A Community Guide to Environmental Health
by Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem
Published in May 2008, paperback, 620 pages, illustrated, ISBN: 978-0-942364-56-9
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From toilets to toxics, from watershed management to waste management, from raising crops to rising temperatures, how we use natural resources affects our health and well-being.
This highly illustrated guide helps health promoters, development workers, environmental activists, and community leaders take charge of their environmental health. In small villages and large cities, A Community Guide to Environmental Health can provide the tools, knowledge, and inspiration to begin transforming the crisis in environmental health.
This book contains activities to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, inspirational stories, and instructions for simple health technologies such as water purification methods, safe toilets, and non-toxic cleaning products. 23 chapters cover topics including:
With hundreds of drawings to make the messages clear, A Community Guide to Environmental Health will be useful for people just beginning to address environmental health threats, as well as people with many years experience in the field.
"This timely guide is the Where There is
No Doctor of community water, sanitation
and environmental health. It makes water, health and
hygiene accessible to those who need it most. Focusing on
the important intersection of public health and risk
reduction at the community level FOR the community, this
guide is literally a lifesaver." - Miriam
Aschkenasy MD, MPH Public Health Specialist, Oxfam America
"You have produced something quite extraordinary.
The Community Guide will certainly be much used for the
benefit of poor communities around the world. Too little
has been done to provide this type of practical and
useful information to communities. The human rights
approach in the guide is especially useful."
- Ingvar Andersson, former Head of Water Division,
Swedish International Development Cooperation (Sida)
"A Community Guide to Environmental Health
will restore hope in communities that they
can play active roles in preserving environmental health
and by so doing, stay healthy. With this excellent Guide,
community people can now learn how to protect themselves
and also know what projects to resist in their communities.
A very timely publication." - Nnimmo Bassey,
Director, Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria
"This book shows the myriad ways in which water is
essential to health, and how our health is threatened by
those who would deny our right to water through privatization,
pollution, and profiteering. An incredible educational
and organizing tool in the struggle for water democracy
and global survival." - Maude Barlowe, Director
and co-founder, Blue Planet Project; and National
Chairperson, Council of Canadians
"A Community Guide to Environmental Health
, another great book of the Hesperian
Foundation on helping communities especially poor and
marginalized communities is a welcome and very useful
guide in addressing seemingly common but aggravating
environmental health issues in the every day lives of
people that don’t have access to formal and expensive
health care programs. This book offers inexpensive and
practical and environment friendly ways to handle health
and environment problems in the home, work place and in
the community in general." - Sonia Mendoza,
Director, Mother Earth Foundation, Philippines
