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The Literature of Medicine |15 December 1996

Reviews and Notes: Where There Is No Doctor. A Village Health Care Handbook

William A. Reynolds, MD

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Home health care manuals are a dime a dozen, but this one is in a league by itself. Readers may be surprised to find a review in Annals of a handbook designed primarily for nonphysicians in the Third World, but this book will have great appeal for anyone who is interested or involved in improving health and medical care in the rural areas of Third World nations. The authors have presented information clearly and in simple language for ordinary persons to use in preventing and treating most common health problems in their own homes and villages. The book is ideally suited for use as a text and as a guide for instructing medically unschooled villagers in assessing and dealing with the various aspects of health, including housing, sanitation, nutrition, and disease prevention. Basic information on topics ranging from food preparation to plans for building improved latrines is clearly spelled out. The underlying role that inequitable land distribution and poverty play in causing many health problems and obstacles to improvement is highlighted, but not to the exclusion of an optimistic approach to dealing with most health issues.
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Reynolds WA. Reviews and Notes: Where There Is No Doctor. A Village Health Care Handbook. Ann Intern Med. ;125:1023. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-12-199612150-00037

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