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Author Howard, Guy.

Title Healthy villages : a guide for communities and community health workers / Guy Howard ; with Claus Bogh [and others]
Published Geneva : World Health Organization, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 108 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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 access to safe water sources or basic sanitation are rural dwellers. Enabling rural populations to protect and improve their health is a major challenge worldwide. In response to this, an informal ''healthy villages'' movement has evolved. A healthy villages project promotes local actions by community member
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-108)
Notes English
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Subject 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
public health.
MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
Rural health services
Public health
Hygiene
Rural health
Sanitation
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Bogh, Claus.
World Health Organization
ISBN 0585468826
9780585468822
9240680659
9789240680654
9789241545532
9241545534
9786610041435
6610041431
1280041439
9781280041433