Resources

Healthy Child Uganda Training Manuals

Community Owned Resource Person Manual - English

Community Owned Resource Person Manual - Runyankole

Trainers Manual - English

null A Canadian volunteer training trainers who then lead CORP training and support CORP activities.

To provide feedback on any of the above manuals please email:hcu@ucalgary.ca

Other Resources

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)

null IMCI is a strategy developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF in order to address health system constraints in developing countries. These constraints often result in poor assessment and treatment of children. This is espeically true on the village level where a basic health care provider often only has months rather than years of formal health education, has only a handful of drug options and little to no health equipment. IMCI forms the basis for all HCU program development. At the university level, HCU support for IMCI student training and placements, faculty training and research have helped identify MUST as a leader in community-based child health programming.

For more information on Integrated Mangement of Childhood Illness:

http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/integr.htm

http://www.childinfo.org/eddb/imci/index.htm

IMCI in Uganda

Implementation of a National Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Program in Uganda (PDF)

Improving facility-based care for sick children in Uganda: training is not enough (PDF)

UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG)

The Millenium Development Goals are a framework or 'blueprint' that were created and agreed upon by every country in the world with the ultimate objective of meeting the needs of the worlds poor and vulnerable. There are eight goals and the fourth one 'Reduce Child Mortality' is the objective of Healthy Child Uganda. In order to substantially reduce Under Five Child Mortality by two thirds by 2015, there must be an emphasis on community outreach, maternal and newborn care.

For more information on the Millenium Development Goals:

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/#

http://www.undp.org/mdg/

http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/index.htm

Uganda: Health, Social and Economic Development

Human Development Indicators for Uganda:

http://hdrstats.undp.org/countries/country_fact_sheets/cty_fs_UGA.html

Uganda at a Glance - World Bank 2007 (PDF)

Latest Emergency and Development Updates on Uganda:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc104?OpenForm&rc=1&cc=uga

Articles on Child Health in Uganda:

Risk Factors for Early Childhood Malnutrition in Uganda (Kikafunda et al. 1998)

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/102/4/e45

Mothers' education but not fathers' education, household assets or land ownership is the best predictor of child health inequalities in rural Uganda (Wamani et al. 2004)

http://equityhealthj.com/content/pdf/1475-9276-3-9.pdf

The burden of traditional practices, ebino and tea-tea, on child health in Northern Uganda (Accorsi 2003)

http://www.sciencedirect.com