Ebook: The new public health

Machine generated contents note: 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 -- Health in cultural and economic contexts -- Spiritual 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 -- 3. The New Public Health Evolves -- Introduction.;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.