WHO/TALC materials on the Management of Severe Malnutrition
Given the recent debate and rapidly evolving developments in the management of severe malnutrition, knowledge of current guidelines and training materials and how to access them is essential for field workers. A listing of recent materials on the management of severe malnutrition, distributed by WHO and TALC, is being included in this issue along with details on pricing, language and contact addresses.
| Item | Date | Title | Type material Authors | Description | Distributor Approximate price Language** |
| 1 | 1999 | Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers | Manual 60 pages. WHO | Internationally agreed guidelines on the management of severe malnutrition in young children (and briefly in adults and adolescents) for health staff working at central and district level. | NHD/WHO US$20.70 or SwFr 23.00 (16.10)* Eng, Fre, Span, Port |
| 2 | 2000 | Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition WHO/FCH/CAH/00.1 | Manual with 20-page chapter 'Severe Malnutrition' + appendices. WHO-IMCI | IMCI guidelines for senior health staff responsible for the care of young children at the first referral level in developing countries | CAH/WHO SwFr 15.00 (10.50)* Eng, Fre, Rus TALC £3.50 +pp Eng |
| 3 | 2000 | Treatment of severely malnourished children | Slides + notes for facilitator. Schofield/Ashworth/Burgess | Set of 24 teaching/learning slides for staff in health centres, hospitals and emergency feeding programmes. | TALC From £5.50 +pp Eng |
| 4 | 2001 | Improving the management of severe malnutrition | Training modules (300 pages) on CD-ROM. Ashworth/Schofield (LSHTM) & Puoane/Sanders (UWC) | Trainers' Guide for those running training workshops. It tells how to plan a workshop and contains course materials, handouts and transparencies that participants can use to train their own staff, especially nurses. Clinical setting not required. | LSHTM & UWC Free TALC (see item 7 below) Eng |
| 5 | 2002 | Training course on the management of severe malnutrition WHO/NHD/02.04 | Training guides and 7 modules with support material including a video. WHO | Instructor and Participant Guides (with exercises and photos) for 3-day orientation course for instructors and 6-day training course for senior health workers | NHD/WHO Eng, Span (Fre/Port under prep.) |
| 6 | 2003 | Caring for severely malnourished children | Book 82 pages. Ashworth/Burgess | Based on items 1, 2 and 4 and written for nurses and other health professionals working in resource- poor settings. Sets out the 10 steps and briefly explains the rationale for each one. Includes how to involve mothers in care. | TALC £3.15 +pp Eng |
| 7 | 2003 | Caring for severely malnourished children | CD-ROM. TALC | Contains items 3, 4, 6 and a list of related websites. | TALC £4.50 +pp (includes hard copy of item 6 - CD-ROM not sold separately) Eng |
| 8 | 2003 | Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children | Handbook 48 pages. Ashworth/Khanum/ Jackson/Schofield NHD/WHO | Practical 10-step treatment guidelines similar to the malnutrition section of item 2. Support material for item 5. | NHD/WHO US$ 9.00 or SwFr 10.00 (7.00)* Eng |
Abbreviations, Addresses and Websites
- CAH - Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Fax: +41 22 791 4857, email: cah@who.int, http://www.who.int/child-adolescenthealth/publications/pubIMCI.htm.
- IMCI - Integrated management of childhood illness
- LSHTM - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Fax: +44 207 958 8111, email: ann.hill@lshtm.ac.uk, http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/nphiru
- NHD - Nutrition for Health and Development, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Fax: +41 22 791 4156, email: khanums@who.int, http://www.who.int/nut/publications.htm
- pp - post and packing
- TALC -Teaching-aids At Low Cost, P O Box 49, St Albans AL1 5TX, UK. Fax: +44 1727 846852, email: info@talcuk.org, http://www.talcuk.org
- UWC - University of Western Cape, School of Public Health, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535 Cape, South Africa. Fax: +27 21 959 2872, email: tpuoane@uwc.ac.za or dsanders@uwc.ac.za, http://www.soph.uwc.ac.za
- WHO - World Health Organisation; Marketing & Dissemination, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Fax: +41 22 791 4857, email: publications@who.int, http://bookorders.who.int
Additional materials are also available from several other organisations. Relating to infant feeding in emergencies, Module 1, Infant Feeding in Emergencies for emergency relief staff, is available and accessible online or in print form from ENN. An online version of Module 2, Infant Feeding in Emergencies, for health and nutrition workers, will soon be available from ENN, and will include a section on managing severely malnourished infants aged under 6 months. ENN has also recently published an interagency workshop report, Community based approaches to managing severe malnutrition. For further details, email: office@ennonline.net, or see online at http://www.ennonline.net.
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