Online health resources
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT) - The International Journal of Public Health |
| Description/subject: | | Very rich seam of medical articles. This page presents the current issue, with all articles downloadable (pdf). For previous issues (back to 1947) click on "Past Issues" in the left hand column and browse the Volumes |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 September 2005 |
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| Title: | | DrugWatch |
| Description/subject: | | "DrugWatch.com is a comprehensive Web site database featuring extensive information about thousands of different medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide. DrugWatch.com includes up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications and includes details about associated side effects to aid in the protection of patients and consumers.
The resources available on DrugWatch.com are provided to offer visitors free and accurate information to aid in the understanding of various medications and conditions. The content on the site may help consumers formulate questions for medical professionals and alert the public about important information regarding potentially dangerous side effects associated with certain medications. By providing FDA alerts, drug interactions, and potential side effects on the site, patients have access to valuable knowledge that could enhance their ability to voice concerns with their doctor and improve their quality of care..."...CAVEAT: a limited check reveals that not all brand names of drugs available in Asia are listed. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | DrugWatch |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 18 January 2011 |
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| Title: | | GANFYD - a medical Wiki |
| Description/subject: | | The medical Wikipedia "Welcome to ganfyd.org - The free medical knowledge base that anyone can read and any registered medical practitioner may edit. Ganfyd is a collaborative medical reference by medical professionals and invited non-medical experts. The site is based around the wiki format, enabling true sharing of knowledge. Please join and help us to create a great source of information and experience! " |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | GANFYD |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 March 2008 |
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| Title: | | Health Science Journals in Myanmar |
| Description/subject: | | A digital portal of health science journals in Myanmar. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Health Science Journals in Myanmar |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Healthwrights Publications and Products |
| Description/subject: | | Several online books on village health care including "Questioning the Solution -
The Politics of Primary Health Care
and Child Survival"; "Nothing About Us Without Us -
Developing Innovative Technologies
For, By and With Disabled Persons".... |
| Language: | | English, Spanish |
| Source/publisher: | | Healthwrights |
| Format/size: | | htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 February 2005 |
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| Title: | | Hesperian Health Guides |
| Description/subject: | | "Hesperian Health Guides are easy to use, medically accurate, and richly illustrated. We publish 20 titles, spanning women’s health, children, disabilities, dentistry, health education, HIV, and environmental health, and distribute many others. Buy, download, or read from this page, or view resources by language to explore materials in Spanish and over 80 other languages..." |
| Language: | | English and other languages |
| Source/publisher: | | Hesperian Health Guides |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 December 2011 |
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| Title: | | Library and Information Networks for Knowledge Database (WHOLIS) |
| Description/subject: | | Type "Myanmar" (or whatever) into the Search box. Explore the full-text link at the right of some texts. Not much recent material. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | World Health Organisation |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Mahidol University Library Search |
| Description/subject: | | Some public, some not. |
| Language: | | English, Thai |
| Source/publisher: | | Mahidol University Library |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 February 2005 |
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| Title: | | Network Myanmar's Health page |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Network Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 November 2011 |
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| Title: | | Pub Med |
| Description/subject: | | Several hundred abstracts of health-related articles. Some full texts, but most have to be paid for. Search for "burma OR myanmar OR birma" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | National Library of Medicine (USA) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | WHO Research tools |
| Description/subject: | | Library database (WHOLIS):
"WHOLIS is the World Health Organization library database available on the web. WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present. An on-site card catalogue provides access to the pre-1986 technical documents"...
A guide to statistical information at WHO (WHOSIS):
A guide to epidemiological and statistical information available from WHO. Most WHO technical programmes develop health-related epidemiological and statistical information which they make available on the WHO website. The WHOSIS will help you to find it:
- WHOSIS;
- Burden of disease statistics;
- WHO mortality database;
- Statistical annexes of the World Health Report;
- Statistics by disease or condition;
- Health personnel;
- External sources for health-related statistical information;
WHO family of international classifications:
- The international statistical classification of diseases;
- International classification of functioning, disability and health;
- Disability assessment schedule II (WHODAS II)...
