Village Medical Manual is a user-friendly, two-volume healthcare guide for lay workers in developing countries with special features that trained medical professionals would also find useful. Its intended use is for those who are required, by local on and circumstances, to render medical care. The clear vocabulary, along with over a thousand illustrations and diagrams, help Western-educated expatriates living in isolated locations to medically treat people and intelligently refer those that can be referred accordingly. It contains clearly defined procedural techniques and diagnostic protocols for when sophisticated instrumental on and lab tests are not available. It also offers solutions and advice for overcoming barriers to best practices in global health.
Volume 1 elucidates medical principles, symptoms, and procedures for routine medical care, as well as emergency situations.
Volume 2 includes vast symptom, disease (common and tropical), drug, and regionally-relevant indices to assist the reader in step-by-step diagnoses and treatment. This is a crucial reference for all who lack formal global health training but must know how to meet health care challenges in developing areas lacking medical infrastructure.

Village Medical Manual 7th Edition

Medical Books

Mary Vanderkooi

Medicine

William Carey Library Publishers

Village Medical Manual : A Layman's Guide to Health Care in Developing Countries, Principles and Procedures, Vol. 1

William Carey Library Pub

Village medical manual: A layman's guide to health care in developing countries

Administration & Medicine Economics

William Carey Library

Village Medical Manual is a two-volume guide to health care in developing countries where expert medical care can be hard to find. Its intended use is by those who are required, by location and circumstances, to render medical care for which they are not professionally trained. Reader-friendly and easy to navigate, this manual will allow the reader to find the best treatments and procedures in a variety of medical situations. Each volume includes illustrations and instructions that assist in diagnosing and treating patients. Volume I includes medical principles and procedures for basic care and emergency situations. Volume II includes symptom, disease, drug, and regional indices to assist the reader in step-by-step diagnoses and treatment of patients. This useful two-volume guide is a handy reference for all lay persons who need the skills to meet health care challenges in developing areas."With Village Medical Manual, Dr. Vanderkooi has targeted a frequently neglected category of medical caregivers: people who are well-educated in disciplines other than medicine living in rural areas of developing countries. These reluctant healers are frustrated by the unfamiliar jargon of books written for physicians and the lack of depth of health guides written for indigenous people. Through thorough research, extensive experience, common sense, logical arguments of contents, well-defined procedural plans and the use of everyday words, Dr. Vanderkooi has hit her mark very well."Neva Abbott, M.D., M.P.H.Former Director of International HealthWycliffe Bible Translators

Village Medical Manual: A Layman's Guide to Health Care in Developing Countries, 2 Volumes

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