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Abstract
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.
• global insights with a focus on primary health care practice in Australia and New Zealand• promotion of community health care across the lifespan
• a unique socio-ecological approach to community health
• the Ottawa Charter, the Jakarta Declaration and the Bangkok Charter are included as contemporary health promotion guidelines for practice
• extensive references providing current, specific source information
• an emphasis on health literacy, intervention and health promotion
• an evolving case study in each chapter, with links to reflective activities
• a focus on learning outcomes to facilitate the integration of policy, research and practice
• exploration of Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery roles in primary health care practice
• strong pedagogy to increase engagement and emphasise key community health issues
• reflective exercises and action points encouraging readers to consider key issues, their implications and next steps
• research studies exemplifying each chapter’s central theme and promoting evidence-based practice
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover\r | Cover | ||
| Dedication | ii | ||
| Community Health and Wellness\r | iii | ||
| Copyright\r | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| About the authors | xv | ||
| Preface | xvii | ||
| Acknowledgements | xix | ||
| Reviewers | xix | ||
| Section 1 Healthy people, healthy places\r | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 - Health as a socio-ecological concept | 5 | ||
| Introduction | 5 | ||
| What is health? | 7 | ||
| Health and wellness | 7 | ||
| Defining ‘community’ and ‘community health’ | 9 | ||
| Community health and wellness | 9 | ||
| Social determinants of health | 11 | ||
| The role of communities in intergenerational health | 13 | ||
| Social capital | 14 | ||
| Sustainable community health | 15 | ||
| Community development: Helping communities change | 16 | ||
| Research to practice | 20 | ||
| References | 24 | ||
| Useful websites | 27 | ||
| Chapter 2 - Primary health care: principles and practices | 28 | ||
| Introduction | 28 | ||
| Clarification of terms | 29 | ||
| Public health, population health and primary health care: a brief history | 32 | ||
| PHC and the social gradient | 34 | ||
| PHC and the health promotion charters | 34 | ||
| PHC principles | 36 | ||
| Accessibility: a case of equity and social justice | 36 | ||
| Appropriate technology | 37 | ||
| Increased emphasis on health promotion | 39 | ||
| Health education | 40 | ||
| Cultural sensitivity, cultural safety | 41 | ||
| Intersectoral collaboration | 42 | ||
| Public participation | 43 | ||
| Community health promotion: The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion | 44 | ||
| Implications for community health promotion | 46 | ||
| References | 49 | ||
| Useful websites | 52 | ||
| Chapter 3 - Promoting health in an era of globalisation | 53 | ||
| Introduction | 53 | ||
| Globalisation | 53 | ||
| The pros and cons of globalisation | 55 | ||
| Globalisation as a health promotion variable | 57 | ||
| Health promotion strategies for global health | 58 | ||
| Building the evidence base: the population approach | 62 | ||
| The global burden of disease project | 63 | ||
| The epidemiology of health and ill health | 64 | ||
| Social epidemiology | 66 | ||
| Healthy cities | 68 | ||
| The Healthy Cities Movement | 69 | ||
| Health promotion planning: diarrhoea and dirt to community activism | 69 | ||
| Community-wide health promotion and the ‘new health education’ | 70 | ||
| Community assessment: health planning for the enabling community | 72 | ||
| Helping people change | 76 | ||
| References | 80 | ||
| Useful websites | 82 | ||
| Chapter 4 - Enabling health and wellness: practice roles and models of care | 83 | ||
| Introduction | 83 | ||
| The role of nurses and midwives in promoting social justice | 83 | ||
| Nurse practitioners and advanced practice: Models of practice | 85 | ||
| Experiences in the UK: Public health, population health and role development | 87 | ||
| Primary health care roles: Specialist or generalist? | 89 | ||
| Practice nursing: Australia | 90 | ||
| Practice And primary health care nursing: New Zealand | 91 | ||
| Managing chronic conditions in the community | 92 | ||
| Child health nursing practice | 94 | ||
| School health nursing | 95 | ||
| Rural and remote area nursing practice | 99 | ||
| Paramedic practice in the community | 102 | ||
| Community mental health nursing practice | 103 | ||
| Occupational health nursing | 105 | ||
| Collaborative models of nursing and midwifery in the community | 108 | ||
| References | 111 | ||
| Useful websites | 118 | ||
| Section 2 Sustainable health for the family and the individual\r | 120 | ||