Geographical information tools:
- Communicable disease surveillance and response: public health mapping;
- Evidence and information for health policy: GIS;
- Global health atlas;
- PAHO/AMRO SIG-Epi...
Media centre:
- Multimedia Page: audio, video, photos...
WHO collaborating centres:
- WHO collaborating centres database. |
| Language: | | English (available also in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) |
| Source/publisher: | | World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 September 2005 |
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| Title: | | Wikipedia (health) |
| Description/subject: | | Full of health pages. From the alternate URL scroll down to "Burmese" (currently No. 107), and click on the Burmese script. Clicking on the Roman "Burmese" will take you to the Burmese language page. In the Burmese wiki, use Myanmar-3 font. |
| Language: | | English (other languages available) |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias (scroll down and click on the Burmese script to access the Burmese language wiki) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 30 December 2011 |
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| Title: | | Wikipedia AIDS page |
| Description/subject: | | * 1 Infection by HIV
* 2 Diagnosis
o 2.1 WHO Disease Staging System for HIV Infection and Disease
o 2.2 CDC Classification System for HIV Infection
o 2.3 HIV test
* 3 Symptoms and Complications
o 3.1 The major pulmonary illnesses
o 3.2 The major gastro-intestinal illnesses
o 3.3 The major neurological illnesses
o 3.4 The major HIV-associated malignancies
o 3.5 Other opportunistic infections
* 4 Transmission and prevention
o 4.1 Sexual contact
o 4.2 Exposure to infected body fluids
o 4.3 Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT)
* 5 Treatment
* 6 Epidemiology
* 7 Economic impact
* 8 Stigma
* 9 Origin of HIV
* 10 Alternative theories
* 11 Notes and references
* 12 External links |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 20 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | Wikipedia Cholera page |
| Description/subject: | | * 1 Pathology
o 1.1 Susceptibility
o 1.2 Transmission
o 1.3 Symptoms
* 2 History
o 2.1 Origin and Spread
o 2.2 Research
o 2.3 Other historical information
* 3 Treatment
o 3.1 Prevention
* 4 References
* 5 External links |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 20 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | Wikipedia Dengue Fever page |
| Description/subject: | | * 1 Signs and symptoms
* 2 Diagnosis
* 3 Treatment
* 4 Epidemiology
* 5 Prevention
* 6 Potential antiviral approaches
* 7 Recent outbreaks
* 8 References
* 9 External links
* 10 See also |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 20 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | Wikipedia Diarrhea page |
| Description/subject: | | * 1 Causes
* 2 Mechanism
* 3 Acute diarrhea
* 4 Chronic diarrhea
o 4.1 Infective diarrhea
o 4.2 Malabsorption
o 4.3 Inflammatory bowel disease
o 4.4 Irritable Bowel Syndrome
o 4.5 Other important causes
* 5 Treatment of diarrhea
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 20 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | Wikipedia HIV page |
| Description/subject: | | * 1 Introduction
* 2 Transmission
* 3 The clinical course of HIV-1 infection
o 3.1 Primary Infection
o 3.2 Clinical Latency
o 3.3 The declaration of AIDS
* 4 HIV structure and genome
* 5 HIV tropism
* 6 Replication cycle of HIV
o 6.1 Viral entry to the cell
o 6.2 Viral replication and transcription
o 6.3 Viral assembly and release
* 7 Genetic variability of HIV
* 8 Treatment
* 9 Epidemiology
* 10 Alternative theories
* 11 References
* 12 External links
* 13 AIDS News |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 20 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | Wikipedia section on reproductive health |
| Description/subject: | | ""Sexual health" redirects here. For the journal, see International Journal of Sexual Health.
Within the framework of the World Health Organization's (WHO) definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene, addresses the reproductive processes, functions and system at all stages of life.[1] Reproductive health, therefore, implies that people are able to have a responsible, satisfying and safer sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. Implicit in this are the right of men and women to be informed of and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of birth control of their choice; and the right of access to appropriate health care services of sexual and reproductive medicine that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth and provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy infant.
