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WEBWelcome to HealthWrights, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups.We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual …

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Where There Is No Doctor

WEBWhere 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 millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how …

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About HealthWrights

WEBMission. HealthWrights is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to advancing the health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged persons and groups. We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect for cultural and individual …

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Helping Health Workers Learn

WEBHelping Health Workers Learn is an indispensable resource for all health educators. This heavily illustrated book shows how to make health education engaging and effective, while emphasizing a people-centered approach to care. It also presents strategies for effective community involvement through participatory education.

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Toward a Healthier World

WEBToward a Healthier World: Methods and Action for Change To give some impetus to this last day of the People’s Health Assembly, the Planning Committee asked me to give a so-called “inspirational address.” I guess they want me to say something hopeful, something optimistic, that motivates all of us to keep slogging away in the up …

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The Village Health Worker

WEBHis brother had been shot in the stomach. Now Martin, as a village health worker supported through the community, earns 1,600 pesos ($80.00) a month, which is in line with what the other villagers earn. But the surgeon charged 20,000 pesos ($1000.00) for two hours of surgery. Martin is stuck with the bill.

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Disabled Village Children

WEBDisabled Village Children: A Guide for Community Health Workers, Rehabilitation Workers, and Families David Werner (1987) This book represents the fruits of a decade of the efforts of PROJIMO, and aims to empower and inspire disabled village workers in their efforts to build community health and rehabilitation programs. The story …

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The Politics of Health Knowledge Network

WEB2002: The First Politics of Health Website The frontpage in 2003. Here is the statement of purpose from the Politics of Health website: The Politics of Health Knowledge Network is a forum for the exploration of the impact of political decisions on health.

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Empowerment and Health

WEBSelective primary health care, with its focus largely on technical interventions, on products rather than process, on survival rather than quality of life, on social marketing rather than awareness raising, on compliance rather than true participation, on private enterprise rather than collective action, and on courting the support of NGOs, …

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#.1 The Life and Death of Primary Health Care: Presented to the …

WEBThe Life and Death of Primary Health Care: Presented to the UN ‘Global Summit’ (1995) by David Werner In the Alma Ata Declaration on 1978, the world’s nations affirmed that both health and health care are basic human rights. But in recent years, for growing numbers of destitute people the possibilities of receiving adequate health …

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The Return of Health for All

WEBThe Return of Health for All: Introduction (World Nutrition) Editor’s Note ‘Politics is medicine writ large’ said the politician, pathologist and founder of social medicine Rudolf Virchow. Next month the World Health Organization World Health Assembly (WHA) will convene. This and next month World Nutrition looks at the big picture that confronts …

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Globalizing Poor Health

WEBGlobalizing Poor Health More worrisome, still, is the imposition by the US of its unhealthy policies and practices on the rest of the world. The US government has increasingly become a lackey of giant corporations. As the world’s remaining Superpower, it imposes its power and influence in ways that put corporate profit before the health of …

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Questioning the Solution

WEBQuestioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival. This book analyzes why 13 million children still die every year from preventable causes and challenges conventional Primary Health Care and Child Survival Strategies. Too often, health and development planners try to use technological fixes rather than …

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Looking at Learning and Teaching

WEBLooking at Learning and Teaching A health worker's most important job is to teach-to encourage sharing of knowledge, skills, experiences, and ideas. The health worker's activities as an

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PART LEARNING THROUGH SEEING, DOING, AND THINKING

WEBPart Two-2 If health workers are to become leaders who will defend the interests of the poor, their training must help them learn to use the tools best suited for this

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The Life and Death of Primary Health Care or The McDonaldization …

WEBPublication Information A talk given at a seminar organized by: Medicine for the People Medical Aid for the Third World International People’s Health Council Dworp, Belgium, December 4, 1993 Author Contact: International People’s Health Council, Northern Region C/O Healthwrights c/o Jason Weston 3897 Hendricks Road Lakeport …

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Homemade, Low-Cost Equipment and Written Materials

WEBHOMEMADE STETHOSCOPES A stethoscope is a hollow tube that makes it easier to listen for sounds inside a person's chest or belly: breathing in the lungs, heartbeats, and gurgling ir! the belly.

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Making and Using Teaching Aids

WEBMaking and Using Teaching Aids AN OLD CHINESE SAYING: J IF I HEAR IT, 1 FORGET IT. YOU CAN EASILY MAKE A GRAIN STORAGE BIN OUT I YOU CAN MAKE IT LIKE THIS. r IF I SEE IT, I REMEMBER IT. 1 IF I DO IT, I KNOW IT. We all learn best when we take an active part in finding out things that are

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