Summary of Study Session 1
In Study Session 1, you have learned that:
- IMNCI aims to reduce death, illness and disability, and to promote improved growth and development among children under five years of age.
- The IMNCI strategy addresses the major causes of under-five morbidity and mortality which are responsible for more than 90% of the mortality, namely pneumonia, neonatal problems, diarrhoea, malaria, measles and malnutrition.
- The IMNCI case management process involves a stepwise approach consisting of the following elements: assessment, classification, treatment, counselling and follow-up.
- All children aged two months up to five years should be checked first for the five general danger signs: inability to drink or breastfeed, vomiting everything, history of convulsions during the current illness, lethargy or unconsciousness and convulsions now.
- A child with any general danger sign should be referred urgently after receiving urgent pre-referral treatment.
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1.5 General danger signs (GDS)