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TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes. WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane)PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or HARMFUL EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE CHEMICALS USED IN MINING Toxic chemicals used in mining include: cyanide, sulfuric acid, and solvents for separating minerals from ore. nitric acid. ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (“ANFO”) used in blasting tunnels. heavy metals such as mercury, uranium, and lead. gasoline, diesel fuel, and exhaust fumes from vehicles and equipment. acetylene for welding andsoldering.
SAFE AND UNSAFE ABORTION Avoid unsafe abortion. Try to prevent unwanted pregnancy before it happens. Do not put sharp objects like sticks, wire, or plastic tubing into the vagina and womb. These can tear the womb and cause dangerous bleeding and infection. Do not put herbs or plants in the vagina orwomb.
HOME - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESBOOKS AND RESOURCESGET INVOLVEDABOUT USBOOKSTOREDONATERESOURCES BY LANGUAGE Action for Health. Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit health information and health education source that supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. We develop easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. All are available through our bookstore and the new Hesperian DigitalCommons.
TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes. WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane)PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or HARMFUL EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE CHEMICALS USED IN MINING Toxic chemicals used in mining include: cyanide, sulfuric acid, and solvents for separating minerals from ore. nitric acid. ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (“ANFO”) used in blasting tunnels. heavy metals such as mercury, uranium, and lead. gasoline, diesel fuel, and exhaust fumes from vehicles and equipment. acetylene for welding andsoldering.
SAFE AND UNSAFE ABORTION Avoid unsafe abortion. Try to prevent unwanted pregnancy before it happens. Do not put sharp objects like sticks, wire, or plastic tubing into the vagina and womb. These can tear the womb and cause dangerous bleeding and infection. Do not put herbs or plants in the vagina orwomb.
A COMMUNITY GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Chapter 1: Promoting Community Environmental Health. Health promoters stop cholera. Chapter 2: Understanding and Mobilizing for Community Health. Mobilizing for Environmental Health. Activities for Learning and Mobilizing. A Guide to Which Activity to Use When. Chapter 3: Protecting Natural Resources for All. SOLVE HEALTH AND SAFETY PROBLEMS AT WORK Enclose the danger, remove it, or protect the worker from it. Install enclosures, barriers, separate work areas, machine guards, ventilation, and whatever else is needed. Change the organization of work. Reduce the amount of time individual workers SEX AND GENDER ROLES Sex and Gender Roles. Each person is born with either a girl’s body or a boy’s body. These physical differences determine a person’s sex. A person’s gender role refers to the way a community defines what it is to be a woman or a man. Each community expects women and men to look, think, feel, and act in certain ways, simply because they RESOURCES IN BURMESE translated by Friends of Burma, Inc. and Myanmar Christian Health Workers/CDC. This basic dental manual uses straightforward language and step-by-step instructions to discuss preventive care of teeth and gums, diagnosing and treating common dental problems, and includes a special chapter on oral health and HIV. CONTACT. FORESTS AND LIVELIHOOD Forests and Livelihood. Forests are an important source of livelihood. Some governments and international organizations say the greatest damage to forests is caused by poor people who cut down trees to farm or earn their livelihood in other ways. But when people do not have enough food, income, or other basic needs, the need to survive becomes DIFFERENT WAYS OF HAVING SEX Touching a person's face, hands, back, and neck are also good ways of being sexual. Having oral sex (when one partner—or both—puts his or her mouth on the other's genitals and licks or sucks) may be pleasurable. Touching and rubbing each other's genitals (mutual masturbation) may be another way to give and get sexual enjoyment. HOW FACTORY WORK CAN HARM YOUR HEALTH poor ventilation. spoiled food, unsafe water, and lack of access to clean bathrooms. Some health problems are caused by "social dangers," the unfair and unjust social conditions inside and outside the factory. Some social dangers are: low wages. working shifts A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT A living wage is a human right. The minimum wage should be enough money to cover basic needs — a place to live, water, and food for a worker and her family. But people need to do more than just survive. We need a decent home, enough healthy and nutritious food for our families, and to earn enough to pay our monthly bills as well as savefor
ECOLOGICAL TOILETS
Ecological Toilets. Ecological toilets turn feces and urine into soil conditioner and fertilizer. This improves people’s health and the environment by preventing the spread of germs and turning harmful waste into a valuable resource. Ecological toilets also protect and conserve water because no water is needed for their use, except forwashing.
