By David Werner and Bill Bower

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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 ad The Authors