Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative (CFHI)
CFHI Papers
Paediatric Paper (CFHI website)
Paediatric Nursing Paper (CFHI website)
Kind en ziekenhuis (September 2003)
The Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative (CFHI): An opportunity to improve the experience of health care for children and families everywhere
Child friendly healthcare - A manual for health workers (Available in English & Spanish on the CFHI website)
Download the CFHI Manual in individual sections
Section 1: Introduction, biographies, glossary and contents (PDF file 243kb)
Section 2: The ‘Standards’ and their supporting criteria
Section 2: Standard 1 Keeping children out of hospitals and other health institutions unless this is best for the child (PDF File 315 kb)
Section 2: Standard 2 Supporting and giving the best possible healthcare (PDF file 299kb)
Section 2: Standard 3 Giving healthcare in a secure, clean, child-friendly environment (PDF file 625kb)
Section 2: Standard 4 Giving child centred healthcare (PDF file 548kb)
Section 2: Standard 5 Sharing information and keeping parents and children consistently and fully informed and involved in all decisions (PDF file 386kb)
Section 2: Standard 6 Providing equity of care and treating the child as an individual with rights (PDF file 175kb)
Section 2: Standard 7 Recognising and relieving pain and discomfort (PDF file 132kb)
Section 2: Standard 8 Giving appropriate resusicitation emergency and continuing care for very ill children (PDF file 415kb)
Section 2: Standard 9 Enabling play and learning (PDF file 422kb)
Section 2: Standard 10 Recognising protecting and supporting vunerable or and abused children (PDF file 132kb)
Section 2: Standard 11 Promoting and monitoring health (PDF file 308kb)
Section 2: Standard 12 Supporting the best possible nutrition (PDF file 185kb)
Section 3: How ‘Child Friendly’ are you? (PDF file 317kb)
Section 4: ‘Making it better’ (PDF file 697kb)
Section 5: Useful supporting materials (PDF file 663kb)
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
Checklists, questions and interviews
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
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CFHI Articles
Download a CFHI article in Dutch (PDF, 37KB, CFHI website)
Download a text-only English version of the above CFHI article in Word format (52KB, CFHI website)
CFHI Update
r 2007
Read an update to the Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative (a concept developed by MCAI in conjunction with other organisations).
Download the update (PDF, 131KB, CFHI website)
Further information
International Child Health Care - a practical guide to child health care
Click here to go to the main Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative website