TY - JOUR
T1 - Child healthcare workers in resource-limited areas improve health with innovative low-cost projects
AU - Duncan, Burris
AU - Mandalakas, Anna
AU - Staton, Donna
AU - Anders, Bron
AU - Kurbasic, Mirzada
AU - Nakakeeto, Margaret
AU - Mustafa, Ghulam
AU - Reyes, Alex
AU - Evangelista, Doris
N1 - Funding Information:
Projects funded by the I-CATCH program
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - Most child health workers in resource-limited communities are dedicated, imaginative, innovative practitioners with ideas that would improve the care of children and families. However, they often lack experience in seeking funds and implementing their ideas. In 2006, the Section on International Child Health in the American Academy of Pediatrics launched a program, I-CATCH to fill this gap. The program provides mentors to assist in writing a proposal for the community-conceived and community-driven idea to improve child health, makes a small amount of funds available to the selected proposals, and offers mentors to help with the project's implementation. To date, 29 projects in 20 different non-industrialized countries have been funded. The impressive results achieved by the four completed and three ongoing projects are presented.
AB - Most child health workers in resource-limited communities are dedicated, imaginative, innovative practitioners with ideas that would improve the care of children and families. However, they often lack experience in seeking funds and implementing their ideas. In 2006, the Section on International Child Health in the American Academy of Pediatrics launched a program, I-CATCH to fill this gap. The program provides mentors to assist in writing a proposal for the community-conceived and community-driven idea to improve child health, makes a small amount of funds available to the selected proposals, and offers mentors to help with the project's implementation. To date, 29 projects in 20 different non-industrialized countries have been funded. The impressive results achieved by the four completed and three ongoing projects are presented.
KW - Child healthcare workers
KW - Mentors
KW - Resource-limited communities
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U2 - 10.1093/tropej/fmr049
DO - 10.1093/tropej/fmr049
M3 - Article
C2 - 21652575
AN - SCOPUS:84859237275
SN - 0142-6338
VL - 58
SP - 120
EP - 124
JO - Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
JF - Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
IS - 2
M1 - fmr049
ER -