Maternal and Child Health Handbooks: From Japan to the World

Nakamura surrounded by nursery school children on the Indonesian island of Lombok.

Nakamura (second from left) with health volunteers in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

The cover of an Indonesian maternal and child health handbook.

A child in central Indonesia holding her handbook.

Rawan Hussein, a Palestinian living in a refugee camp, holds a paper maternal and child health handbook and a smartphone with a companion app, at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency clinic in Amman, Jordan, on April 4, 2017. Refugees have taken to calling the handbooks “life passports.” (© Jiji)

A Cameroonian version of the handbook.

Handbooks from around the world.

Nakamura listening to a handbook explanation in East Timor.

Umi o watatta boshi techō (Maternal and Child Health Handbooks Across the Sea)