Towards Holistic Health for Children: A Hand Book for Parents, Teachers and Children Workers

Towards Holistic Health for Children is a Handbook of Dr. Mercy Mauki’s conceptions about children and family issues over a period of 20 years as a teacher, counsellor, mentor and consultant in secondary schools, technical institute and universities. Therefore, this book, the first in the series, contains seven chapters which address different themes in a simplified way. The book takes the readers through topics such as: holistic health in families, children’s needs, health as preventive, curative and promotive, childhood ailments and diseases as well as factors that impact on children’s health.  This is an easy-to-read handbook, very resourceful to students, teachers, parents and all children workers in schools, colleges, churches and para-churches both in Kenya, Africa and beyond.