Child health and development | News | 2009 | National Health Facility Survey on the Quality of Outpatient Primary Child Health Care Services", Morocco, October – December 2007

National Health Facility Survey on the Quality of Outpatient Primary Child Health Care Services", Morocco, October – December 2007

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MorReport07The report on the “National Health Facility Survey on the Quality of Outpatient Primary Child Health Care Services" (IMCI Health facility Survey) conducted in Morocco at the end of 2007 is now available on this website, together with the survey instruments and adapted guidelines. Conducted after seven years of expanded implementation of the Integrated Management of Child Health (IMCI) strategy in the country, the survey had the main objective to collect quantitative and qualitative information to assess the quality of outpatient health care services, including both the clinical and health system support components, provided by IMCI-trained staff to sick children below 5 years old at health centres. The survey report provides a wealth of information, critically analyzed, useful to inform planning. It contains a set of few recommendations to improve the quality of primary child care services in the country. The recommendations concern the utilization of primary health care services, improving the policy on medicines to provide equitable access to medicines for children and developing a national child health policy and scaling up IMCI implementation as part of the commitment to Millennium Development Goal 4 on reducing child mortality. The role of IMCI pre-service education is also highlighted.