PREVENTION AND EARLY MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTURES Contractures can often be prevented by (1) positioning, and (2) range-of-motion exercises. Positioning. If a child is likely to develop contractures or has begun to develop them, try to position her to stretch the affected joints. HOME - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESBOOKS AND RESOURCESGET INVOLVEDABOUT USBOOKSTOREDONATERESOURCES BY LANGUAGE Action for Health. Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit health information and health education source that supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. We develop easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. All are available through our bookstore and the new Hesperian DigitalCommons.
TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes. WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane)PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or HARMFUL EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE CHEMICALS USED IN MINING Toxic chemicals used in mining include: cyanide, sulfuric acid, and solvents for separating minerals from ore. nitric acid. ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (“ANFO”) used in blasting tunnels. heavy metals such as mercury, uranium, and lead. gasoline, diesel fuel, and exhaust fumes from vehicles and equipment. acetylene for welding andsoldering.
SAFE AND UNSAFE ABORTION Avoid unsafe abortion. Try to prevent unwanted pregnancy before it happens. Do not put sharp objects like sticks, wire, or plastic tubing into the vagina and womb. These can tear the womb and cause dangerous bleeding and infection. Do not put herbs or plants in the vagina orwomb.
HOME - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESBOOKS AND RESOURCESGET INVOLVEDABOUT USBOOKSTOREDONATERESOURCES BY LANGUAGE Action for Health. Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit health information and health education source that supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. We develop easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. All are available through our bookstore and the new Hesperian DigitalCommons.
TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes. WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane)PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or HARMFUL EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE CHEMICALS USED IN MINING Toxic chemicals used in mining include: cyanide, sulfuric acid, and solvents for separating minerals from ore. nitric acid. ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (“ANFO”) used in blasting tunnels. heavy metals such as mercury, uranium, and lead. gasoline, diesel fuel, and exhaust fumes from vehicles and equipment. acetylene for welding andsoldering.
SAFE AND UNSAFE ABORTION Avoid unsafe abortion. Try to prevent unwanted pregnancy before it happens. Do not put sharp objects like sticks, wire, or plastic tubing into the vagina and womb. These can tear the womb and cause dangerous bleeding and infection. Do not put herbs or plants in the vagina orwomb.
A COMMUNITY GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Chapter 1: Promoting Community Environmental Health. Health promoters stop cholera. Chapter 2: Understanding and Mobilizing for Community Health. Mobilizing for Environmental Health. Activities for Learning and Mobilizing. A Guide to Which Activity to Use When. Chapter 3: Protecting Natural Resources for All. SOLVE HEALTH AND SAFETY PROBLEMS AT WORK Enclose the danger, remove it, or protect the worker from it. Install enclosures, barriers, separate work areas, machine guards, ventilation, and whatever else is needed. Change the organization of work. Reduce the amount of time individual workers SEX AND GENDER ROLES Sex and Gender Roles. Each person is born with either a girl’s body or a boy’s body. These physical differences determine a person’s sex. A person’s gender role refers to the way a community defines what it is to be a woman or a man. Each community expects women and men to look, think, feel, and act in certain ways, simply because they RESOURCES IN BURMESE translated by Friends of Burma, Inc. and Myanmar Christian Health Workers/CDC. This basic dental manual uses straightforward language and step-by-step instructions to discuss preventive care of teeth and gums, diagnosing and treating common dental problems, and includes a special chapter on oral health and HIV. CONTACT. FORESTS AND LIVELIHOOD Forests and Livelihood. Forests