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1 online resource (788 pages) |
| Contents |
Brief Contents; List of Boxes, Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Thanks and Appreciation; Introduction; PART 1 APPROACHES TO PUBLIC HEALTH; 1 Understanding Health: Definitions and Perspectives; 2 A History of Public Health; 3 The New Public Health Evolves; PART 2 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC HEALTH; 4 Ethics, Politics and Ideologies: The Invisible Hands of Public Health; 5 Neo-liberalism, Globalisation and Health; PART 3 RESEARCHING PUBLIC HEALTH; 6 Research for a New Public Health; 7 Epidemiology and Public Health; 8 Survey Research Methods in Public Health |
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9 Qualitative Research Methods10 Planning and Evaluation of Community-based Health Promotion; PART 4 HEALTH INEQUITIES: PROFILES, PATTERNS AND EXPLANATIONS; 11 Changing Health and Illness Profiles in the Twenty-first Century: Global and Australian Perspectives; 12 Patterns of Health Inequities in Australia; 13 The Social Determinants of Health Inequity; PART 5 UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: GLOBAL AND AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES; 14 Global Physical Threats to the Environment and Public Health; 15 Urbanisation, Population, Communities and Environments: Global Trends |
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PART 6 CREATING HEALTHY AND EQUITABLE SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENTS16 Healthy Economic Policies; 17 Sustainable Infrastructures for Health, Well-being and Equity; PART 7 HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING HEALTHY AND EQUITABLE SOCIETIES; 18 Medical and Health Service Interventions; 19 Changing Behaviour: The Limits of Behaviourism and Some Alternatives; 20 Participation and Health Promotion; 21 Community Development in Health; 22 Public Health Advocacy and Activism; 23 Healthy Settings, Cities, Communities and Organisations: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century |
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24 Healthy Public PolicyPART 8 PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TWENTYƯ-FIRST CENTURY; 25 Linking Local, National and Global Public Health; Appendix: Public Health Keywords; References; Index; Extended Contents; List of Boxes, Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Thanks and Appreciation; Introduction; PART 1 APPROACHES TO PUBLIC HEALTH; 1 Understanding Health: Definitions and Perspectives; Introduction; Health: the clockwork model of medicine; Health as the absence of illness; Measuring health; Health: ordinary people's perspectives; Public and private lay accounts |
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Health in cultural and economic contextsSpiritual aspects; Health: critical perspective; Health as 'outcomes'; Health and place: defining collective health; Population versus individual health: the heart of public health; Conclusion; 2 A History of Public Health; Introduction; Era of Indigenous control; Colonial legacy; Theories of disease causation; Public health legislation and sanitary reforms; Australian responses; Status quo or radical change?; Relearning the nineteenth-century lessons: McKeown and Szreter; Nation-building era; Affluence, medicine, social infrastructure; Conclusion |
| Summary |
The 4th edition of Fran Baum's The New Public Health is the most comprehensive book available on new public health. It offers readers the opportunity to gain a sense of scope of the new public health visions and combines theoretical and practical material to assist with understanding the social and economic determinants of health |
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3 The New Public Health Evolves |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 670-737) and index |
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Print version record |
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Public health -- Australia
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Health promotion -- Australia
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Public health.
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World health.
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Public Health
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Global Health
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public health.
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World health
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Health promotion
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Public health
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Australia
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| Reading List |
HME911 prescribed text 2024
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HME941 recommended text 2024
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195596298 |
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0195596293 |
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