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Chapter 9 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It explains the goal of hygiene promotion and how communities can achieve this goal. It identifies some key steps for establishing a hygiene promotion project including the evaluation of current hygiene practices, the selection of good hygiene practices to promote, and the implementation and evaluation of the health promotion programme.

Chapter 10 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It stresses the importance of participation by community members in the planning of health care services. It emphasizes the significance of understanding current health practices and community needs when planning health care interventions. It offers a guide to providing health care services.

Chapter 11 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It offers a guide for establishing committees for Healthy Villages programmes and discusses the key roles of committees in implementing the programmes. It describes the kind of support that community leaders may expect from the local and national government when developing a Healthy Villages initiative.

Chapter 8 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It offers a guide to promoting personal, domestic and community hygiene. It discusses various measures for improving personal and community hygiene practices that can help prevent the spread of fecal-oral diseases. It also explains the importance of handwashing, regular bathing and laundering to personal and domestic hygiene.

Chapter 7 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It stresses the significance of good housing quality for ensuring a healthy community. It cites some of the problems associated with poor housing including poor household hygiene, poor indoor air quality, stress and transmission of infectious diseases. It discusses some aspects of housing quality including ventilation, lighting and disease vectors in the home.

Chapter 6 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It explains the significance of solid waste management and chemical safety in the promotion of individual and community health. It states that untreated refuse provides a breeding ground for disease vectors. It identifies two key strategies for solid waste management: minimizing and recycling wastes. It also discusses some of the methods for managing household and community solid wastes.

Chapter 5 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It explains the significance of proper drainage as an environmental health intervention for reducing disease. It cites the problems caused by poor drainage including floods, contamination of domestic water sources and spread of diseases such as typhoid and cholera. It discusses some methods for improving community drainage.

Chapter 3 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It explains the significance of water in the promotion of community health. It identifies the various factors that impact the availability of water in communities including climate changes, increasing demand and environmental degradation. It stresses the need for communities to manage their water resources better and supply water for specific uses.

Chapter 2 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It offers a guide to achieving good health of both individuals and the communities in which they live. It identifies the various factors that influence health including the environment, the awareness of individuals and communities about health, and personal hygiene. It provides a guide to identifying health issues and establishing health priorities in communities.

Chapter 1 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It cites the purposes and structure of the guide. It identifies the various factors that determine the health of both individuals and the communities in which they live including income, social relationships, and access to and use of basic services such as water and sanitation. It also lists the characteristics of a healthy community.

Chapter 4 of the book "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented. It emphasizes the significance of safe disposal of excreta for ensuring a healthy environment and for protecting personal health. It states that the safe disposal of human feces can break the fecal-oral disease transmission cycle. It discusses the various technologies for excreta disposal including the cartage, the pit latrine systems and septic tanks.

A list of books related to community health is presented. It includes "Hygiene Evaluation Procedures: Approaches and Methods for Assessing Water- and Sanitation-Related Hygiene Practices," by A.M. Almedom, U. Blumenthal and L. Manderson, "Community Nursing in Developing Countries: A Manual for the Community Nurse," 2nd ed., by M. Byrne and F. J. Bennett, and "Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics: An Introductory Text," 2nd ed., by S. Cairncross and R. G. Feachem.

The article lists some organizations that provide support to Healthy Villages projects at both the local and national levels. It provides the contact addresses for World Health Organization headquarters and regional offices. It lists some of the United Nations organizations that have a national office in countries, as well as nongovernmental organizations that provide technical or financial support to a Healthy Villages programme.

A foreword to "Healthy Villages: A Guide for Communities and Community Health Workers" is presented.

People that the authors would like to thank for their assistance in the creation of their book are mentioned.