Promoting Child Survival in Rural Districts in East Malaysia

Abstract

In developing countries, local health authorities do improve health care delivery system based on the results from the studies conducted by the Institutes and Universities. This paper is to introduce an example of such project in East Malaysia. Project to promote child survival has been carrying out for one rural district in Sabah, East Malaysia. The phase I study is collection of baseline data or situational analysis, Phase II is intervention program (health education) and Phase III is evaluation of the intervention program. In Phase I study, five categories of variable for determinants of child survival were socioeconomic determinants, maternal factors, environmental factors, nutritional factors and health service utilization factors. Based on the findings from Phase I study, a number of intervention programs are now being implemented.