience of the implementation
of IMCI.
• Evaluate the access to IMCI-recommended drugs at the primary health
care level.
• Describe the satisfaction of caretakers of sick children who seek care at
the primary health care level
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