According to the WHO, "Reproductive and sexual ill-health accounts for 20% of the global burden of ill-health for women, and 14% for men."..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 February 2012 |
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| Title: | | World Health Reports |
| Description/subject: | | All reports back to 1995 online. Statistics, specific themes... substantial publications. |
| Language: | | English (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish also available) |
| Source/publisher: | | World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 May 2005 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | A Community Guide to Environmental Health (English) |
| Date of publication: | | 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary: “Covers topics: community mobilization; water source
protection, purification and borne diseases; sanitation; mosquito-borne
diseases; deforestation and reforestation; farming; pesticides and toxics;
solid waste and health care waste; harm from mining and oil extraction.
Includes group activities and appropriate technology instructions.”..."...It is clear what it means to improve the health of a child or of a family. But
how do you improve the health of the environment?
When we talk about environmental health, we mean the way our health is
affected by the world around us, and also how our activities affect the health
of the world around us. If our food, water, and air are contaminated, they
can make us sick. If we are not careful about how we use the air, water, and
land, we can make ourselves and the world around us sick. By protecting our
environment, we protect our health.
Improving environmental health often begins when people notice that a
health problem is affecting not just one person or group, but is a problem for
the whole community. When a problem is shared, people are more likely to
work together to bring about change..."...Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Author/creator: | | Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Hesperian Health Guides |
| Format/size: | | pdf (8MB - OBL version) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs12/Community_guide_to_environmental_health2008(en)-op200-red.pdf
http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 December 2011 |
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| Title: | | A STUDY ON COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE, BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES ON LEPROSY |
| Date of publication: | | 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | Introduction: 1.1 Leprosy
1.2 History of leprosy
1.3 Stigma of leprosy
1.4 Health education
1.5 The global situation
1.6 Global strategy for the elimination of leprosy
1.7 Global strategy beyond the elimination phase
1.8 Leprosy in Singapore, Chapter 2 Review of Literature: 2.1 Community knowledge of leprosy
2.2 Beliefs and misconceptions about leprosy
2.3 Community attitudes towards leprosy
2.4 Measuring leprosy stigma
2.5 Community health practices
2.6 Effectiveness of interventions targeting knowledge and attitudes
2.7 Concluding remarks
2.8 Rationale for the study
2.9 Objectives, Chapter 3 Methodology: 3.1 Study design
3.2 Place of study
3.3 Study population
3.4 Sampling
3.5 Data collection
3.6 Interviewers
3.7 Pilot study
3.8 Data processing and analysis
3.9 Study variables
3.10 Minimizing errors
3.11 Ethical issues, Chapter 4 Results: 4.1 Descriptive Analysis
4.1.1 Socio-demographic variables
4.1.2 General information
4.1.3 Knowledge of leprosy
4.1.4 Misconceptions regarding leprosy
4.1.5 Attitudes towards leprosy patients
4.2 Statistical Analysis for Associations
4.2.1 Knowledge of leprosy by socio-demographic variables
4.2.2 Beliefs regarding leprosy by socio-demographic variables
4.2.3 Overall knowledge scores
4.2.4 Beliefs regarding the cause of leprosy by socio-demographic
variables
4.2.5 Attitudes towards persons affected by leprosy
4.2.6 Overall attitudes scores
4.2.7 Median attitude scores
4.2.8 Relationship between overall knowledge, age, education and
accommodation of the respondents with attitude score
4.2.9 Stigmatising attitudes towards leprosy.4.3. Stratified Analysis
4.3.1 Stratified analysis by age group
4.4. Multiple Regression Analysis, Chapter 5 Discussion and Conclusions: 5.1 Main findings
5.2 Limitations of the present study
5.3 Interpretation of findings
5.4 Conclusions
5.5 Recommendations, Chapter 6 References
Appendices: Annexe I Questionnaire, Annexe II Operational definitions |
| Author/creator: | | PADMINI SUBRAMANIAM, MBBS. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Department of Community, Occupational & Family Medicine National University of Singapore |
| Format/size: | | pdf (725.81 K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | Anatomy of the Human Body (Gray's Anatomy) - 18th edition |
| Date of publication: | | 1918 |
| Description/subject: | | "The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn..." |
| Author/creator: | | Henry Gray |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Bartleby.com |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 February 2005 |
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| Title: | | Burmese Border Guidelines - update 2007 - Burmese |
| Date of publication: | | 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "The Burmese Border Clinical Guidelines are specifically designed to assist medics and health workers
practising along the Thailand/ Burma border. They have been adapted from the international treatment
guidelines and medical literature of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs) that focus on common diseases present on the Thailand/ Burma border. Every
effort has been made to incorporate the experiences of the local medics and health providers who
have been working in the refugee camps and communities on the border for the last twenty years. The
language is in simple English...These guidelines should not replace clinical decision-making, but should act as an aid in confirming a
diagnosis when you already have an idea of the patient’s disease. These guidelines have been adapted
from medical reference books and are simplified for use in the context of refugee camps and peripheral
clinics on the Thailand/ Burma border, and therefore may not be appropriate for use elsewhere.
