Healthy villages : a guide for communities and community health workers /

Health is determined by many factors, including income, environmental conditions - such as access to adequate sanitation and safe water supplies - individual behaviour, and health services. More than half of the world's population lives in villages and rural areas and most of those without acce...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Howard, Guy
Corporate Author: World Health Organization
Other Authors: Bogh, Claus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2002.
Subjects:
Rural health > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Sanitation > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Hygiene.
Rural health.
Rural health services.
Public health.
Rural Health Services
Community Health Planning
Hygiene
Sanitation > methods
Rural Health
Public Health
Santé rurale.
Services de santé rurale.
Santé publique.
Santé rurale > Guides, manuels, etc.
Salubrité publique > Guides, manuels, etc.
Services communautaires de santé > Planification.
Hygiène.
public health.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
Rural health services
Public health
Rural health
Sanitation
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Achieving good health; Chapter 3. Water; Chapter 4. Excreta disposal; Chapter 5. Drainage; Chapter 6. Solid waste management and chemical safety; Chapter 7. Housing quality; Chapter 8. Personal, domestic and community hygiene; Chapter 9. Promoting hygiene; Chapter 10. Providing health care; Chapter 11. Establishing committees for implementing Healthy Villages programmes; Annex 1. Organizations supporting Healthy Villages initiatives; Annex 2. Books and manuals providing further advice.

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