| Community IMCI
Success in reducing childhood mortality requires more than the availability of adequate health services with well-trained personnel. As families have the major responsibility for caring for their children, success requires a partnership between health providers and families, with support from their communities.
Health providers need to ensure that families can provide adequate home care to support the healthy growth and development of their children. Families also need to be able to respond appropriately when their children are sick, seeking appropriate and timely assistance and giving recommended treatments.
The right to survival and development is one of the four basic principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Human rights principles underlie C-IMCI. The application of human rights principles to IMCI implies that the strategy addresses not only the manifestations of the problem but also the underlying root causes. C-IMCI engages families and communities in discussions about child health and assists them to assess, analyze, and take action on the problems affecting them and their children. It also promotes the participation of parents, other primary caregivers, and communities to sustain new practices that support the changes they have chosen to pursue in child health. Community involvement and capacity development are central to the implementation of C-IMCI.
There are 16 Key Family Practices to decrease mortality and morbidity in children under five and enable children to develop and grow.
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