are an important source of livelihood. Some governments and international organizations say the greatest damage to forests is caused by poor people who cut down trees to farm or earn their livelihood in other ways. But when people do not have enough food, income, or other basic needs, the need to survive becomes DIFFERENT WAYS OF HAVING SEX Touching a person's face, hands, back, and neck are also good ways of being sexual. Having oral sex (when one partner—or both—puts his or her mouth on the other's genitals and licks or sucks) may be pleasurable. Touching and rubbing each other's genitals (mutual masturbation) may be another way to give and get sexual enjoyment. HOW FACTORY WORK CAN HARM YOUR HEALTH poor ventilation. spoiled food, unsafe water, and lack of access to clean bathrooms. Some health problems are caused by "social dangers," the unfair and unjust social conditions inside and outside the factory. Some social dangers are: low wages. working shifts A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT A living wage is a human right. The minimum wage should be enough money to cover basic needs — a place to live, water, and food for a worker and her family. But people need to do more than just survive. We need a decent home, enough healthy and nutritious food for our families, and to earn enough to pay our monthly bills as well as savefor
ECOLOGICAL TOILETS
Ecological Toilets. Ecological toilets turn feces and urine into soil conditioner and fertilizer. This improves people’s health and the environment by preventing the spread of germs and turning harmful waste into a valuable resource. Ecological toilets also protect and conserve water because no water is needed for their use, except forwashing.
PREVENTION AND EARLY MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTURES Contractures can often be prevented by (1) positioning, and (2) range-of-motion exercises. Positioning. If a child is likely to develop contractures or has begun to develop them, try to position her to stretch the affected joints. HOME - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESBOOKS AND RESOURCESGET INVOLVEDABOUT USBOOKSTOREDONATERESOURCES BY LANGUAGE Action for Health. Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit health information and health education source that supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. We develop easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. All are available through our bookstore and the new Hesperian DigitalCommons.
WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes.PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. CHEMICALS USED IN MINING Toxic chemicals used in mining include: cyanide, sulfuric acid, and solvents for separating minerals from ore. nitric acid. ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (“ANFO”) used in blasting tunnels. heavy metals such as mercury, uranium, and lead. gasoline, diesel fuel, and exhaust fumes from vehicles and equipment. acetylene for welding andsoldering.
SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane) TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If HOW TO TAKE TEMPERATURE, PULSE, RESPIRATION, AND BLOOD How to take the temperature. Clean the thermometer well with soap and cold water, or alcohol. For a digital thermometer, push the button to turn it on. For a mercury thermometer, hold it at the end without the silver (or red) and shake it hard, with a snap of the wrist, until it reads less than 36 °C / LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES HOME - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESBOOKS AND RESOURCESGET INVOLVEDABOUT USBOOKSTOREDONATERESOURCES BY LANGUAGE Action for Health. Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit health information and health education source that supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. We develop easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. All are available through our bookstore and the new Hesperian DigitalCommons.
WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes.PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. CHEMICALS USED IN MINING Toxic chemicals used in mining include: cyanide, sulfuric acid, and solvents for separating minerals from ore. nitric acid. ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (“ANFO”) used in blasting tunnels. heavy metals such as mercury, uranium, and lead. gasoline, diesel fuel, and exhaust fumes from vehicles and equipment. acetylene for welding andsoldering.
SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane) TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If HOW TO TAKE TEMPERATURE, PULSE, RESPIRATION, AND BLOOD How to take the temperature. Clean the thermometer well with soap and cold water, or alcohol. For a digital thermometer, push the button to turn it on. For a mercury thermometer, hold it at the end without the silver (or red) and shake it hard, with a snap of the wrist, until it reads less than 36 °C / LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES A COMMUNITY GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Chapter 1: Promoting Community Environmental Health. Health promoters stop cholera. Chapter 2: Understanding and Mobilizing for Community Health. Mobilizing for Environmental Health. Activities for Learning and Mobilizing. A Guide to Which Activity to Use When. Chapter 3: Protecting Natural Resources for All. HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES Helping Children Live with HIV is a new, innovative community health guide, designed to empower families and communities affected by HIV in their efforts to support children’s well-being and healthy development. Richly illustrated, filled with unique stories and practical advice, this resource addresses both the physical and emotional health needs of children living with HIV. SOLVE HEALTH AND SAFETY PROBLEMS AT WORK Enclose the danger, remove it, or protect the worker from it. Install enclosures, barriers, separate work areas, machine guards, ventilation, and whatever else is needed. Change the organization of work. Reduce the amount of time individual workers SEX AND GENDER ROLES Sex and Gender Roles. Each person is born with either a girl’s body or a boy’s body. These physical differences determine a person’s sex. A person’s gender role refers to the way a community defines what it is to be a woman or a man. Each community expects women and men to look, think, feel, and act in certain ways, simply because they ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane) DIFFERENT WAYS OF HAVING SEX Touching a person's face, hands, back, and neck are also good ways of being sexual. Having oral sex (when one partner—or both—puts his or her mouth on the other's genitals and licks or sucks) may be pleasurable. Touching and rubbing each other's genitals (mutual masturbation) may be another way to give and get sexual enjoyment.ECOLOGICAL TOILETS
Ecological Toilets. Ecological toilets turn feces and urine into soil conditioner and fertilizer. This improves people’s health and the environment by preventing the spread of germs and turning harmful waste into a valuable resource. Ecological toilets also protect and conserve water because no water is needed for their use, except forwashing.
FORESTS AND LIVELIHOOD Forests and Livelihood. Forests are an important source of livelihood. Some governments and international organizations say the greatest damage to forests is caused by poor people who cut down trees to farm or earn their livelihood in other ways. But when people do not have enough food, income, or other basic needs, the need to survive becomes HOW FACTORY WORK CAN HARM YOUR HEALTH poor ventilation. spoiled food, unsafe water, and lack of access to clean bathrooms. Some health problems are caused by "social dangers," the unfair and unjust social conditions inside and outside the factory. Some social dangers are: low wages. working shifts WHY WOMEN BECOME SEX WORKERS Many people think women become sex workers because they are immoral or too lazy to find other work. But most women do so because they need money and have no other way to earn it. These women need money for food and shelter, to support their children and families, to pay debts, or to buy drugs. This desperate need often arises in situationsa
PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
A BOOK FOR MIDWIVES
Chapter 1: Word to midwives. Learning is lifelong. Share what you know. Respectful and compassionate care. Work to improve women’s health. Work for the joy of it. Chapter 2: Treating health problems. Finding the causes of health problems. Finding the best treatment. SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER AN ABORTION What to Expect after an Abortion. Normal monthly bleeding should start about 4 to 6 weeks after an abortion. But you can become pregnant again after 11 days. After an abortion, signs of pregnancy, like nausea and sore breasts, should disappear within a day. If it was a medical abortion, breasts may stay sore for a week or two. SELF DEFENSE FOR WOMEN Reach back with your hand, grab his testicles (balls), and squeeze them hard. With your heel, kick him hard in his lower leg or knee. Dig your fingers hard into his eyes. Make 2 fists and hit him on each side of his head, or on his ears. Make your hands into A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT A living wage is a human right. The minimum wage should be enough money to cover basic needs — a place to live, water, and food for a worker and her family. But people need to do more than just survive. We need a decent home, enough healthy and nutritious food for our families, and to earn enough to pay our monthly bills as well as savefor
