Health for All: The Vanga Story
- ISBN-10
- 0878085351
- ISBN-13
- 9780878085354
- Category
- Medical policy
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- William Carey Library Publishers
- Author
- Daniel E. Fountain
Description
When Dan Fountain and his wife arrived in the Congo in 1961, the challenges to effective medical missions seemed overwhelming. As the only doctor for a quarter of a million residents of the Vanga Health Zone, and with nothing but a dilapidated mission hospital and an undertrained staff to run it, Dr. Fountain turned to prayer, innovation, and local partnerships to meet the vast needs of his area. Health for All tells the story of an ever-increasing vision--from curative care to community health, from a barely functioning hospital to a network of successful health services, from a lack of qualified workers to a local residency training program, from biomedical reductionism to whole person care, from cultural stalemate to worldview transformation. Dr. Fountain's insights into health and wholeness have changed countless lives and communities. Part memoir, part history, part textbook, Health for All is the legacy of a man who patterned his life and labor after that of the Great Physician.
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Other editions
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- 2002
- 255 pages
- Paperback
- Health Administration Press
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