Introduction

Integrated community case management of common childhood illness is the management of common childhood illness in the community like pneumonia, malaria and diarrhoea. This is a strategy that integrates all available measures for health promotion, prevention and integrated management of childhood illness. And it improves the quality of child care and reduces child morbidity and mortality in the community.

And also in this study session, you will learn how to manage a sick young infant with a bacterial infection and jaundice from birth up to two months old. Young infants have particular characteristics as compared to old infants that you must consider when classifying their illness because young infants are easily susceptible to different infections as compared to old infants. They can become sick and die very quickly of serious bacterial infections, Such as pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis. You should seriously consider young infants with signs such as decreased or absence of movement, fever, or low body temperature, etc. and follow and give an immediate intervention because the young infant will lose their life within an hour.

In this study session, you will learn about case management process, general danger sign of old and young infants, essential newborn care, assessment and classification of bacterial infection and jaundice, so your responsibility will be to assess carefully and give an intervention for this type of cases.