Collins Steve
Centre for International Health and Development and Valid International Ltd, Unit 14 Standingford House, 26 Cave Street, Oxford OX4 1BA, UK.
Arch Dis Child. 2007 May;92(5):453-61. doi: 10.1136/adc.2006.098327.
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) affects approximately 13 million children under the age of 5 and is associated with 1-2 million preventable child deaths each year. In most developing countries, case fatality rates (CFRs) in hospitals treating SAM remain at 20-30% and few of those requiring care actually access treatment. Recently, community-based therapeutic care (CTC) programmes treating most cases of SAM solely as outpatients have dramatically reduced CFRs and increased the numbers receiving care. CTC uses ready-to-use therapeutic foods and aims to increase access to services, promoting early presentation and compliance, thereby increasing coverage and recovery rates. Initial data indicate that this combination of centre-based and community-based care is cost effective and should be integrated into mainstream child survival programmes.
重度急性营养不良影响着约1300万5岁以下儿童,每年导致100万至200万例可预防的儿童死亡。在大多数发展中国家,治疗重度急性营养不良的医院病死率仍为20%-30%,而需要治疗的患者中很少有人能真正获得治疗。最近,主要将大多数重度急性营养不良病例作为门诊治疗的社区治疗护理(CTC)项目显著降低了病死率,并增加了接受治疗的人数。社区治疗护理使用即食治疗食品,旨在增加服务可及性,促进早就诊和依从性,从而提高覆盖率和康复率。初步数据表明,这种基于中心和基于社区的护理相结合具有成本效益,应纳入儿童生存主流项目。