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Understanding Health 4th edition introduces students to the core issues concerning individual and community health. It examines public health, health promotion, social determinants of health and primary health care as a means of achieving greater fairness, social justice and health equity.
The new edition provides an update of important new developments in determinants thinking with new material on how to take action on the social determinants of health giving practical strategies for improving health practice and health outcomes. In essence, the book presents the key trials influencing current clinical practice,
Understanding Health
by Keleher, Helen; MacDougall, ColinEdition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2016-04-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Helen Keleher, Adjunct Professor, Monash University,Colin MacDougall, Professor, Flinders University
Helen Keleher is an Adjunct Professor at Monash University and a Consultant
Colin MacDougall is a Professor and Executive member of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, at Flinders University; and Principal Fellow (Honorary) Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at University of Melbourne
Table of Contents
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING HEALTH
1. Concepts of Health
2. Determinants of Health
3. Primary Health Care
4. Public Health
5. Population Health
6. Global Health
7. Health Promotion
PART 2: MEASURING HEALTH
8. Measuring Health
9. Epidemiology
10. Evidence in Public Health
PART 3: SHAPING AND IMPROVING HEALTH
11. Determinants of Behaviours
12. Social Determinants and the Health of Australias First Peoples
13. Ecology and Health
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14. Human Rights and Health
15. Marginalised populations
PART 4: STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH PRACTICE
16. Social Marketing
17. Health Education for Empowerment
18. Program Planning and Evaluation
19. Policy for Health
20. Organisational Change
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