Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook |  | Authors: Jane Maxwell, Carol Thuman, David Werner, Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell
Publisher: Hesperian Foundation
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Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 2845
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 446
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0942364155
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9780942364156
ASIN: 0942364155
Publication Date: May 25, 1992
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Product Description
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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 Prepared for a disaster? November 10, 2009
Weyland Billingsley (Ellijay, GA United States)
This book was recommended to me by a nurse who had been on a number of medical missions to Africa. After looking through it, I believe that it would be a necessary reference book for anyone who might be able to access modern medical resources. There are many such situations ranging from a hurricane such as Katrina, or living in an area where medical resources are not readily available. It is a little large to be carried in a backpack but if you are going on an expedition it would be a good resource. There are many books which are supposedly "home medical guides" but most are written for people in the US who are 5 minutes from a pharmacy or hospital. This book gives you specific medical details that you might need in any emergency. For example childbirth...a lot of detail but in simple language with line drawings. Follow the directions and you too could help birth a child! I would recommend this for everyone's library but especially missionaries in rural areas. Spanish available.
 BTDT, took the book. August 21, 2009
Hervian Rose
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."
Great resource July 6, 2009
Janet W. Elsea
I bought this for our yearly trips to Haiti. It contains invaluable information. The only thing that would be better is if it were spiral bound so it could lay flat. Otherwise it covers all the bases
what I think May 31, 2009
w causey
fist thing fist I'm as backpacker and survival instructor. most of the books I read deal with fist aid and truma [ sorry bad speller] long term village hearth care is not my thing. if it's your thing plaese buy this book and use's it , it will help ,most of this book is on preventive medicine and pregnancy and prenatal care, that fall out of my frield of need . it not A bad book but not great for me
Read this before you go! May 29, 2009
emmaus (Nuka Pass, AK)
This may not be the be all end all, but read at home before the adventure begins , it will get one ready to ask the right questons, and be better preped for what remote intails! Lots of usable info, tech, and prevention!
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