Community health and wellness : primary health care in practice / Anne McMurray, Jill Clendon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Working With Communities : -- 1. Creating and Maintaining a Healthy Community -- 2. Communities of Place -- 3. Assessing the Community -- 4. Planning and Promoting Community Health: Principles and practices -- 5. Nursing Roles -- 6. Working with Groups -- Section 2. Sustainable Health For Family And Individuals : -- 7. Healthy families -- 8. Healthy children -- 9. Healthy adolescents -- 10. Healthy adults -- 11. Healthy ageing -- Section 3. Inclusive Communities And Societies : -- 12. Inclusive communities: Gender, culture and power -- 13. Cultural Inclusiveness: safe cultures, healthy Indigenous people -- 14. Inclusive policies, equitable health care systems -- 15. Building the evidence base: Research to practice.

"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."--Publisher's website.