Abstract
Care groups and community-based approaches for improved maternal and child survival and development
Highlights
The principle drive for promoting and clarifying the concept of care in relation to young child nutrition originated in UNICEF several decades ago
Prior to 1990, UNICEF health-oriented efforts had largely concentrated on the promotion of a small group of interventions such as growth monitoring, oral rehydration, breastfeeding, and immunization that gained the acronym GOBI (Cash et al, 1987) during the time of a very top-down “Child Survival Revolution”
Government workers had to be trained to build the capacity of community volunteers to facilitate household and community level Triple A processes
Summary
The principle drive for promoting and clarifying the concept of care in relation to young child nutrition originated in UNICEF several decades ago. Prior to 1990, UNICEF health-oriented efforts had largely concentrated on the promotion of a small group of interventions such as growth monitoring, oral rehydration, breastfeeding, and immunization that gained the acronym GOBI (Cash et al, 1987) during the time of a very top-down “Child Survival Revolution”.
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