health education and preventive measures.
In Zimbabwe, after a long struggle for liberation, a scheme to train VHW was established at Bondolfi Mission. This was initiated by the local villagers themselves, and this reviewer has as one of his warmest memories the recollection of witnessing the first graduation of some 200 VHW at a ceremony in Bondolfi. Over five hours the recipients and audience applauded and shouted slogans as each VHW received her certificate, many with babies strapped to their backs!
There is a need for 'curative' services and appropriate technology in the underdeveloped world; the issue is who decides and by which criteria. Sanders suggests that this has to be decided by the community served by the health worker: 30 'But, most ditticult of all, the concerned health worker must be a servant to the people even when they are mistaken ir Society will only be transformed and ill health combatted when people are tree to make their own mistakes.
An excellent book, relating the development of health care to the underlying political and economic forces of international capitalism. I enthusiastically recommend it.
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