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Even though mental illnesses are common and cause great suffering in every part of the world, many health workers have a limited understanding about mental health and are less comfortable dealing with mental illness. This book is a practical manual for mental health care for the community health...
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This publication reports on soil conservation and management in developing countries.
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This book covers a wide range of topics, including maternal and child services, tropical medicine and surgery, epidemic and infectious diseases, leprosy and tuberculosis, sanitation, community health programmes, rehabilitation of the handicapped, nursing and medical education, and the sprecial...
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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.
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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...
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This booklet has been written for community development workers in developing countries who are not technicians in the area of water resources. It is meant to serve as a general guide when planning environmentally sound small-scale water projects, that is, projects which protect and conserve...
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The purpose of this Soils Bulletin is to summarize the soil erosion problem and to focus attention on remedial measures available with particular reference to the lands under traditional forms of agriculture in the developing countries. It is hope that the Bulletin will be of assistance to field...
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Written with Howard W. Buffett, and with a foreword by Warren Buffett,40 Chancesis an "inspiring manifesto...both an informative guidebook and a catalyst for igniting real changes" (Booklist) in the struggle against world hunger. If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in...
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This book emphasizes the importance of social, economic, and environmental considerations when planning and implementing projects. For rural development workers, it aims to fill the gap in existing literature on the gathering and storage of water.
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This document identifies some ofthe problems of the PHC approach as revealed by a review of the first generation of PHC projects supported by the U.S.Agency for International Development(AID.) It is the first instance in which a substantial number of primary health care projects supported and...