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Community Health and Wellness

Primary Health Care in Practice

  • 5th Edition - October 1, 2014
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Jill Clendon, Ailsa Munns
  • Language: English

Perfect for: • Bachelor of Nursing Students • Postgraduate Child and Adolescent Health Students • Postgraduate community-based Nursing • Bachelor of Midwifery Stude… Read more

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Perfect for:

  • • Bachelor of Nursing Students

  • • Postgraduate Child and Adolescent Health Students
  • • Postgraduate community-based Nursing
  • • Bachelor of Midwifery Students
  • • Bachelor of Public Health Students

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.

Key features

  • • 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.

Readership

Undergraduate and post-graduate courses in health science and relevant social science courses which include subjects in community or primary health.

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

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 10, 2015
  • Language: English

About the authors

JC

Jill Clendon

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor of Nursing, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

AM

Ailsa Munns

Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer | Course Coordinator Child and Adolescent Health Programs, Coordinator Community Mothers Program (WA), School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Curtin University, WA, Australia