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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

Back cover

Weight (how heavy something is)
16 ounces (oz) = 1 pound (lb)
1 pound = 454 grams (g)
1 000 grams = 1 kilogram (kilo, kg)
1 kilo = 2 1/5 pounds
1 ounce = 28 grams
1 gram = 000 milligrams (mg)
1 grain (gr) = 65 mg

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Here is an example of how a girl's and woman's body can change over the years:

19.8 lbs = 9 kilos

44 lbs = 20 kilos

77 lbs = 35 kilos

132 lbs = 60 kilos
Volume (how much space or bulk something has; for measuring liquids)
1 000 milliliters (ml) = liter
1 milliliter = 1 cubic centimeter (cc)
3 teaspoons (tsp) = 1 Tablespoon (Tbs)
1 teaspoon = 5 milliliters
1 Tablespoon = 15 milliliters
30 milliliters = about 1 ounce (of water)
8 ounces = 1 cup
32 ounces = 1 quart (qt)
1 quart = 0.95 liters (l)
1 liter = 1.06 quarts

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WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR

A health guide for women

All over the world women rise to their daily work, care for their families and participate in community life. Too often, women must face these challenges while struggling against illness - lacking even basic information about their health.

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

Clearly written with over 1000 drawings, Where Women Have No Doctor is an essential resource for any woman who wants to improve her health. It is also invaluable for health workers who want more information about the problems that affect only women, or that affect women differently from men. It helps women identify the obstacles to good health in their communities and shares ideas on how to overcome them.

Topics 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
· the use of medicines in women's health