CHILD HEALTH Flashcards
CHILD SURVIVAL GOAL
Reducing childhood mortality and ensuring the fullest potential for development
Most common causes off child deaths
Neonatal mortality
Post neonatal mortality
Infant mortality
Under 5 mortality
Diseases responsible for majority of deaths in low-income countries
Pneumonia
Diarrhea
Malaria
Parameters of the estimated 6.3 million deaths in 2017
Newborns- 2.5 mil
1-11months- 1.6 mil
1-4 years- 1.3 mil
5-9 years- 0.6 mil
10-14 years- 0.4 mil
Risk factors for malnutrition
Early introduction of complementary feeding
No breastfeeding
Poor quality of food
Insufficient food
Disease
Newborn care issues
Neonatal asphyxia
Neonatal tetanus
Neonatal feeding/breastfeeding
Neonatal infections (others)
Prematurity
Socio-economic activity and disease
Low birth weight
Increased hospital admissions
Injuries
Special educational needs
Malnutrition
Behavioural problems
Child abuse
Main direct cause of childhood mortality in africa
Infections
Diseases that cause 70% of child deaths in Africa
Acute respiratory infections
Diarrhoea
Measles
Malnutrition
Neonatal conditions such as suffocation, prematurity and low birth weight
Focus of child survival in africa
Newborn care
Infant and young child feeding
Deworming
Preventing malaria
Immunization of mothers and children
PMTCT of HIV
Managing commin illnesses
Delivery strategies
approaches used to reach children and mothers with the interventions they need
Rationale for child survival strategies
to optimize child survival, growth and development and reduce under five mortality
Preventive interventions for diarrhea
Breastfeeding
Complementary feeding
Vit A
Zinc
Water, sanitation, hygiene
Preventive measures for pneumonia
Breastfeeding
Complementary feeding
Hib Vaccine
Zinc
Preventive interventions for measles
Complementary feeding
Vit A
Measles vaccine
Preventive measures for malaria
Insecticide treated materials
Complementary feeding
Zinc
Vitamin A
Preventive measures for HIV
Nevirapine and replacement feeding
Preventive measures for preterm delivery
Insecticide treated materials
Antenatal steroids
Newborn temperature management
Antibiotics for premature rapture of membranes
IPT in pregnancy
Preventive measures for neonatal tetanus
Tetanus toxoid
Clean delivery
Preventive measures for neonatal sepsis
Breastfeeding
Antibiotics for premature rapture of membranes
Clean delivery
Treatment for measles
Vit A
Treatment for neonatal asphyxia
Newborn resuscitation
Three categories of interventions
Child health promotion
Disease prevention/control
Early management of childhood illnesses (IMCI)
Interventions for child health promotion
Growth monitoring
Breastfeeding/ Nutrition
Interventions for disease prevention/ control
Hygiene and sanitation
Immunisation
ITNs
Interventions under early management of childhood illnesses
Malaria
Acute respiratory diseases
Diarrheal diseases
Measles
Common neonatal infections
TB
HIV/AIDS
4+ elements of UNICEF campaign (GOBIFFFEETH)
Growth monitoring
Oral rehydration
Breast feeding
Immunisation
Family planning
Food supplementation
Female education
Environmental protection and sanitation
Essential drug program
Treatment of common illnesses
Health education
immunisation
biological process of conferring protection in a human host against infectious agents in the environment
vaccination
inducing primary response in a person such that on first contact with the corresponding pathogen, a rapid secondary (memory response) is mounted, leading to prevention of disease
symptoms
Types of vaccines
Live attenuated/ weakened
Inactivated/killed
Subunit/Fractional
Future vaccines
Examples of future vaccines
DNA based
Vector based
Peptide and lipopeptide based
Therapeutic vaccines
Gh vaccines at birth
BCG
OPV-0