Jesica Naranjo

BIOLOGY LAB 1615, 7:00 pm Thursday, 2014

Scientific Article

Case Management of Childhood Illness in Ethiopia

Introduction Pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria are among the leading causes of mortality
in children younger than 5 years old. There has been lots of therapies to help out children health
but do not have any access to healthcare facilities. There has been healthcare personal sent to
Ethiopia to assist on treatments and reduce child mortality. These groups mentioned before are
called (iCCM), integrated community case management of childhood illness.
Reason for research Scientists mainly, are trying to determine the quality and
management of groups of professional health providers sent to Ethiopia to assess childhood
illnesses such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and ear infections, to be able to reduce child
mortality.
Method and Materials The health providers were sent to Ethiopia for healthcare,
childhood illnesses and also to collect data from all these visits and treatments, the personal were
performing. Children had to meet three main criteria to be able to be, excepted into this program.
This criteria, is children between zero and two months of age were excluded from the study.
Basically, children only 2 years old to 59 months of age were qualified and considered for the
study.

Discussion Another major requirement for this study is, children have to have at least one
consistent health complaint under an, eligible illness for ICCM (concurrent management). Those
eligible illnesses or symptoms are, lethargic or unconsciousness, convulsions, not eating or
drinking, fever/malaria, cough, fast/hard breathing, diarrhea, vomiting, ear problems,
malnutrition, feeding problems or anemia.
Scientists predicted, with this study of their groups of healthcare providers and to
improve ways of better their diagnosis to their patients and reducing illnesses with the available
medicine and to be able to accurately diagnosing each symptom to its illness, the study would
have considerably higher chances of curing these children in need of medical care.
Results were significantly higher in the intervention areas were health and providing
medical treatment, meaning more health providers from the experimental group were bettering
the accuracy and quality toward treatment and care to children in need.
These results mean, more professional healthcare providing professionals sent as a group
to Ethiopia for a childhood experimental study, were diagnosing more accurately and therefore
prescribing the correct medicine available to them. Also, the quality of care improved due to
health professionals obtaining data on the everyday basis.
The general danger signs for children in the study, were not able to eat or drink, vomit
everything they ate and children suffering from convulsions.
Limitations of this study are several. A small sample of children with malaria and
measles didnt get the assessment needed due to those illnesses not qualifying for the study.
HEW (Health Extensions workers), may have performed much better under supervision, than on

the regular basis, when HEWs knew about survey takers for the study were coming to collect
data, the health professionals might of prepared themselves a little better than usual.
Conclusions All of these limitations might have changed the outcome of the data
collected and the whole study for the quality of care portion for this study. But still without all
the resources to help the children in need, may have big impact on child mortality.

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