Where There Is No Doctor - Now Online!

08/18/2006

Where There Is No Doctor - Now Online!

You become. It takes a long time…Generally by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
The Velveteen Rabbit (Williams, 1958)

Where There Is No Doctor, the international classic community health care manual, is now available online. Published by the Hesperian Foundation (www.hesperian.org) the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent many common illnesses.

According to the World Health Organization, Where There Is No Doctor is perhaps the most widely used health care manual for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs around the world. With over 90 translations and adaptations of the book available worldwide, and millions of copies in print, the book is an essential health resource for individuals and communities around the world.

Hesperian’s practical, collaborative approach to rural health care publishing goes back to the mid-'70s. Hesperian is now broadening its reach even further with “a commitment to publish online versions of all of our books and to keep those online editions up-to-date, incorporating all corrections and revisions as they are made.” Combined with their “open copyright” policy, which allows other organizations to reproduce, translate, or adapt the manuals for free or at-cost distribution, the online manuals will ensure up-to-date, practical health information will reach the widest audience possible, worldwide.

Additional titles now available online include A Book for Midwives, HIV Health and Your Community, Helping Children Who Are Deaf, A Community Guide to Environmental Health, and Women’s Health Exchange.

Contributed by Kirsten Haugen

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