PREVENTION AND EARLY MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTURES put a pillow between legs to hold knees apart. Lying and sleeping straight helps prevent contractures. Also use pillows for side- lying to keep a good position. Lying and sleeping with the legs in a twisted or bent position causes contractures. Letting feet HOW FACTORY WORK CAN HARM YOUR HEALTH poor ventilation. spoiled food, unsafe water, and lack of access to clean bathrooms. Some health problems are caused by "social dangers," the unfair and unjust social conditions inside and outside the factory. Some social dangers are: low wages. working shifts POLLUTION FROM SHOE FACTORIES Pollution from shoe factories. Most factories haul their waste materials off to be disposed of in dumps. When their waste contains chemicals, this can result in the contamination of the ground and groundwater. Where it is prohibited to dump chemicals in ordinary landfills, unethical companies try to save money by pouring wastessuch as dyes
PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
A BOOK FOR MIDWIVES
Chapter 1: Word to midwives. Learning is lifelong. Share what you know. Respectful and compassionate care. Work to improve women’s health. Work for the joy of it. Chapter 2: Treating health problems. Finding the causes of health problems. Finding the best treatment. SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER AN ABORTION What to Expect after an Abortion. Normal monthly bleeding should start about 4 to 6 weeks after an abortion. But you can become pregnant again after 11 days. After an abortion, signs of pregnancy, like nausea and sore breasts, should disappear within a day. If it was a medical abortion, breasts may stay sore for a week or two. SELF DEFENSE FOR WOMEN Reach back with your hand, grab his testicles (balls), and squeeze them hard. With your heel, kick him hard in his lower leg or knee. Dig your fingers hard into his eyes. Make 2 fists and hit him on each side of his head, or on his ears. Make your hands into A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT A living wage is a human right. The minimum wage should be enough money to cover basic needs — a place to live, water, and food for a worker and her family. But people need to do more than just survive. We need a decent home, enough healthy and nutritious food for our families, and to earn enough to pay our monthly bills as well as savefor
PREVENTION AND EARLY MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTURES put a pillow between legs to hold knees apart. Lying and sleeping straight helps prevent contractures. Also use pillows for side- lying to keep a good position. Lying and sleeping with the legs in a twisted or bent position causes contractures. Letting feet HOW FACTORY WORK CAN HARM YOUR HEALTH poor ventilation. spoiled food, unsafe water, and lack of access to clean bathrooms. Some health problems are caused by "social dangers," the unfair and unjust social conditions inside and outside the factory. Some social dangers are: low wages. working shifts POLLUTION FROM SHOE FACTORIES Pollution from shoe factories. Most factories haul their waste materials off to be disposed of in dumps. When their waste contains chemicals, this can result in the contamination of the ground and groundwater. Where it is prohibited to dump chemicals in ordinary landfills, unethical companies try to save money by pouring wastessuch as dyes
HEALTH CARE IN THE FACTORY Health care in the factory. Many factory owners do not offer on-site medical services. When they do, services may be limited, and sometimes not very good. Factory-paid doctors and nurses, although not part of management, may be pressured to prioritize production over improving workers’ health. But conscientious health workers can be importantECOLOGICAL TOILETS
Ecological Toilets. Ecological toilets turn feces and urine into soil conditioner and fertilizer. This improves people’s health and the environment by preventing the spread of germs and turning harmful waste into a valuable resource. Ecological toilets also protect and conserve water because no water is needed for their use, except forwashing.
ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane) WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER AN ABORTION What to Expect after an Abortion. Normal monthly bleeding should start about 4 to 6 weeks after an abortion. But you can become pregnant again after 11 days. After an abortion, signs of pregnancy, like nausea and sore breasts, should disappear within a day. If it was a medical abortion, breasts may stay sore for a week or two.TEACHING MATERIALS
1 3 basic methods for making teaching materials. 1.1 Copying a pattern. 1.2 Making a slide into a poster. 1.3 Making models out of papier maché. 2 Models of a pelvis, womb, and vagina. 2.1 A paper pelvis. 2.2 A womb and vagina made from cloth. 2.2.1 The womb. 2.2.2Using the model.
