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Comment on "South Vietnamese Rural Mothers' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Child Health Care".

Madhavi Bhargava1.   

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Year:  2016        PMID: 27515555      PMCID: PMC4969532          DOI: 10.1155/2016/7894746

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Biomed Res Int            Impact factor:   3.411


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The paper by Thac et al. is an important paper from the point of view of health care providers and policy makers in the context of Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) in developing countries like India [1]. IMCI is an integrated approach which includes three main components [2]:The paper highlights the importance of the third and valuable component of IMCI, that is, “improving family and community health practices” by health education of mothers of under-five children. The figures mentioned in the paper clearly show that it is successful in achieving this third component. Improving case management skills of health-care staff. Improving overall health systems. Improving family and community health practices. India has made notable strides in tackling neonatal and childhood illnesses through a number of initiatives. These are in the form of addition of neonatal component in IMCI (IMNCI), training of community level grass-root workers such as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and Anganwadi Workers (AWW), Home Based Neonatal Care (HBNC), facility based IMNCI, infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF), and Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) to name a few [3]. Health education and training of grass-root workers are being done in India, but organized component of health education of mothers needs to be incorporated for improving health practices at family and community level. This can be systematically introduced at national level using the community based platforms of Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNC) and Mahila Arogya Samitis (MAS) in India.
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1.  South Vietnamese Rural Mothers' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Child Health Care.

Authors:  Dinh Thac; Freddy Karup Pedersen; Tang Chi Thuong; Le Bich Lien; Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh; Nguyen Ngoc Phuc
Journal:  Biomed Res Int       Date:  2016-01-03       Impact factor: 3.411

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