Community health and wellness - Anne McMurray

Community Health and Wellness 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 acutely 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.

With an increased focus on community assessment and working with groups, the text introduces the SDH Assessment Circle-a new model for community assessment as a tool for working with communities to promote health and wellbeing.

An engaging new case study running through all chapters provides an opportunity for students to relate context to practice and encourages discussion of the social determinants of health (SDH). The Mason family in Australia and the Smiths in New Zealand, both fly-in fly-out (FIFO) families, feature in each chapter to highlight a range of PHC issues and the SDH influencing their home lives, their respective communities and the challenges they face.

• 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.

• Two new chapters:

• Chapter 3 Assessing the Community
• Chapter 6 Working in groups

• The SDH Assessment Circle - a new model for community assessment
• Stronger emphasis on working with migrant and refugee families
• A new continuous case study - the Mason and Smith families; both fly-in fly-out (FIFO) families.