a guide for communities and community health workers /
Guy Howard ; with Claus Bogh [and others].
Geneva :
World Health Organization,
2002.
1 online resource (ix, 108 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-108).
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Achieving good health; Chapter 3. Water; Chapter 4. Excreta disposal; Chapter 5. Drainage; Chapter 6. Solid waste management and chemical safety; Chapter 7. Housing quality; Chapter 8. Personal, domestic and community hygiene; Chapter 9. Promoting hygiene; Chapter 10. Providing health care; Chapter 11. Establishing committees for implementing Healthy Villages programmes; Annex 1. Organizations supporting Healthy Villages initiatives; Annex 2. Books and manuals providing further advice.
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Health is determined by many factors, including income, environmental conditions - such as access to adequate sanitation and safe water supplies - individual behaviour, and health services. More than half of the world's population lives in villages and rural areas and most of those without access to safe water sources or basic sanitation are rural dwellers. Enabling rural populations to protect and improve their health is a major challenge worldwide. In response to this, an informal ''healthy villages'' movement has evolved. A healthy villages project promotes local actions by community member.