A How To Guide For Health And Development
Apr 25th, 2008 | By admin | Category: HealthFrom starting tree nurseries to properly disposing of solid waste, a new guide offers simple solutions to help communities around the planet improve their quality of life.
The Hesperian Foundation, a non-profit publisher based in Berkeley, California, has just produced A Community Guide to Environmental Health. The book focuses on grassroots solutions for poor communities dealing with health and sustainability issues.
The Hesperian Foundation is best known for their book, Where There Is No Doctor, billed as “perhaps the most widely used health care manual in the developing world.” The book was created for use by health workers and villagers in developing countries.
During its research, the Hesperian Foundation concluded that issues of health and sustainability are inextricably linked with the right of a community to control its own access to essential resources. To learn more about indigenous community views toward food sovereignty, visit Via Campesina.
Friends and supporters of Grassroots International may be familiar with Hesperian Foundation, a non-profit publisher of community health education materials, best known for Where There Is No Doctor, recognized by WHO as “the most widely-used health manual in the world.”
With this month’s publication of the long-anticipated A Community Guide to Environmental Health, Hesperian celebrates more than just the release of another book. It allows us all to celebrate and learn from the myriad ways in which people at the grassroots can and do take control over their own environmental health.
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