TY - JOUR
T1 - A health systems approach to integrated community case management of childhood illness
T2 - Methods and tools
AU - McGorman, Laura
AU - Marsh, David R.
AU - Guenther, Tanya
AU - Gilroy, Kate
AU - Barat, Lawrence M.
AU - Hammamy, Diaa
AU - Wansi, Emmanuel
AU - Peterson, Stefan
AU - Hamer, Davidson H.
AU - George, Asha
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness is an increasingly popular strategy to expand life-saving health services to underserved communities. However, community health approaches vary widely across countries and do not always distribute resources evenly across local health systems. We present a harmonized framework, developed through interagency consultation and review, which supports the design of CCM by using a systems approach. To verify that the framework produces results, we also suggest a list of complementary indicators, including nine global metrics, and a menu of 39 country-specific measures.When used by program managers and evaluators, we propose that the framework and indicators can facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of community case management.
AB - Integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness is an increasingly popular strategy to expand life-saving health services to underserved communities. However, community health approaches vary widely across countries and do not always distribute resources evenly across local health systems. We present a harmonized framework, developed through interagency consultation and review, which supports the design of CCM by using a systems approach. To verify that the framework produces results, we also suggest a list of complementary indicators, including nine global metrics, and a menu of 39 country-specific measures.When used by program managers and evaluators, we propose that the framework and indicators can facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of community case management.
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U2 - 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0758
DO - 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0758
M3 - Article
C2 - 23136280
AN - SCOPUS:84876888002
SN - 0002-9637
VL - 87
SP - 69
EP - 76
JO - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
IS - SUPPL.5
ER -