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		Where Women Have No Doctor - A Health Guide for Women (Hesperian Foundation, 1997, 600 p.)
			(introduction...)
			Women’s health is in your hands
			Thanks
			About this Book
			How to Use this Book
			Chapter 1: Women’s Health Is a Community Issue
			Chapter 2: Solving Health Problems
			Chapter 3: The Medical System
			Chapter 4: Understanding Our Bodies
			Chapter 5: Health Concerns of Girls
			Chapter 6: Pregnancy and Childbirth
			Chapter 7: Breastfeeding
			Chapter 8: Growing Older
			Chapter 9: Women with Disabilities
			Chapter 10: Staying Healthy
			Chapter 11: Eating for Good Health
			Chapter 12: Sexual Health
			Chapter 13: Family Planning
			Chapter 14: Infertility (When You Are Not Able to Have a Baby)
			Chapter 15: Abortion and Complications from Abortion
			Chapter 16: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Other Infections of the Genitals
			Chapter 17: AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
			Chapter 18: Violence Against Women
			Chapter 19: Rape and Sexual Assault
			Chapter 20: Sex Workers
			Chapter 21: Pain in the Lower Abdomen
			Chapter 22: Abnormal Bleeding from the Vagina
			Chapter 23: Problems of the Urine System
			Chapter 24: Cancer and Growths
			Chapter 25: Tuberculosis
			Chapter 26: Work
			Chapter 27: Mental Health
			Chapter 28: Alcohol and Other Drugs
			Chapter 29: Refugees and Displaced Women
			Chapter 30: Female Circumcision
			Chapter 31: Use of Medicines in Women’s Health
			Table of Medicines: Green Pages
			Health Care Skills
			Vocabulary: List of difficult words
			Where to get more information
			Back cover

About this Book

This book was written to help women care for their own health, and to help community health workers or others meet women’s health needs. We have tried to include information that will be useful for those with no formal training in health care skills, and for those who do have some training.

Although this book covers a wide range of women’s health problems, it does not cover many problems that commonly affect both women and men, such as malaria, parasites, intestinal problems, and other diseases. For information on these kinds of problems, see Where There Is No Doctor or another general medical book.

Sometimes the information in this book will not be enough to enable you to solve a health problem. When this happens, get more help. Depending on the problem, we may suggest that you:

· see a health worker. This means that a trained health worker should be able to help you solve the problem.
· get medical help. This means you need to go to a clinic that has trained medical people or a doctor or a laboratory where basic tests are done.
· go to a hospital. This means you need to see a doctor at a hospital that is equipped for emergencies, for surgery, or for special tests.

If you need to get help immediately, this picture will also appear.

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