Hesperian Health Guides
A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
Table of Contents
- Introductory Material
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Disability and the community
- Chapter 2: Organizing for disability-friendly health care
- Chapter 3: Mental health
- Chapter 4: Understanding your body
- Chapter 5: Taking care of your body
- Eat well for good health
- Keep your body moving
- Preventing common health problems
- Passing urine and stool
- Treating and preventing urinary infections
- Bowel control
- Monthly bleeding
- Discharge from the vagina
- Pressure sores
- Sudden high blood pressure with pounding headache (dysreflexia)
- Managing pain
- Working for change
- Chapter 6: Health Exams
- Chapter 7: Sexuality
- Chapter 8: Sexual health: Preventing sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS
- Chapter 9: Family planning
- Chapter 10: Pregnancy
- Chapter 11: Labor and birth
- Chapter 12: Caring for your baby
- Breastfeeding the baby
- If you cannot breastfeed
- Problems with breastfeeding
- HIV/AIDS and breastfeeding
- Using other kinds of milk
- Feeding an older baby
- Comforting the baby
- Sleeping with the baby
- Changing and dressing the baby
- Cleaning the baby
- Carrying and moving about with the baby
- Keeping up with the baby
- Protecting children’s health
- Chapter 13: Growing older with a disability
- Chapter 14: Abuse, violence, and self-defense
- Chapter 15: Support for caregivers
- How to use the green pages
- Appendix: Take care of your equipment
- Appendix: Sign language for health
- List of difficult words
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Other Resources for People with Disabilities
This page was updated:06 Jan 2024