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• Title:Health, social change & communities / edited by Pranee Liamputtong & Heather Gardner.
  
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• Variant Title:Health, social change, and communities
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Liamputtong, Pranee, 1955-
  Gardner, Heather.
  
• Published/Created:Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA546.KA8 H434 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Social medicine--Australia.
  Public health--Australia.
  Community health services--Australia.
  
• Medical Subjects: Community Health Services--Australia.
  Community Health Planning--Australia.
  Health Policy--Australia.
  Health Promotion--Australia.
  Social Change--Australia.
  
• Description:xix, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:"Health, Social Change & 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 Australias̕ 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." -- BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0195515463
  
• Contents:1. Health System, Participation, and Community Groups / Pranee Liamputtong, Heather Gardner and Michael McGartland
  2. Consumers and Health Policy Reform / Meredith Carter and Debra O'Connor
  3. Incorporating Voices from the Community into Policy / Linda Hancock and Donna Morabito
  4. Altruism or Entrepreneurialism: Competing Ideologies in the Voluntary Sector / Eli Ristevski, Heather Gardner and Theonie Tacticos
  5. Unemployment and Individualism: Community and Health in Australian Unemployment Policy / Douglas Ezzy
  6. Public Health Challenges in the Care of the Dying / Allan Kellehear
  7. Policy Reform in the Psychiatric Sector: Service Responses after Deinstitutionalisation / Bill Healy
  8. Women and Health: An Ongoing Agenda / Pranee Liamputtong and Judith Dwyer
  9. Promoting Men's Health: From Pathologies to Partnerships / Rick Hayes
  10. Health of Children / Janet Taylor
  11. Healthy Ageing: A New Focus on Older People's Health and Well-being / Colette Browning and Hal Kendig
  12. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Social Aspects and the Role of Community Groups / Chris L. Peterson
  13. Aboriginal Australians, Governments, and Participation in Health Systems / Ian Anderson
  14. 'Our Shame, Blacks Live Poor, Die Young': Indigenous Health Practice and Ethical Possibilities for Reform / Sandy Toussaint
  15. Living in a Different Place at a Different Time: Health Policy and Australian Ethnic Communities / Pranee Liamputtong, Vivian Lin and Prue Bagley
  16. Queering Health: The Health of Young Same-Sex-Attracted Men and Women / Damien Ridge, Alana Hulme and David Peasley
  17. Drugs: A Contested Policy Area / Margaret Hamilton
  18. Suicidality in the Community / Jane Pirkis, Robert Goldney and Philip Burgess.