Impact to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Implementation in Developing Countries: A Literature Review

Background: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is needed to address infant mortality in sub-Saharan African and South Asian countries of 11 million cases, due to diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, measles, malnutrition and newborn care problems. (IMCI) is an approach to sick children carried out integrated by combining promotion, prevention, and treatment services for the five leading causes of death in infants and child’s in developing countries. IMCI is used as a service standard for sick infants and childhood illness and a guideline for health workers, especially nurses and midwives and doctors in primary health care facilities. IMCI contributes significantly to reducing the mortality rate of neonates, infants and child if implemented widely, properly, and correctly.

Purpose: To determine the key of impact to the implementation on integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI).

Methods: The design of this study uses systematic review, namely literature research that assess of critically quality health journals, which have been filtered with inclusion criteria and used several Google Scholar, Science Direct and Research Gate databases as literacy in this study. There were 215 results according to the keyword Impact, implementation IMCI and perceptions.

Results: the factors causes to implementation IMCI are supervised by head community health, district authority, attitude of health workers, logistics support, experience, knowledge, and perception of health staffs trained on IMCI determine in process application in each health facility.

Conclusion: Leadership, logistic support, monitoring and supervision and coordination has as impact on IMCI implementation process.