The treatment options help you to choose a therapy according to the severity of the disease and the
age of the patient. Treatment schedules mentioned in this book are just one way to cure a patient;
keep in mind that other therapies (suggested by other guidelines or new health workers) could be
used to treat your patient.
Read the TEXT for information about the disease. This tells you which signs and symptoms you
should expect, which tests you can use to make a diagnosis, which complications or signs of severity
to look for, which treatment to use and how to prevent the disease.
Read the TABLES for the medicine that you have chosen in order to find the correct dose according
to the age or weight of the patient. Here you will find contra indications and warnings for use
of medicines..." |
| Language: | | Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Aide Medicale Internationale |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 December 2007 |
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| Title: | | Burmese Border Guidelines - update 2007 - English |
| Date of publication: | | 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "The Burmese Border Clinical Guidelines are specifically designed to assist medics and health workers
practising along the Thailand/ Burma border. They have been adapted from the international treatment
guidelines and medical literature of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs) that focus on common diseases present on the Thailand/ Burma border. Every
effort has been made to incorporate the experiences of the local medics and health providers who
have been working in the refugee camps and communities on the border for the last twenty years. The
language is in simple English...These guidelines should not replace clinical decision-making, but should act as an aid in confirming a
diagnosis when you already have an idea of the patient’s disease. These guidelines have been adapted
from medical reference books and are simplified for use in the context of refugee camps and peripheral
clinics on the Thailand/ Burma border, and therefore may not be appropriate for use elsewhere.
The treatment options help you to choose a therapy according to the severity of the disease and the
age of the patient. Treatment schedules mentioned in this book are just one way to cure a patient;
keep in mind that other therapies (suggested by other guidelines or new health workers) could be
used to treat your patient.
Read the TEXT for information about the disease. This tells you which signs and symptoms you
should expect, which tests you can use to make a diagnosis, which complications or signs of severity
to look for, which treatment to use and how to prevent the disease.
Read the TABLES for the medicine that you have chosen in order to find the correct dose according
to the age or weight of the patient. Here you will find contra indications and warnings for use
of medicines..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.8MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 December 2007 |
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| Title: | | Coverage and Skill Mix Balance of Human Resources for Health in Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | The township health system in Myanmar is regarded as means to achieve the end of an equitable, efficient and effective health system based on the principles of primary health care approach. A township hospital caters medical care at the second referral level. Under the leadership and management of a Township Medical Officer in each township, para-professionals deployed at Rural Health Centers (RHCs) and Sub-centers under each RHC’s jurisdiction play key roles for providing primary health care services for rural population. There had been an expansion of township hospital beds, RHCs and Sub-centers during the past 15 years. However, whether the current HRH skill mix is appropriate and cost-effective for primary health care services in Myanmar’s rural areas need a proper review. In this paper we attempted to explore current distribution and balance of skill mix of selected categories township level HRH for effective coverage of essential health care services in rural areas. [abstract] |
| Author/creator: | | Dr. Than Tun Sein, Dr. Maung Maung Win, Dr Nilar Tin |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health |
| Format/size: | | pdf (207.17 K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Disabled Village Children - A guide for community health workers, rehabilitation workers, and families |
| Date of publication: | | 1999 |
| Description/subject: | | "Disabled Village Children is a guide for community health workers, rehabilitation workers, and families. With more than 4,000 line drawings and 200 photos, this is an exciting book of information and ideas for all who are concerned about the well-being of disabled children. It is especially for those who live in rural areas where resources are limited. But it is also for therapists and professionals who assist community-based programs or who want to share knowledge and skills with families and concerned members of the commnunity.
