Community Health and Wellness - E-book: Primary Health Care in Practice

Community Health and Wellness - E-book: Primary Health Care in Practice

Community Health and Wellness - E-book: Primary Health Care in Practice

Community Health and Wellness - E-book: Primary Health Care in Practice

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Overview

Community Health&Wellness: Primary health care in practice, 5th Edition represents contemporary thinking and research in community health and wellness from Australia, New Zealand and the global community.

It challenges students and health professionals to become more aware of the primary health care (PHC) environments in which they work in order to gain an understanding of what is socially determining the health of the individuals, families and communities within their care.

  • Provides a focus on primary health care practice in Australia and New Zealand
  • Research and evidence-based practice throughout each chapter
  • Group exercises that can be used in practice or tutorial groups
  • Reflective questions to challenge the understanding of key principles and practice
  • Additional resources for lecturers via Evolve.
  • • Two new chapters:

    • Chapter 3 Assessing the Community
    • Chapter 6 Working in groups

  • • The SDH Assessment Circle - a new model for community assessment
  • • Stronger emphasis on working with migrant and refugee families
  • • A new continuous case study – the Mason and Smith families; both fly-in fly-out (FIFO) families.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780729582230
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date: 10/01/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 588
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Anne McMurray is a registered nurse, a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing and Member, Order of Australia (AM). She is Emeritus Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Queensland, Emeritus Professor, School of Nursing, Murdoch University, Perth and Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of the Sunshine Coast. Anne has practised in a range of nursing and community health settings in Canada and Australia, and is actively involved in research and research supervision, publishing and mentoring. She is an Expert Advisor on Primary Health Care to the International Council of Nurses. Anne was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday honours list for services to nursing, particularly in the development of nurse education and community health practices, and as a contributor to professional publications.

Table of Contents

SECTION 1: WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES

1. Creating and Maintaining a Healthy Community

2. Communities of Place

3. Assessing the Community

4. Planning and Promoting Community Health: Principles and practices

5. Nursing Roles

6. Working with Groups

SECTION 2: SUSTAINABLE HEALTH FOR FAMILY AND INDIVIDUALS7. Healthy families8. Healthy children9. Healthy adolescents10. Healthy adults11. Healthy ageingSECTION 3: INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETIES12. Inclusive communities: Gender, culture and power

13. Cultural Inclusiveness: safe cultures, healthy Indigenous people

14. Inclusive policies, equitable health care systems

15. Building the evidence base: Research to practice

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