SOLVENTS - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES Solvents. Solvents come in liquid form and are used as cleaners, added to glues to make them stronger or quicker to dry, and are part of many mixes of chemicals in shoe, garment, and electronics industries. Most solvents quickly burn and explode when exposed to HOW FACTORY WORK CAN HARM YOUR HEALTH poor ventilation. spoiled food, unsafe water, and lack of access to clean bathrooms. Some health problems are caused by "social dangers," the unfair and unjust social conditions inside and outside the factory. Some social dangers are: low wages. working shifts POLYMERS - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES Polymers come in both liquids and solids.Ethylene vinyl acetate comes as white powder that smells like wax, while its monomer, Vinyl acetate, is a clear liquid with a strong, sweet smell.Phenol formaldehyde resin is a liquid with a slight pleasant smell.Polyurethane comes as liquid or solid, while its monomer, Urethane, is a white flourlike powder or sand-like crystal. POLLUTION FROM SHOE FACTORIES Pollution from shoe factories. Most factories haul their waste materials off to be disposed of in dumps. When their waste contains chemicals, this can result in the contamination of the ground and groundwater. Where it is prohibited to dump chemicals in ordinary landfills, unethical companies try to save money by pouring wastessuch as dyes
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WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes. WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER AN ABORTION What to Expect after an Abortion. Normal monthly bleeding should start about 4 to 6 weeks after an abortion. But you can become pregnant again after 11 days. After an abortion, signs of pregnancy, like nausea and sore breasts, should disappear within a day. If it was a medical abortion, breasts may stay sore for a week or two. ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane) SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT A living wage is a human right. The minimum wage should be enough money to cover basic needs — a place to live, water, and food for a worker and her family. But people need to do more than just survive. We need a decent home, enough healthy and nutritious food for our families, and to earn enough to pay our monthly bills as well as savefor
TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If CHAPTER 42: RANGE-OF-MOTION AND OTHER EXERCISES Chapter 42: Range-of-Motion and Other Exercises. As much as possible, disabled children should get their exercise in ways that are useful and fun! All children need exercise to keep their bodies strong, flexible, and healthy. Most village children get all the exercise they need through ordinary daily activity: crawling, walking, running LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES KOTE FANM PA JWENN DOKTÈ An excellent companion to Health Actions for Women, Where Women Have No Doctor combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to care. This accessible, illustrated guide is a must-have resource for women and health care providers. HOME - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESBOOKS AND RESOURCESGET INVOLVEDABOUT USBOOKSTOREDONATERESOURCES BY LANGUAGE Action for Health. Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit health information and health education source that supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. We develop easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. All are available through our bookstore and the new Hesperian DigitalCommons.
WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes. WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER AN ABORTION What to Expect after an Abortion. Normal monthly bleeding should start about 4 to 6 weeks after an abortion. But you can become pregnant again after 11 days. After an abortion, signs of pregnancy, like nausea and sore breasts, should disappear within a day. If it was a medical abortion, breasts may stay sore for a week or two. ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane) SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT A living wage is a human right. The minimum wage should be enough money to cover basic needs — a place to live, water, and food for a worker and her family. But people need to do more than just survive. We need a decent home, enough healthy and nutritious food for our families, and to earn enough to pay our monthly bills as well as savefor
TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If CHAPTER 42: RANGE-OF-MOTION AND OTHER EXERCISES Chapter 42: Range-of-Motion and Other Exercises. As much as possible, disabled children should get their exercise in ways that are useful and fun! All children need exercise to keep their bodies strong, flexible, and healthy. Most village children get all the exercise they need through ordinary daily activity: crawling, walking, running LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES KOTE FANM PA JWENN DOKTÈ An excellent companion to Health Actions for Women, Where Women Have No Doctor combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to care. This accessible, illustrated guide is a must-have resource for women and health care providers. HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES The most widely-used manual for health workers, educators, and others involved in primary care and health promotion around the world. Newly updated in May, 2020 to include the latest information on antibiotics and other medicines, malaria treatment, HIV, pre-eclampsia, contraception, and more. Also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Kreyol, Urdu, and Bambara.PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. CAUSES OF DISABILITY Poverty and malnutrition. Poverty is one of the biggest causes of disability. Poor people are most vulnerable to disability because they are forced to live and work in unsafe environments with poor sanitation, crowded living conditions, and with little access to education, clean water, or WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
CHEMICALS USED IN MINING Toxic chemicals used in mining include: cyanide, sulfuric acid, and solvents for separating minerals from ore. nitric acid. ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (“ANFO”) used in blasting tunnels. heavy metals such as mercury, uranium, and lead. gasoline, diesel fuel, and exhaust fumes from vehicles and equipment. acetylene for welding andsoldering.
