Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook for Africa

Hesperian’s classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is arguably the most widely-used health care manual in the world.

The Hesperian Foundation has been selling (this) Third World medical manual at a brisk pace for more than 25 years…(This) classic public-health text has meant survival for thousands in the Third World since the early 1970s.

According to officials from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Peace Corps…it stands as arguably the most widely use public-health manual in the world, according to WHO…WHO officials noted that since 1978, it, too, has adopted the kind of community-based approach to health care exemplified by ( Where There Is No Doctor).

Useful for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs, with millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on nutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems.