Practical Women's Health Set

An essential pair of books focusing on women's health! Together, Where Women Have No Doctor and Health Actions for Women are a powerful combination offering practical medical information and strategies to address the social obstacles that prevent women and girls from enjoying healthy lives. This set is available in English, Lao, and Nepali. 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. Health Actions for Women addresses the social obstacles and practices that prevent women and girls from enjoying healthy lives. This resource offers proven strategies and activities to help women and men facilitate community discussions and action around such topics as family planning, sexuality, HIV, and gender-based violence, even in challenging settings where education and organizing for women’s and girls’ health is difficult or dangerous.