The book gives a wealth of clear, simple, but detailed information about most common disabilities of children: many different physical disabilities, blindness, deafness, fits, behavior problems, and developmental delay. It gives suggestions for simplified rehabilitation, low-cost aids, and ways to help disabled children find a role and be accepted in the community.
Above all, the book helps us to realize that most of the answers for meeting these children's needs can be found within the community, the family, and in the children themselves. It discusses ways of starting small community rehabilitation centers and workshops run by disabled persons or the families of disabled children..."... PART 1. WORKING WITH THE CHILD AND FAMILY:
Information on Different Disabilities...PART 2. WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY:
Village Involvement in the Rehabilitation, Social Integration, and Rights of Disabled Children...PART 3. WORKING IN THE SHOP:
Rehabilitation Aids and Procedures
with the help of many friends Drawings by the author |
| Author/creator: | | David Werner |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Hesperian Foundation |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 February 2005 |
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| Title: | | Essential trauma management training: addressing service delivery needs in active conflict zones in eastern Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | Access to governmental and international nongovernmental sources of health care within eastern Myanmar's conflict regions is virtually nonexistent. Historically, under these circumstances effective care for the victims of trauma, particularly landmine injuries, has been severely deficient. Recognizing this, community-based organizations (CBOs) providing health care in these regions sought to scale up the capacity of indigenous health workers to provide trauma care. |
| Author/creator: | | Allison J Richard1, Catherine I Lee, Matthew G Richard, Eh Kalu Shwe Oo, Thomas Lee and Lawrence Stock |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Human Resources for Health |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Helping Health Workers Learn (updated 1995) |
| Date of publication: | | 1995 |
| Description/subject: | | Contents — INTRODUCTION — Warning — Why This Book is so Political...
PART ONE: Approaches and Plans--
* Chapter 1: Looking at Learning and Teaching
* Chapter 2: Selecting Health Workers, Instructors, and Advisors
* Chapter 3: Planning a Training Program
* Chapter 4: Getting Off to a Good Start (Be Prepared)
* Chapter 5: Planning a Class
* Chapter 6: Learning and Working with the Community
* Chapter 7: Helping People Look at Their Customs and Beliefs
* Chapter 8: Practice in Attending the Sick
* Chapter 9: Examinations and Evaluation as a Learning Proccess
* Chapter 10: Follow-up, Support, and Continued Learning...
PART TWO: Learning Through Seeing, Doing, and Thinking
* Chapter 11: Making and Using Teaching Aids
* Chapter 12: Learning to Make, Take, and Use Pictures
* Chapter 13: Story Telling
* Chapter 14: Role Playing
* Chapter 15: Appropriate and Inappropriate Technology
* Chapter 16: Homemade, Lo-cost Equipment and Written Materials
* Chapter 17: Solving Problems Step by Step (Scientific Method)
* Chapter 18: Learning to Use Medicines and Equipment Sensibly
* Chapter 19: Aids for Learning to Use Medicines and Equipment...
PART THREE: Learning To Use The Book, Where There Is No Doctor
* Chapter 20: Using the Contents, Index, Page References, and Vocabulary
* Chapter 21: Practice in Using Guides, Charts, and Record Sheets...
PART FOUR: Activities With Mothers and Children
* Chapter 22: Pregnant Women, Mothers, and Young Children
* Chapter 23: The Politics of Family Planning
* Chapter 24: Children as Health Workers...
