How to Use this Book
Finding information in the book
To find a topic you want to know about, you can
use the list of Contents.
The Contents, at the front of the book, lists the
chapters in the order in which they appear. There is also a list of contents at
the beginning of every chapter.
To find information about the medicines used in this book,
look in the Green Pages toward the back of the book.
If you do not understand the meanings of some of the words
used in this book, you may find them in the List of Difficult
Words. The first time these words appear in a chapter, they are printed
in slanted letters, like this. You can also look up the word in the index to
see if it is explained in another part of the book.
Many chapters end with a section called ‘Working for
Change’. These sections give suggestions for working to improve
women’s health in your community.
Finding information on a page
To find information on a page, first look over the whole page.
You will see that the page is divided into 2 parts: a large, main column and a
small column on the outside of the page. The main column gives most of the
information about a topic. The small column has additional information that can
help you better understand the topic.
Whenever you see a picture of a book in the small column, this
means more information about a topic can be found in another part of the book.
The words under the book say what the topic is. The page number on the book says
where that topic can be found. If there are several topics, the book is shown
once and the topics and their page numbers are listed below.
Figure
What the different things on a page mean:
Most pages have several headings. The headings in the
small column give the general topic that is being discussed on that page. The
headings in the main column give more specific topics.
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