The community health worker

This book is a completely revised and enlarged version of The primary health worker, which, since its publication in 1980, has become a standard teaching text and reference manual for community health workers and their trainers and supervisors. The text of this new edition has been updated in line with practical knowledge gained during the extensive field use of the previous work. The book also incorporates new information acquired in large WHO-sponsored programmes for immunization and for the control of diarrhoeal diseases. While covering a wider range of subjects, the book maintains the simple, problem-oriented approach to health care so much appreciated by users of The Primary health worker.