Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women - Softcover

A. August Burns; Ronnie Lovich; Jane Maxwell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0942364252 ISBN 13: 9780942364255

Publisher: Hesperian Health Guides, 2020

Synopsis

This 2014 printing features updated antiretroviral information based on new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines to treat HIV and prevent mother-to-child transmission. Other updated topics include: treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI's); family planning; cervical, breast and other cancers; eclampsia; care for women who have had abortions; and medicines. All Hesperian books are regularly updated and reprinted to reflect accurate medical information.

Where Women Have No Doctor has been written to help women care for their own health, and to help community health workers or others to meet women's health needs problems that affect specifically women, or that affect women in different ways from men. It combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways in which poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs may limit women's health or access to care.

Developed with community-based groups and medical experts from more than 30 countries, this book aims to help anyone understand, treat and prevent many of the health problems that can affect women. Topics featured in the book include: how to solve health problems; ways to stay healthy; understanding the reproductive parts of women's bodies; sexual health; HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases; pregnancy, birth and breast feeding; mental health; health concerns of women with disabilities, girls, older women and refugees; the politics of women's health; rape and other violence against women; and the use of medicines in women's health.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Where Women Have No Doctor combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to care. Developed with community-based groups and medical experts from more than 30 countries, this book can help anyone understand, treat and prevent many of the health problems that affect women.

About the Author:

August Burns (PA, MPH) is a midwife and public health specialist who has worked for the empowerment of women for more than 35 five years. She has served as a technical adviser for the World Health Organization and as Executive Director for Grounds for Health, a cervical cancer prevention and training organization with programs in Latin America and Africa. She has been a tireless advocate for women's access to healthcare and equality in all aspects of life.

Ronnie Lovich is Director of the HIV/AIDS program at Save the Children. She has worked extensively in training of trainers to address women s health and gender issues, operations research to test approaches to extend access to services to community settings, and on the development materials for low literate audiences. Ronnie has consulted with a range of international organizations.

Jane Maxwell holds a masters degree in public health, and has additional training in both medical anthropology and journalism. Jane has worked in community-based health care settings in Mexico, Nepal, several countries in Africa, and with under-served urban communities in the United States.

Kathy Shapiro has been working in sexual and reproductive health for almost 40 years as a clinician, public health professional, researcher and writer. In 20 years of living and working in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia her focus has been on making crucial health information available and comprehensible to all women, improving access to SRH services including safe abortion, STI/HIV prevention and treatment, and fighting for high ethical standards of care in clinical trials in poor countries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperian Health Guides
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0942364252
• ISBN 13: 9780942364255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 583
• Editor: Katharine Shapiro, Sandy Nieman, Elena Metcalf