The Medicine Show is a bookful of down-to-earth, needed information. Most chapters are drawn from material published over the years in Consumer Reports. The book concludes on a note of particular helpfulness, with counsel on choosing both a doctor and a hospital, and with some basic facts about...
Don Stephens, a Colorado farm boy, is certainly an unlikely hero. And turning a decrepit ocean liner into a floating hospital seems improbable at best. And yet that is exactly what happened twenty-five years ago. Because of the efforts of Stephens, his fleet of ships, and his "navy" of...
Many of the procedures in primary care are common to all levels of worker, so we have deliberately addressed it to any 'health worker' who can read this manual and who provide primary care, usually with little opportunity to refer children for help It is the outcome of an attempt to answer the...
2010-01-20 Community Development: Building Through Knowledge and Service Publisher[United States] : World Impact Now Ministries, [2010] Media:DVD Summary: A comprehensive series ranging in topics from; hygiene, familyhealth, basic agriculture, basic medical care, and child development. Description: 20 disc...
Practising Health for All presents a wide range of case studies depicting typical problems that arise in the implementation of primary health care--and how these can be overcome.
This manual is written for health workers who care for sick persons in places where there is no doctor. It is for those who already have some training in diseases and in caring for sick persons. The book shows how, by taking a good history and doing a careful examination, the health worker can...
This guide provides managers, such as district medical officers, senior nurses, and midwives, with a wide variety of instruments for measuring some variables that determine the quality of primary child care. With these you can make a service diagnosis to find out where your present services fell...