Health, Social Change and Communities

by Liamputtong, Pranee; Gardner, Heather

• ISBN13: 9780195515466
• ISBN10: 0195515463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Health, Social Change and Communities is an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of the effects that political and economic changes have had on health and social policy in Australia. Written by Australia's foremost academics and researchers of policy and social reform, the book focuses on a range of health and social issues found within diverse communities. This book is unique in providing a reformist approach to the policies concerning community groups. Its extensive coverage of new and controversial issues is examined in relation to the impact that changes to government health policy have on specific local communities. Health, Social Change and Community is aimed at students and practitioners working within the field of communit health. With its emphasis on diversity in communities, the book aims to provide insights be enlighten and influence our thinking about health and social policy. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Preface	viii
Acknowledgments	xii
Contributors	xiii
Part 1: Health and Social Change
The Health System, Participation, and Community Groups	3	(19)
Pranee Liamputtong
Heather Gardner
Michael McGartland
Consumers and Health Policy Reform	22	(16)
Meredith Carter
Debra O'Connor
Incorporating Voices from the Community into Policy	38	(16)
Linda Hancock
Donna Morabito
Altruism or Entrepreneurialism: Competing Ideologies in the Voluntary Sector	54	(20)
Eli Ristevski
Heather Gardner
Theonie Tacticos
Unemployment and Individualism: Community and Health in Australian Unemployment Policy	74	(14)
Douglas Ezzy
Public Health Challenges in the Care of the Dying	88	(12)
Allan Kellehear
Policy Reform in the Psychiatric Sector: Service Responses after Deinstitutionalisation	100	(19)
Bill Healy
Part 2: Communities
Women and Health: An Ongoing Agenda	119	(22)
Pranee Liamputtong
Judith Dwyer
Promoting Men's Health: From Pathologies to Partnerships	141	(22)
Rick Hayes
The Health of Children	163	(19)
Janet Taylor
Healthy Ageing: A New Focus on Older People's Health and Well-being	182	(24)
Colette Browning
Hal Kendig
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Social Aspects and the Role of Community Groups	206	(18)
Chris L. Peterson
Aboriginal Australians, Governments, and Participation in Health Systems	224	(17)
Ian Anderson
`Our Shame, Blacks Live Poor, Die Young': Indigenous Health Practice and Ethical Possibilities for Reform	241	(16)
Sandy Toussaint
Living in a Different Place at a Different Time: Health Policy and Australian Ethnic Communities	257	(25)
Pranee Liamputtong
Vivian Lin
Prue Bagley
Queering Health: The Health of Young Same-Sex-Attracted Men and Women	282	(24)
Damien Ridge
Alana Hulme
David Peasley
Drugs: A Contested Policy Area	306	(22)
Margaret Hamilton
Suicidality in the Community	328	(13)
Jane Pirkis
Robert Goldney
Philip Burgess
Index	341