PART FIVE: Health In Relation To Food, Land, And Social Problems
* Chapter 25: Food First
* Chapter 26: Looking at How Human Resources Affect Health
* Chapter 27: Ways to get People Thinking and Acting: Village Theater and Puppet Shows...
A Call For Courage and Caution — Addresses For Teaching Materials —
Index — About Project Piaxtla and The Authors. |
| Author/creator: | | David Werner |
| Language: | | English, Espanol |
| Source/publisher: | | Hesperian Health Guides |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 February 2005 |
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| Title: | | Patients' Manual -- Burmese |
| Date of publication: | | 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | Short illustrated brochure in Burmese explaining basic medical terms relating to hygiene, disease vectors etc. |
| Language: | | Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.9MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 21 February 2009 |
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| Title: | | Patients' Manual -- Karen |
| Date of publication: | | 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | Short illustrated brochure in Karen explaining basic medical terms relating to hygiene, disease vectors etc. |
| Language: | | Karen |
| Source/publisher: | | Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (3MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 21 February 2009 |
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| Title: | | Questions and Answers on HIV and AIDS -- Burmese |
| Date of publication: | | 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | This 63 page book collectively answers many of the questions young people want to ask about HIV/AIDS. [in Myanmar language] It explains AIDS origin in Africa and spread globally, its current prevalence in Myanmar, its modes of infection, and means for control. Yangon, 2005...
For further information please contact:
Jason Rush, Communication Officer, UNICEF in Myanmar
Phone: (95 1) 212 086; Fax: (95 1) 212 063 ; Email: jrush@unicef.org |
| Language: | | Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | UNICEF |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.64MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 23 December 2005 |
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| Title: | | The Ship Captain's Medical Guide |
| Date of publication: | | 1996 |
| Description/subject: | | First aid - Chapter 1
Adobe Acrobat PDF (1.2Mb);
Toxic hazards of chemicals including poisoning - Chapter 2
Adobe Acrobat PDF (24Kb);
General Nursing - Chapter 3
Adobe Acrobat PDF (289Kb);
Care of the injured - Chapter 4
Adobe Acrobat PDF (216Kb);
Causes and prevention of disease - Chapter 5
Adobe Acrobat PDF (44Kb);
Communicable diseases - Chapter 6
Adobe Acrobat PDF (90Kb);
Sexually transmitted diseases - Chapter 6.1
Adobe Acrobat PDF (43Kb);
Other diseases and medical problems - Chapter 7
Adobe Acrobat PDF (393Kb);
Diseases of fishermen - Chapter 8
Adobe Acrobat PDF (45Kb);
Female disorders and Pregnancy - Chapter 9
Adobe Acrobat PDF (22Kb);
Childbirth - Chapter 10
Adobe Acrobat PDF (112Kb);
Survivors - Chapter 11
Adobe Acrobat PDF (19Kb);
The dying and the dead - Chapter 12
Adobe Acrobat PDF (17Kb);
External assistance - Chapter 13
Adobe Acrobat PDF (59Kb);
Annexes/Index
Adobe Acrobat PDF (368Kb). |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Maritime an Coastguard Service (UK Stationary Office) |
| Format/size: | | pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 August 2005 |
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| Title: | | Where There Is No Dentist (English) |
| Date of publication: | | 2011 |
| Description/subject: | | "'Where There Is No Dentist' is a book about what people can do for
themselves and each other to care for their gums and teeth. It is written for:
• village and neighborhood health workers who want to learn more
about dental care as part of a complete community-based approach to
health;
• school teachers, mothers, fathers, and anyone concerned with
encouraging dental health in their children and their community; and
• those dentists and dental technicians who are looking for ways to
share their skills, to help people become more self-reliant at lower cost.
