Background More than 7.5 million children younger than age five living in low‐and middle‐
income countries die every year. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the …

The growing threat from resistant organisms calls for concerted action to prevent the
emergence of new resistant strains and the spread of existing ones. Developing countries …

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a pediatric care management strategy
that has been shown to improve health care service quality and increase health care cost …

The control of infectious diseases is seriously threatened by the steady increase in the
number of micro-organisms that are resistant to antimicrobial agents—often to a wide range …

Purpose To examine the range of prevalence of pediatric polypharmacy in literature through
a scoping review, focusing on factors that contribute to its heterogeneity in order to improve …

OBJECTIVE: The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy is designed to
address the five leading causes of childhood mortality, which together account for 70% of …

This study assessed the state of health economic evaluation (including pharmacoeconomic)
research in Nigeria. A literature search was conducted to identify health economic articles …

Background Fever is one of the most frequently encountered pediatric problems, accounting
for 25% of visits to pediatric emergency room. There is no specific standardized approach to …

Every year, more than 10 million children under five years of age die. Most of those deaths
are due to a small number of causes. In the mid 1990s, it was estimated that 70 percent of all …

Objective To find out drug treatment cost per illness per patient admitted to pediatric ward.
Methods Patients admitted to pediatric ward over a period of 1 year were studied without …