The BMJ in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are launching a special collection of articles that will explore how to achieve ambitious child health goals to safeguard the health and wellbeing of children across the world.
The collection shares findings from a review of implementation of two leading global child health strategies; examines current best practices; and considers future needs when rethinking global and national child health programmes.
The collection also aims to stimulate discussion and exchange between stakeholders at global, regional, and national levels, and provide a basis for policy and strategy changes.
To address these issues, two global child health strategies were developed - Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) and integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) - which have now been adopted in over 100 countries.
In 2016, a strategic review examined the contributions of these strategies and set out five key challenges.
These include the need for adequate and coordinated funding, more attention on each country context, better integration of new evidence into policy and programmes, closer partner collaboration to support countries, and more accountability for child health, both internationally and nationally.
WHO and UNICEF have a special responsibility for global child health, and as such, have proposed a five point plan to address these challenges, with a focus on joint working to drive progress.
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