Stakeholders' perceptions of integrated community case management by community health workers: a post-intervention qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Integrated community case management (iCCM) involves delivery of simple medicines to children with pneumonia, diarrhea and/or malaria by community health workers (CHWs). Between 2010 and 2012, an iCCM intervention trial was implemented by Healthy Child Uganda. This study used qualitative tools to assess whether project stakeholders perceived that iCCM improved access to care for children under five years of age.

Methods

The intervention involved training and equipping 196 CHWs in 98 study villages in one sub-county in Uganda in iCCM. During the eight-month intervention, CHWs assessed sick children, provided antimalarials (coartem) for fever, antibiotics (amoxicillin) for cough and fast breathing, oral rehydration salts/zinc for diarrhea, and referred very sick chi

SUBMITTER: Buchner DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4057118 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature