The WHO/UNICEF approach to integrated management of the sick child

ABSTRACT

This document notes that there are 12 million children who die every year before their fifth birth day and that many die before their first year of life (in Uganda underfive and infant mortality rates are 203 and 122 respectively). Seventy percent of these children die from diarrhoea; pneumonia; measles; malaria or malnutrition and sometimes a combination of these conditions. The WHO/UNICEF Documenta argues that there considerable overlap of signs and symptoms of the childhood disease making it often inappropriate to diagnose a single condition