Tajikistan - Quality of Child Health Services
The Government of Tajikistan has identified Primary Heath Care (PHC), and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) as top priorities in its first Comprehensive National Health Sector Strategy (2010-2020). The study findings which closely mirror those of the...
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Language: | English |
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World Bank
2012
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Summary: | The Government of Tajikistan has
identified Primary Heath Care (PHC), and Maternal and Child
Health (MCH) as top priorities in its first Comprehensive
National Health Sector Strategy (2010-2020). The study
findings which closely mirror those of the 2009 World Health
Organization (WHO)/United Nation children's Fund
(UNICEF) Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
survey will be of great concern to the Ministry of Health
and should provide the impetus to take immediate remedial
actions. Much remains to be done to improve the overall
quality of primary health care services for under-five
children. Two main issues are highlighted by this study.
Firstly, the quality of primary health care services
provided to children is lacking in many areas, irrespective
of the PHC provider's type of training. Second, is that
the family medicine and IMCI training programs and methods
require further enhancement to ensure that the service
quality for children improves. The study also finds that
supervision of PHC workers is irregular, and training does
not seem to be performed systematically to improve
children's health outcomes. |
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