| Chapter 5 - Healthy families | 123 | ||
| Introduction | 123 | ||
| The family, community and society | 123 | ||
| Defining the family | 125 | ||
| Family functions | 125 | ||
| Family developmental pathways | 126 | ||
| Changing families, changing partners, changing roles | 127 | ||
| Fertility, child bearing and population trends | 130 | ||
| Families and work | 131 | ||
| Couple relationships | 136 | ||
| Healthy couples, healthy families: communication and resilience | 138 | ||
| Marriage, separation, divorce and parenting | 140 | ||
| Violence in the family | 144 | ||
| Migrant families and health | 147 | ||
| Families dealing with illness | 148 | ||
| Rural families | 151 | ||
| Family life in the 21st century | 152 | ||
| Building healthy public policy | 153 | ||
| Creating supportive environments | 156 | ||
| Strengthening community action | 157 | ||
| Developing personal skills | 159 | ||
| Reorienting health services | 160 | ||
| Section 3 Inclusive communities and societies \r | 298 | ||
| Chapter 10 - Health and gender: healthy women, healthy men | 301 | ||
| Introduction | 301 | ||
| Inequality, social exclusion and gender | 302 | ||
| Empowerment | 303 | ||
| Women’s health issues | 304 | ||
| Women and social disadvantage | 307 | ||
| Intimate partner violence and empowerment | 308 | ||
| Men’s health issues | 310 | ||
| Men’s lifestyles and health | 311 | ||
| Men’s health risks | 312 | ||
| Masculinity, behaviour and the men’s health movement | 313 | ||
| The need for men’s and women’s health policies | 314 | ||
| Men, women and intimacy | 314 | ||
| Gender issues among sexually diverse populations | 315 | ||
| Gendering society: goals for the health of men and women | 316 | ||
| Building healthy public policy | 317 | ||
| Creating supportive environments | 318 | ||
| Strengthening community action | 319 | ||
| Developing personal skills | 320 | ||
| Reorienting health services | 321 | ||
| References | 324 | ||
| Useful websites | 328 | ||
| Chapter 11 - Cultural inclusiveness: safe cultures, healthy Indigenous people | 329 | ||
| Introduction | 329 | ||
| Culture and health | 330 | ||
| Culture conflict | 331 | ||
| Cultural safety | 332 | ||
| Multiculturalism | 333 | ||
| Ethnocentrism to racism | 333 | ||
| Aboriginality, culture and health | 335 | ||
| The health of Indigenous people throughout the world | 338 | ||
| The health of Australian Indigenous people | 339 | ||
| The health of New Zealand Māori | 341 | ||
| Behavioural risk factors | 342 | ||
| Mental health and healing | 343 | ||
| Injury and family violence | 345 | ||
| Addressing the problems through healing and empowerment | 346 | ||
| Building capacity and social capital | 346 | ||
| Goals for Indigenous health | 348 | ||
| Building healthy public policy | 348 | ||
| Creating supportive environments | 351 | ||
| Strengthening community action | 352 | ||
| Developing personal skills | 353 | ||
| Reorienting health services | 355 | ||
| References | 358 | ||
| Useful websites | 362 | ||
| Chapter 12 - Building the evidence base: research to practice | 363 | ||
| Introduction | 363 | ||
| Global community health research | 364 | ||
| Social determinants of health and the research agenda | 366 | ||
| Conducting research for policy and practice | 367 | ||
| Researching the community: paradigms and strategies | 375 | ||
| Researching culture | 377 | ||
| Researching the future | 381 | ||
| Getting started: from research question to solution | 384 | ||
| References | 388 | ||
| Useful websites | 391 | ||
| Chapter 13 - Inclusive policies, equitable health care systems | 392 | ||
| Introduction | 392 | ||
| Politics, policy-making and health care | 393 | ||
| Health services policies and the social determinants of health | 395 | ||
| Policy-making and primary health care | 396 | ||
| Policy action at the national level: think global, act local | 397 | ||
| The need for policy integration: lessons from mental health | 397 | ||
| The New Zealand health care system | 400 | ||
| The Australian health care system | 403 | ||
| Health care: building a better system | 407 | ||
| Best practice in health care systems | 408 | ||
| Concluding comments | 409 | ||
| References | 411 | ||
| Useful websites | 413 | ||
| Appendix A - Symbols used in a genogram\r | 417 | ||
| Appendix B - Jakarta declaration on leading healthpromotion into the 21st century | 419 | ||
| Appendix C - People’s health charter | 421 | ||
| Appendix D - The bangkok charter for health promotion in a globalized world | 429 | ||
| Appendix E - Chart for community assessment\r | 433 | ||
| Appendix F - Transforming Australia for our children’s future: making prevention work\r | 435 | ||
| Appendix G - HEEADSSS assessment tool for use with adolescents\r | 439 | ||
| Appendix H ECOMAP\r | 443 | ||
| Index | 444 |