Recruiting the Heart, Training the Brain
Recruiting the Heart, Training the Brain tells the story of how Latino Health Access developed its groundbreaking promotor model of peer-to-peer
outreach and education in Santa Ana, California. Facing problems such as obesity and diabetes, their strategies, advice, and accomplishments will spark hope and change throughout communities. Also available in Spanish.
$19.95
Workers' Guide to Health and Safety
Easy to use and full of illustrations, the Workers' Guide to Health and Safety demystifies occupational safety to make it accessible to everyone. It provides essential tools to support employees, health promoters and union organizers in their efforts to create safer and healthier
workplaces. The strategies are applicable to any factory setting, especially electronics, shoe and garment industries.
$34.95
Health Actions for Women
Health Actions for Women addresses the social factors that prevent women and girls from enjoying healthy lives. This guide offers proven strategies to help women and men facilitate community discussions and action, even in challenging settings where organizing for women’s health is difficult or dangerous. Also available in Spanish, Khmer, Lao and Nepali.
$24.95
Health Rights Are Civil Rights
Health Rights Are Civil Rights situates health in the struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, anti-war, welfare rights, and women's movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems and structural violence, working to establish the principle that health is a right.
$24.95
Comrades in Health
In Comrades in Health, Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown bring together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to international health. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection aims to draw attention to the longstanding activities of progressive US health professionals and the lessons they brought home. Their involvement is presented against the background of foreign and domestic policy, social movements, and global politics.
$29.95
Revolutionary Medicine
On the Atlantic coast of Honduras live the Garifuna, an Afro-Indigenous people with their own language and traditions. Revolutionary Medicine covers what happens when they decide to build their own hospital — run on solar energy, in a community without paved roads or electricity — and offer an alternative to the increasingly privatized national health system.
$14.95
Revolutionary Doctors
Since the creation of the Venezuelan health mission Barrio Adentro, thousands of Cuban medical professionals have provided quality health care for some of Venezuela's poorest communities. Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community health care, designed to serve, and largely carried out by, the poor themselves.
$18.95
Birth Work as Care Work
This collection presents a vibrant collection of stories from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more become political, and birth workers, supporters, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity.
$14.95
Training for Transformation, Vols. 1-3
Training for Transformation is designed to assist workers in the field who are encouraging the development of self-reliant creative communities.
The set consists of three practical and easy-to-use handbooks that are useful for anyone working toward transforming society.
$59.95
Training for Transformation, Vol. 4
Training for Transformation is designed to assist workers in the field who are encouraging the development of self-reliant creative communities. This new volume is divided into easy-to-follow modules, which can be covered in any order, making it a practical and accessible workbook for community development workers.
$39.95
Training for Transformation in Practice
Training for Transformation in Practice shares 27 stories of how the Training for Transformation approach has been adapted in countries all over the world.
In widely different contexts and cultures, this method has evoked strong creative leadership and deep commitment, sometimes bringing about major changes at the cultural and legal levels.
The book is inspiring reading for students and practitioners of adult education and community organizing.
$31.95
Health Organizing Set
Three action-based resources that provide concrete strategies and activities for organizing for better health in your community. Topics include environmental health, women’s health and rights, and workers’ health and safety, through the three titles: A Community Guide to Environmental Health, Health Actions for Women and Workers’ Guide to Health and Safety.
Regularly $91.85 if purchased separately, this set is now $74.95 - a savings of 20%!
Regularly $91.85 if purchased separately, this set is now $74.95 - a savings of 20%!
$74.95