Child Health
Assess, classify, and treat every child under five, by the protocol, every time.
The Challenge
Child health programs track services, screenings, and interventions across a child’s development, often on disconnected systems.
Reaching families at home
Many children are followed through household visits far from clinics.
Complex care protocols
Workers must follow detailed, age-specific clinical guidelines.
Tracking referrals and follow-up
Sick children need timely referral and confirmed follow-up.
Follow the protocol at every consultation
- Guide workers through Integrated Management of Childhood Illness assessment with skip logic
- Auto-classify symptoms and recommend the right treatment
- Document every encounter offline, per child
Track growth and catch malnutrition early
- Record weight, height, and MUAC with automatic Z-scores
- Flag growth status and immunizations due at each visit
- Keep one longitudinal record across every visit
Close every loop from community to facility
- Generate structured referrals with diagnosis and urgency
- Notify the facility and confirm the child was seen
- Flag overdue referrals so no case falls through
Example Dashboard Integration
See the program across every region
- Track screening, danger signs, and coverage on one dashboard
- Break results down by region and indicator
- Push straight to DHIS2 and national health information systems
Child health programs built on CommCare
From Burkina Faso to Kenya, here’s what child health programs have shipped on the platform.
Terre des Hommes: 4,000+ nurses, 200,000 children per month, now owned by the Ministry of Health
Terre des Hommes built the REC (Electronic Register of Consultations) on CommCare to enforce Integrated Management of Childhood Illness protocol adherence across 729 clinics in Burkina Faso. The system now supports 4,000+ nurses serving 200,000 children monthly, fully owned by the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health.
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TulaSalud: child and maternal health in Guatemala’s northern highlands
Frontline workers use CommCare decision support, WHO growth Z-scores, and referral coordination to care for children in some of the Americas’ highest-mortality communities.
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Upscale: Integrated Community Case Management nationally
A CommCare-based iCCM system gives community health workers across Mozambique guided diagnosis and treatment for pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria, with direct DHIS2 integration.
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USAID Digital Health Activity: child health in Ethiopia’s national eCHIS
With JSI and Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health, Dimagi builds the national eCHIS that Health Extension Workers use for immunization, growth monitoring, and sick-child care.
Read the case studySick-child care to healthy growth, across every use case.
Use the power of CommCare to run child health programs end to end, across every use case.
One platform, every workflow.
From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your child health program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.
- No-code workflows for frontline teams
- Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
- Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting