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Collaborative quality improvement as an approach to strengthen the link between CHWs and the Health Centers in DRC
After 18 months of collaborative improvement, CHW curative visits have increased from an average of 0.33 cases/day to 1.0/day. The proportion of children CHWs were to refer that were then seen at health facilities increased from 40% to 53%. Supervision increased from 0.7 visits per month to 1.8. The percent of community care sites experiencing stock outs of oral rehydration salts decreased from 45 to 13, and malaria medication from 91 to 23.
Given these improvements, the promising practices (effective strategies) tested during the collaborative will be scaled up in all IHP-supported health zones.
Learning Areas:
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practiceOther professions or practice related to public health
Program planning
Provision of health care to the public
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
describe key findings of the community case management evaluation in DRC
describe promising ICCM practices that will be scaled up
Keyword(s): Quality Improvement, International MCH
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a Child Health Senior Technical Advisor for the DRC-Integrated Health Project, and a medical doctor with over ten years of experiences in primary health care. He works on child survival closely with the Ministry of Health in DRC.
I have contributed to the scale up Integrated Community Case Management (i-CCM) and community-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in DRC.
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Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.