Understanding health / Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall.

Understanding Health, 4th edition, introduces students to all of the key health disciplines, examining public health, health promotion, social determinants of health and primary health care as a means of achieving greater fairness, social justice and health equity.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Keleher, Helen, 1950- (Editor)
MacDougall, Colin (Editor)
Language:English
Published: South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:Fourth edition.
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Physical Description:xviii, 349 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part 1 understanding health
  • 1. concepts of health / Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall
  • 2. determinants of health / Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall
  • 3. primary health care / Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall
  • 4. public health / Helen Keleher
  • 5. population health / Helen Keleher
  • 6. global health / Helen Keleher
  • 7. health promotion / Helen Keleher
  • part 2 measuring health
  • 8. health and well-being data / Helen Keleher
  • 9. epidemiology / Melissa Graham
  • 10. evidence in public health practice / Jan Garrard.
  • Part 3 shaping and improving health
  • 11. determinants of behaviours / Colin MacDougall
  • 12. social determinnats and the health of Australia's first peoples / Kim O'Donnell and Colin MacDougall
  • 13. ecology and health / Michael Bentley and Colin MacDougall
  • 14. human rights and health / Colin MacDougall and Helen Keleher
  • 15. marginalised populations / Karen Block
  • Part 4 strategies for health practice
  • 16. social marketing / Joshua D.Newton
  • 17. health education for empowerment / Helen Keleher
  • 18. program planning and evaluation / Helen Keleher
  • 19. policy for health / Helen Keleher
  • 20. organisational change / Paul Laris and Colin MacDougall.