Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
by Carol Thuman, David Werner, Jane Maxwell
Book Summary Information
Author: Carol Thuman, David Werner, Jane MaxwellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-05-25
ISBN: 0942364155
Number of pages: 446
Publisher: Hesperian Foundation
Book Reviews of Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
Book Review: BTDT, took the book.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is well worth the space it takes up in your luggage. As a primary care provider, I shouldn't need this, right? But I am also helpless without the supplies and medicines I was accustomed to having at my fingertips. This amazing book includes how to make emergency formula from milk powder, how much of which electrolytes goes into oral rehydration products, ideas for splinting, and emergency dentistry. I left my book there for co-worker's use when I came back and have regretted it - some of the instructions are fine for "where there is a doctor but you don't want to pay an arm and a leg for something you can take care of at home."
Summary of Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
Hesperian's classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is perhaps the most widely-used health care manual in the world.Useful for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs, with millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on mutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems.
This 2007 reprint includes new material on preventing the transmission of blood-borne diseases, how HIV/AIDS is reflected in many health issues, and basic Antiretroviral treatment information, as well as updated information on children and aspirin, stomach ulcers, hepatitis, and malaria treatments.
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