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Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

of David Werner, Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell

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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 2010 reprint features updated medicines, plus information on tuberculosis and HIV, including guidelines for anti-retroviral therapy and preventing HIV in babies.

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 446 pages
  • Publisher Hesperian Foundation
  • Publication Date January 1st 1992
  • First Publication 10/28/77
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780942364156
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Non-Fiction
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