THANKS
The creation of this book has been a long, cooperative effort. We have borrowed
ideas from many sources. Included in these pages are methods and suggestions from
health and development programs in 35 countries on 5 continents. Often we mention
the programs or countries from which particular ideas have come as we discuss them in
the text. Here, however, we give our warm thanks to all programs, groups, and persons
whose ideas, suggestions, and financial assistance have contributed to this book.
Our heartfelt appreciation goes to the village health team in Ajoya, Mexico,
especially to Martín Reyes, Miguel Angel Manjarrez, Roberto Fajardo, Miguel Angel
Alvarez, Pablo Chávez, Jesús Vega Castro, Rosa Salcido, Guadalupe Aragón, Alejandro
Alvarez, Teresa Torres, Anacleto Arana, and Marcelo Acevedo. It is from working with
the Ajoya team for many years that we have come to understand the meaning of
community-based health care.
We would also like to renew our thanks to the dedicated persons who helped put the
first edition of this book together back in 1982: Myra Polinger, Lynn Gordon, Mary Klein,
Michael Blake, Hal Lockwood, Christine Taylor, Richard Friedman, Susan Klein, Andy
Browne, Ken Tull of World Neighbors, Meg Granito, and Emily Goldfarb. Trude Bock
generously provided her home and all-round assistance during the three years it took to
give birth to this book.
Our special thanks to B.A. Laris for undertaking the editing, layout, and paste-up
for the tenth printing, making it easier to use with the 1992 revision of Where There
Is No Doctor. Davida Coady updated the antibiotic learning game found in Chapter 19
and Martín Lamarque provided current information on organizations that make practical
teaching materials available. Dorothy Tegeler coordinated the 14th printing with help from
Jacob Goolkasian, Todd Jailer, Jane Maxwell, Melody Segura, and Kathleen Tandy.
For their outstanding drawings, we thank Regina Faul-Jansen, Marie Ducruy, and
Pablo Chávez of the village health team in Ajoya. Pablo also invented and helped develop
several of the most imaginative teaching aids shown in this book. For many of the
drawings and most of the photographs, credit also goes to David Werner.
David Morley, Murray and Gerri Dickson, Fred Abbatt, Pia Moriarity, Sunil Mehra,
Laura Goldman, and Esther de Gally reviewed early drafts of this book. We remain
grateful for their valuable suggestions and encouragement.
Early drafts of Helping Health Workers Learn were field tested in Latin America,
Africa, and the Philippines. From these various field trials we received many helpful
ideas and suggestions. We are deeply thankful to all those health workers, instructors,
volunteers, and health officers who contributed.
For many years our books have been packaged and mailed by a dedicated group
of volunteers who contribute their labor to support Hesperian’s efforts to make health
information available. Without their commitment, far fewer copies of our publications
would now be available to people throughout the world. Our thanks to Barbara and Herb
Hultgren, Tom Beckett, Paul Chandler, Bob and Kay Schauer, Marge West, and Betsy
Wallace.
Over the years we have received financial assistance from many sources for the
development and distribution of this book. We are grateful to the Ella Lyman Cabot
Trust, the Public Welfare Foundation, Brot für die Welt, OXFAM England, the Sunflower
Foundation, Misereor, Helmut and Brigitte Gollwitzer, and Reinhart Freudenberg. We
also thank the Carnegie Corporation of New York for funding gratis distribution of this,
and other Hesperian publications, in Africa. We wish to thank the many generous friends
of Hesperian who have donated their time and resources to support the struggle for
better health and a better world.