Proactive community case management and child survival: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community health workers (CHWs)-shown to improve access to care and reduce maternal, newborn, and child morbidity and mortality-are re-emerging as a key strategy to achieve health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, recent evaluations of national programmes for CHW-led integrated community case management (iCCM) of common childhood illnesses have not found benefits on access to care and child mortality. Developing innovative ways to maximise the potential benefits of iCCM is critical to achieving the SDGs.

Methods and analysis

An unblinded, cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Mali aims to test the efficacy of the addition of door-to-door proactive case detection by CHWs compared with a conventional approach to iCCM service delivery in

SUBMITTER: Whidden C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720240 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature