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D Nabarro

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PubMed1999

Roll Back Malaria.

Roll Back Malaria is an initiative intended to halve the suffering caused by this disease by 2010. The initiative is being developed as a social movement. Action is directed by national authorities backed by a global partnership which consists of development agencies, banks, private sector groups and researchers. The World Health Organization, the World Bank, UNICEF and UNDP founded the partnership in October 1998. The WHO has established a new Cabinet Project, and a WHO-wide strategy and workplan, to support the partnership. High quality, practical, consistent and relevant technical advice is made available through networks of experts based in research, academic, and disease control institutions, particularly those in endemic countries. The initiative also supports research and development of new products and tools to control malaria. Implementation of Roll Back Malaria began with a series of in-country consultations in 1998, followed by sub-regional consensus building and inception meetings. The current period is one of momentum building at country level during which national authorities are developing their own strategies with the global partners. It is anticipated that, during the year 2000, RBM movements will become active in at least 30 countries.

Health Services Accessibility↗
PubMed1988

Growth monitoring--inappropriate promotion of an appropriate technology.

Growth monitoring has been identified as an important component of the 'Child Survival and Development Revolution'--an initiative advocated by UNICEF and supported by several other development agencies. In this initiative, improvements in the survival of children are attained through the widespread promotion, distribution and utilisation of selected health maintaining technologies by family members. Health workers, community institutions and welfare services help the family by providing encouragement, support and assistance. Growth monitoring has been identified as one of the key technologies--not only because it helps to promote the satisfactory nutrition of children, but also because it provides an opportunity for uniting other low-cost child health interventions. This paper re-examines the importance of widespread growth monitoring as a part of child care in developing countries. In the early sections, reasons for monitoring the growth of children are examined and the role of growth monitoring in primary health care is considered. The rationale for including growth monitoring in the child survival revolution is explored and the potential benefits of growth monitoring are reviewed. The authors then examine the results that have been achieved, to date, in a variety of programmes where child growth is being monitored. They conclude with a re-assessment of the importance of growth monitoring in child care. If the widespread promotion of growth monitoring is being considered as a means to improve the health of a community's children, three key questions must be answered. What are the risks associated with growth faltering or weight loss? To what extent can different health, educational or welfare interventions reduce these risks?(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1988

[Nutritional problems in developing countries: priorities for the pediatrician].

Problems of nutrition in Third World countries must be approached on several levels with different emphases (a) the child (thoroughly tested and economical treatment); (b) mother and child (information about food given to children at home); (c) household (provision of supplies concentrated on households in which growth retardation is observed in children); (d) national (government health programs aimed at improvement of resources available to needy families mus be intensified); (e) international (with a great many specific socioeconomic problems to be tackled). The priorities in our attempts to solve the problems of adequate nutrition for children must be: analysis of the background to existing malnutrition; the development of standardized approaches; special training for medical and paramedical workers involved; evaluation of results; communication of procedures and results to others.

Child, Preschool↗
PubMed1983

Feeding, illness and nutritional status of young children in rural Gujarat.

Eighty children, aged 0-18 months, were studied over a period of 6 months. Information was obtained from monthly interviews with mothers, when the children were also weighed. Feeding practices, incidence of illness and weight gain were described. The children who were nutritionally most at risk were identified. The average weight of the children was 1 kg less than the NCHS international reference by 3 months, 1.7 kg by 9 months. The majority of mothers did not introduce foods other than breast milk before 9 months. The children from labourers' households gained less weight between 3 and 6 months, had a higher prevalence of malnutrition and more reports of illness than children from non-labourers' households. The implications of these results for workers in child health and nutrition programmes are discussed.

Breast Feeding↗
PubMed1981

Self care--self blame.

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Toward a framework and indicators for monitoring Roll Back Malaria.

Roll Back Malaria (RBM) is a new global partnership that aims to halve the malaria burden by the year 2010. A framework and indicators for monitoring the outcomes and impact of RBM have been defined through an extensive consultative process. The framework identifies critical areas for monitoring RBM action relating to 1) the impact on malaria burden, 2) improvements in malaria prevention and treatment, 3) related health sector development, and 4) support for RBM action (including partnerships). A set of RBM indicators has been defined that corresponds to these critical areas but that reflects the major variations in malaria epidemiology and the principal interventions in different parts of the world. Countries would select indicators that are appropriate for their situation. Four global indicators are proposed for use by all countries in which RBM action is under way. Data collection procedures are discussed, and it is indicated how monitoring RBM action can build on existing data-collection mechanisms.

Communicable Disease Control↗