Bringing affordable healthcare to the developing world

Medical Assessment

Illness

This section is under development. If you have suggestions please email Dr Marci Thiel at marci@worlddoctor.org

Children

You can run our demonstration algorithm for the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (WHO/UNICEF) from the link on our Home page. Note that this does not yet include HIV/AIDS care. Sources used in this guideline include:

IMCI Handbook
IMCI Chart Book
Technical updates to IMCI
Severe Acute Malnutrition


To be incorporated in the future:

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Complementary course on HIV/AIDS

Adolescents and adults

The guidelines on the Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness (IMAI) can be incorporated in the same way as those for children, and can incorporate HIV/AIDS care.

All

Problems not currently covered in the guidelines above will be assessed initially through tested triage guidelines with a view toward automating validated guidelines for developing countries as they become available.

Injury

Guidelines for automation are being sought for injuries in developing countries. If you have suggestions please email Dr Marci Thiel at marci@worlddoctor.org

Clinical decision rules for poisonings and burns in children under 5 years of age are under development by the WHO. We await the release of these rules for these topics.

References:

  1. Injuries in Children, WHO http://www.emro.who.int/cah/research.htm#Section3
  2. The injury chart Book: A graphical overview of the global burden of injuries, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2002 http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/924156220X.pdf

Mental Health

Guidelines for automation are being sought for mental health problems in developing countries. If you have suggestions please email Dr Marci Thiel at marci@worlddoctor.org

Guidelines should be in consonance with:

  • WHO’s mental health global action programme (mhGAP), and
  • The recommendations of the World Health Report 2001 (devoted to mental health, including neurological disorders)

Reference:

  1. Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World (2001) Institute of Medicine (IOM) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10111#toc