Health system support

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• Health system support
• IMCI IC meeting Tunisia
• September 2003

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IMCI components
Improvement of health providers skills
Improvement of health system support
Improvement of community family practices
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IMCI components

• IMCI implementation in EMR emphasized the
  simultaneous implementation of IMCI components,
  particularly the first two
• The experience showed that IMCI can contribute to
  strengthen the health systems in countries
  (selected elements)

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Elements of health system support

• Most EM IMCI Member States worked to improve
• Availability of drugs / drug management
• Organization of work at HF, task description and
  distribution.
• Improvement of reporting and recording
• Improvement of referral system
• Improvement of quality of supervision (Egypt)
• Planning
• In some countries
• Health insurance and health sector reform
• Stability of trained staff

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Elements of health system support

• The global regional experiences showed that
  IMCI can contribute to strengthen health systems
  in the countries where functioning health systems
  exist.
• As far the health system is concerned, training
  without the elements of health system support is
  not IMCI.

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IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH SYSTEM SUPPORT
IS A KEY ELEMENT OF IMCI SUSTAINABILITY