Understanding Health A Determinants Approach

by Keleher, Helen; MacDougall, Colin

• ISBN13: 9780195551297
• ISBN10: 019555129X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach contains a wealth of challenging and engaging topics that, all together, clearly explain the frameworks of health. It investigates the determinants of health-societal, political, cultural, environmental, biological and economic-from a range ofperspectives relevant to both students and practitioners. Current and emerging developments in public health are covered extensively, to prepare students to challenge conventions and work for change within the health sector.

Author Biography

Helen Keleher is the Head of the Department of Health Science at Monash University.

Colin MacDougall is the Deputy Head (Research) for the Department of Public Health at Flinders University.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Determinants Thinking1. Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall: Understanding health2. Helen Keleher: Public health and primary health care3. Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall: Understanding the determinants of health4. Jan Garrard: Evidence and public health: data, discourses and debates5. Judith Raftery: Critical perspectives on public health historyPart 2: Understanding Social Determinants of Health and Well-being6. Bill Genat and Kyllie Cripps: Understanding the determinants of Aboriginal health7. Shane Houston: Cultural security as a determinant of Aboriginal health8. Rosemary Nicholson and Peter Stephenson: Natural environments as determinants of health9. Gilbert Blandin de Chalain and Peter Stephenson: The built environment as a determinant of health10. Mardie Townsend and Matthew Ebden: Natural environments11. Helen Keleher: Social exclusion12. Cathy Vaughan: Vulnerability and globalisation13. Belinda Lewis and Jeff Lewis: Conflict, insecurity and disasters14. Anthony LaMontagne and Tessa Keegel: The work environment as a determinant of health15. Jill Blackmore and Annelies Kamp: Education as a determinant of health and well-being16. Craig Fry and Paul Dietze: Alcohol and drugs: determinants and interventions17. Boyd Swinburn, Kate Carey and David Cameron-Smith: Biological determinants of health18. Paul Ward: Equity of access to health care servicesPart 3: Determinants of Health and Well-being Across the Life-course19. Colin MacDougall: Understanding twenty-first-century childhood20. Johanna Wyn: Social determinants of young people's health in a risk society21. Michael Bentley: Men and health: a determinants approach22. Helen Keleher: Determinants of women's health and well-being23. Lyn Walker, Michael Flood and Kim Webster: Violence against women: a key determinant of health and well-being24. Helen Keleher and Nerida Joss: Determinants of healthy ageingGlossaryBibliographyIndex