Price: $89.95

Format:
Paperback 432 pp.
15 illustrations, 190 mm x 245 mm

ISBN-10:
019555129X

ISBN-13:
9780195551297

Copyright Year:
2009

Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand

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Understanding Health

A Determinants Approach, Second Edition

Edited by Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall

Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach contains a wealth of challenging and engaging topics that, all together, clearly explain the frameworks of health. It investigates the determinants of health-societal, political, cultural, environmental, biological and economic-from a range of perspectives relevant to both students and practitioners. Current and emerging developments in public health are covered extensively, to prepare students to challenge conventions and work for change within the health sector.

Readership : First year health sciences, health promotion, public health and nursing students.

Part 1: Determinants Thinking
1. Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall: Understanding health
2. Helen Keleher: Public health and primary health care
3. Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall: Understanding the determinants of health
4. Jan Garrard: Evidence and public health: data, discourses and debates
5. Judith Raftery: Critical perspectives on public health history
Part 2: Understanding Social Determinants of Health and Well-being
6. Bill Genat and Kyllie Cripps: Understanding the determinants of Aboriginal health
7. Shane Houston: Cultural security as a determinant of Aboriginal health
8. Rosemary Nicholson and Peter Stephenson: Natural environments as determinants of health
9. Gilbert Blandin de Chalain and Peter Stephenson: The built environment as a determinant of health
10. Mardie Townsend and Matthew Ebden: Natural environments
11. Helen Keleher: Social exclusion
12. Cathy Vaughan: Vulnerability and globalisation
13. Belinda Lewis and Jeff Lewis: Conflict, insecurity and disasters
14. Anthony LaMontagne and Tessa Keegel: The work environment as a determinant of health
15. Jill Blackmore and Annelies Kamp: Education as a determinant of health and well-being
16. Craig Fry and Paul Dietze: Alcohol and drugs: determinants and interventions
17. Boyd Swinburn, Kate Carey and David Cameron-Smith: Biological determinants of health
18. Paul Ward: Equity of access to health care services
Part 3: Determinants of Health and Well-being Across the Life-course
19. Colin MacDougall: Understanding twenty-first-century childhood
20. Johanna Wyn: Social determinants of young people's health in a risk society
21. Michael Bentley: Men and health: a determinants approach
22. Helen Keleher: Determinants of women's health and well-being
23. Lyn Walker, Michael Flood and Kim Webster: Violence against women: a key determinant of health and well-being
24. Helen Keleher and Nerida Joss: Determinants of healthy ageing
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

Helen Keleher is Head and Professor of Health Science in the Department of Health Science at Monash University. Colin MacDougall is Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research) in the Department of Public Health at Flinders University.

Health Promotion and Health Services - Anne Johnson and Kevin Paton
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Special Features

  • New chapters covering contemporary issues, including Aboriginal health and the effects of natural and built environments on health.
  • Case Studies that bring theory to life. They highlight the various disciplines' approaches to practice, while contextualising global and local practices.