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Child Friendly Healthcare - a manual for health workers
Paediatric Nursing is promoting the use of these universally applicable CFHI Standards and the accompanying toolkit.
This is an assessment and implementation manual about ‘Child Friendly Healthcare’ (CFH) written for health workers who plan, organise, provide or give care to children and their families. The manual defines CFH by translating the articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into simple CFH ‘Standards’ that are applicable to everyday healthcare practices.
It provides a method and process for assessing these and a simple structure for making any wanted or needed improvements so that children and their families everywhere can receive the ‘best possible’ healthcare, regardless of circumstance.
Read the authors' update article from October 2007's Paediatric Nursing.
Download complete manual
Download the complete CFHI Manual (3.31mb) »
(excludes Tool 1 & 2 and Appendix - see below)
Download manual by section
Please use the links below to download the CFHI Manual in individual sections
Introduction, biographies, glossary and contents (243kb) »
Section 1: Why a ‘Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative’ (CFHI)? (237kb) »
Section 2: The ‘Standards’ and their supporting criteria
Introduction, Standard 1 and 2 (368kb) »
Section 2: Standard 3 (546kb) »
Section 2: Standard 4 and 5 (539kb) »
Section 2: Standard 6, 7 and 8 (616kb) »
Section 2: Standard 9 and 10 (292kb) »
Section 2: Standard 11 and 12 (295kb) »
Section 3: How ‘Child Friendly’ are you? (267kb) »
Download tools
- PART 1
A check list for children’s healthcare - PART 2
Interview or questionnaire for health workers - PART 3
Interview with parents / carers and/or older school age children
STANDARDS 1-12 (296kb)
Checklists, questions and interviews
Download appendix
Includes examples of:
- An evaluation form
- A format for writing an assessment report
- A policy for preventing and managing a needle stick injury
- Data that can be collected to provide information about a population’s health
- A toy safety policy
- A consent form
- Essential equipment, medical supplies and drugs for emergencies
- Organising and running a training course
- Writing and funding a project proposal
More information and other resources are available from the CFHI website at www.cfhiuk.org
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