Community Health and Wellness
Primary Health Care in Practice
By- Anne McMurray, AM, Phd, RN, FRCNA, Professor & Chair in Nursing, Murdoch University and the Peel Health Campus, WA, Australia
- Jill Clendon, RN, PhD
A new edition of the esteemed nursing text exploring social, cultural and political issues affecting individual and community health
What makes a healthy community? And how can nurses and midwives support community health and wellbeing?
In Community Health and Wellness, 4th Edition: Primary health care in practice, authors Anne McMurray and Jill Clendon advance the discussion of health as a product of the interaction between people and their environment.
Engagingly written and based on extensive research, this valuable nursing textbook is ideal for nursing students as well as those working in the field.
Issues such a gender and cultural inclusiveness provide essential backdrops to evidence-based policy, research and the provision of equitable health care for all.The Miller Family case study
This new edition of Community Health and Wellness features a common family case study running throughout the text.The Miller family crosses Australia and New Zealand; providing examples of primary health care issues in both countries.
These include child health services, accessing care, adolescent health, contemporary family issues, ageing, cultural support and inclusive health care.Audience
Undergraduate and post-graduate courses in health science and relevant social science courses which include subjects in community or primary health.
Paperback, 432 Pages
Published: December 2010
Imprint: Mosby
ISBN: 978-0-7295-3954-8
Contents
- SECTION 1: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS
1. Health and its socio-ecological determinants
2. Primary health care: Enabling health and wellness
3. Community health promotion in practice
4. Community health in a globalised era
SECTION 2: SUSTAINABLE HEALTH FOR THE FAMILY AND INDIVIDUAL
5. Healthy families
6. Healthy children
7. Healthy adolescents
8. Healthy adults
9. Healthy ageing
SECTION 3: INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETIES
10. Health and gender: Healthy women, healthy men
11. Healthy indigenous people
12. Building the base: Research to practice
13. Inclusive policies, equitable healthcare