SEX AND GENDER ROLES Sex and Gender Roles. Each person is born with either a girl’s body or a boy’s body. These physical differences determine a person’s sex. A person’s gender role refers to the way a community defines what it is to be a woman or a man. Each community expects women and men to look, think, feel, and act in certain ways, simply because they TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If CLEAN AND STERILIZE TOOLS Use boiling to sterilize metal tools, rubber or plastic equipment (like mucus bulbs), and cloth. After you wash and rinse your tools, cover with water. and boil for 20 minutes. Start counting the 20 minutes when the water starts boiling. Use sterilized tongs, chopsticks, or spoons to GETTING RID OF TRASH SAFELY Getting to Zero Waste. Waste and the Law. Whatever cannot be reused, recycled, or composted should be gotten rid of safely. Some people say burning trash is best. Others prefer to bury it, to avoid the smoke produced by burning trash. The fact is, both of these ways of disposing of trash have problems. In places where paper and cardboardcannot
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WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes. WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER AN ABORTION What to Expect after an Abortion. Normal monthly bleeding should start about 4 to 6 weeks after an abortion. But you can become pregnant again after 11 days. After an abortion, signs of pregnancy, like nausea and sore breasts, should disappear within a day. If it was a medical abortion, breasts may stay sore for a week or two. ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane) SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT A living wage is a human right. The minimum wage should be enough money to cover basic needs — a place to live, water, and food for a worker and her family. But people need to do more than just survive. We need a decent home, enough healthy and nutritious food for our families, and to earn enough to pay our monthly bills as well as savefor
TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If CHAPTER 42: RANGE-OF-MOTION AND OTHER EXERCISES Chapter 42: Range-of-Motion and Other Exercises. As much as possible, disabled children should get their exercise in ways that are useful and fun! All children need exercise to keep their bodies strong, flexible, and healthy. Most village children get all the exercise they need through ordinary daily activity: crawling, walking, running LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES KOTE FANM PA JWENN DOKTÈ An excellent companion to Health Actions for Women, Where Women Have No Doctor combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to care. This accessible, illustrated guide is a must-have resource for women and health care providers. HOME - HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDESBOOKS AND RESOURCESGET INVOLVEDABOUT USBOOKSTOREDONATERESOURCES BY LANGUAGE Action for Health. Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit health information and health education source that supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realize the right to health. We develop easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. All are available through our bookstore and the new Hesperian DigitalCommons.
WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR A HEALTH GUIDE FOR WOMEN Chapter 3: The Medical System. The Medical System. How to Get Better Care. If You Need to Go to the Hospital. Working for Change. Chapter 4: Understanding our Bodies. A Woman’s Reproductive System. A Man’s Reproductive System. How a Woman’s Body Changes. WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER AN ABORTION What to Expect after an Abortion. Normal monthly bleeding should start about 4 to 6 weeks after an abortion. But you can become pregnant again after 11 days. After an abortion, signs of pregnancy, like nausea and sore breasts, should disappear within a day. If it was a medical abortion, breasts may stay sore for a week or two. ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO STAND AND WALK Activities to help your child learn many kinds of movement. Hand and finger skills. Contents. 1 To help your child learn to stand. 2 To help your child learn to walk. 3 To help your child learn to walk up and down stairs. 4 To help your child use his arms for guidance. 5 To help your child learn to use a stick (cane) SUSTAINABLE FARMING IN THE CITY Use a digging fork or shovel to loosen the soil at the bottom of the ditch and add some compost or manure to it. Dig a second ditch across the bed. Put the soil from the second ditch into the first ditch. Loosen the soil at the bottom, and spread compost or A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT A living wage is a human right. The minimum wage should be enough money to cover basic needs — a place to live, water, and food for a worker and her family. But people need to do more than just survive. We need a decent home, enough healthy and nutritious food for our families, and to earn enough to pay our monthly bills as well as savefor
TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If CHAPTER 42: RANGE-OF-MOTION AND OTHER EXERCISES Chapter 42: Range-of-Motion and Other Exercises. As much as possible, disabled children should get their exercise in ways that are useful and fun! All children need exercise to keep their bodies strong, flexible, and healthy. Most village children get all the exercise they need through ordinary daily activity: crawling, walking, running LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES KOTE FANM PA JWENN DOKTÈ An excellent companion to Health Actions for Women, Where Women Have No Doctor combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to care. This accessible, illustrated guide is a must-have resource for women and health care providers. HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES The most widely-used manual for health workers, educators, and others involved in primary care and health promotion around the world. Newly updated in May, 2020 to include the latest information on antibiotics and other medicines, malaria treatment, HIV, pre-eclampsia, contraception, and more. Also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Kreyol, Urdu, and Bambara.PROTECTED WELLS
After an hour, remove the bricks and the tin mold and shape the protective collar. For the collar to give the best protection, a tin cover should fit snugly over it. Let the slab harden overnight and cure for at least 5 days, keeping it wet the entire time. Before putting the slab on a well, test its strength. CAUSES OF DISABILITY Poverty and malnutrition. Poverty is one of the biggest causes of disability. Poor people are most vulnerable to disability because they are forced to live and work in unsafe environments with poor sanitation, crowded living conditions, and with little access to education, clean water, or WHAT CAUSES GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE? The unequal status of men and women is the primary cause of gender-based violence. This inequality includes beliefs that women should be economically dependent on men, and that women and children are a man’s possessions and under his control. Contents. 1 Women share stories, tears, and anger. 2 The difference between causes and"triggers" of
CHEMICALS USED IN MINING Toxic chemicals used in mining include: cyanide, sulfuric acid, and solvents for separating minerals from ore. nitric acid. ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (“ANFO”) used in blasting tunnels. heavy metals such as mercury, uranium, and lead. gasoline, diesel fuel, and exhaust fumes from vehicles and equipment. acetylene for welding andsoldering.
SEX AND GENDER ROLES Sex and Gender Roles. Each person is born with either a girl’s body or a boy’s body. These physical differences determine a person’s sex. A person’s gender role refers to the way a community defines what it is to be a woman or a man. Each community expects women and men to look, think, feel, and act in certain ways, simply because they TREATMENT FOR PESTICIDE POISONING Treatment. If you or someone else gets pesticides on the body: Quickly remove any clothing the pesticides spilled onto. Wash the pesticides off the skin as soon as possible with soap and cool water. If it got into the eye, rinse the eye with clean water for 15 minutes. If CLEAN AND STERILIZE TOOLS Use boiling to sterilize metal tools, rubber or plastic equipment (like mucus bulbs), and cloth. After you wash and rinse your tools, cover with water. and boil for 20 minutes. Start counting the 20 minutes when the water starts boiling. Use sterilized tongs, chopsticks, or spoons to GETTING RID OF TRASH SAFELY Getting to Zero Waste. Waste and the Law. Whatever cannot be reused, recycled, or composted should be gotten rid of safely. Some people say burning trash is best. Others prefer to bury it, to avoid the smoke produced by burning trash. The fact is, both of these ways of disposing of trash have problems. In places where paper and cardboardcannot
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