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A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities

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Download the entire book: A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities (PDF).

View and download individual chapters of A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities below:

• Front matter: How to use this book, Credits and Thanks, Contents
• Introduction: Why a book about health for women with disabilities?
• 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
• Chapter 6: Health exams
• Chapter 7: Sexuality
• Chapter 8: Sexual health
• Chapter 9: Family planning
• Chapter 10: Pregnancy
• Chapter 11: Labor and birth
• Chapter 12: Caring for your baby
• Chapter 13: Growing older with a disability
• Chapter 14: Abuse, violence, and self-defense
• Chapter 15: Support for Caregivers
• Medicines (green pages)
• Appendix A:Take care of your equipment
• Appendix B: Sign language for health
• List of difficult words (glossary)
• To learn more (resources)
• Index (yellow pages)