Just as with the rest of health care, there is a strong need to
‘deprofessionalize’ dentistry—to provide ordinary people and community
workers with more skills to prevent and cure problems in the mouth. After
all, early care is what makes the dentist’s work unnecessary—and this is the
care that each person gives to his or her own teeth, or what a mother does
to protect her children’s teeth...".....Read online or download (3.7MB)...Originally published 1983; last revised 2011. |
| Author/creator: | | Murray Dickson |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Hesperian Foundation |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf (3.7MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs12/Where_there_is_no_dentist-2011(en)-op175-red.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 December 2011 |
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| Title: | | Where There Is No Doctor: a village health care handbook - 2011 revised edition (English) |
| Date of publication: | | 2011 |
| Description/subject: | | "This handbook has been written primarily for those who live far from medical
centers, in places where there is no doctor. But even where there are doctors, people
can and should take the lead in their own health care. So this book is for everyone who
cares. It has been written in the belief that:
1. Health care is not only everyone’s right, but everyone’s responsibility...
2. Informed self-care should be the main goal of any health program
or activity...
3. Ordinary people provided with clear, simple information can prevent and
treat most common health problems in their own homes—earlier, cheaper,
and often better than can doctors...
4. Medical knowledge should not be the guarded secret of a select few, but
should be freely shared by everyone...
5. People with little formal education can be trusted as much as those with a
lot. And they are just as smart...
6. Basic health care should not be delivered, but encouraged.....
Clearly, a part of informed self-care is knowing one’s own limits. Therefore
guidelines are included not only for what to do, but for when to seek help. The book
points out those cases when it is important to see or get advice from a health worker
or doctor. But because doctors or health workers are not always nearby, the book also
suggests what to do in the meantime—even for very serious problems...".....The Hesperian.org site provides links to the 23 individual chaoters, for easy download. |
| Author/creator: | | David Werner; with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Hesperian Health Guides |
| Format/size: | | pdf (7.7MB, 5.2MB -low res - OBL versions); |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs12/Where_there_is_no_doctor-2011(en)-op150-red.pdf
http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 December 2011 |
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| Title: | | Where Women Have No Doctor - a health guide for women (Burmese) |
| Date of publication: | | 2011 |
| Description/subject: | | Summarized and Translated by Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE).... Foreword: "Health is a right; and like all other human rights it applies to everybody, particularly those person
living in deplorable conditions. Quality health services must be based on poor people's
particularly poor women's needs.
Historically, women have been at a disadvantaged on account of neglect and discrimination in
treatment by the state and societal institutions in most parts of the world. This leads to
marginalization of women as attributed by the lack of opportunity and indignities perpetrated by
discriminatory legal systems.
We are very pleased to offer this new adapted Burmese version of the book entitled Where
Women Have No Doctor which combines self-help medical information with an understanding
of the way of poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs that limit women's health and access to
care. The book aims to empower women to improve their health and to support community
health workers who continue to improve women's health.
Our special thanks go to the women and men behind the publication of this book whose
immeasurable contribution led to the completion work. Moreover, to the Hesperian Foundation,
without the generous support of, this book will not come into fruition.
Moreover, we dedicate this book to the Burmese women who continue to be marginalized.
May this book offer relief and support to you.".....The Hesperian site provides the full text in high resolution and links to individual chapters...
"An essential resource for any woman or health worker who wants to improve her health and the health of her community, and for anyone to learn about problems that affect women differently from men. Topics include reproductive health, concerns of girls and older women, violence, and mental health..." |
| Author/creator: | | A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katharine Shapiro...translated by Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) |
| Language: | | Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | WEAVE/Hesperian Health Guides |
| Format/size: | | pdf (3.7MB-OBL version) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/resources-in-burmese/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 December 2011 |
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| Title: | | Where Women Have No Doctor - A health guide for women (English) |
| Date of publication: | | 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | "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..."......The Hesperian site provides the full text in high resolution and links to individual chapters. The OBL Alternate URLs are to the full text in low and medium resolution... See also the Burmese version on the OBL and Hesperian sites. |
| Author/creator: | | A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katharine Shapiro |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Hesperian Health Guides |
| Format/size: | | pdf - 5.6MB (low resolution) ; 9.1MB (medium resolution) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs12/Where_women_have_no_doctor(en)-red.pdf
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs12/Where_Women_Have_No_Doctor(en)-op150-red.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 December 2011 |
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