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The People's Health Public Health in Australia, 1950 to the Present
[Part of two volume set]
Milton J. Lewis
Book Code: GM2045
ISBN: 0-313-32045-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32045-3
376 pages, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2003
List Price: $86.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Medical Studies
Series Number: 49
Reviews:
  • [A] major work.
    —Medical History     January 2005
  • The value of this first publication to public health specialists in the USA will be self-evident. However this book provides an excellent frame of reference for colleagues all around the world. Many of the issues addressed and the recommendations made will be equally applicable, with some variation in almost any country in the world. If anyone is about to start the process of reviewing the structure of their public health system, this book will be a valuable resource....[i]t will serve as an excellent reference for scholars interested in a wider international frame of reference for public health policy and practice, as well as appealing to students of specifically Australian events.
    —Journal of Royal Society for Promotion of Health     January 2004
Description: This second volume on the history of public health in Australia completes the story of the conception and evolution of medicine in the island nation. Whereas volume one details the period from 1788 when Europeans first settled on the east coast of the island until just after World War II, this book carries the story to the end of the twentieth century with the notion of a social view of public health. While health care in the first era was characterized by a focus on disease and mortality patterns very much shaped by communicable diseases, the second period was marked by the need to respond to chronic, "degenerative" diseases of an aging population, along with "emerging" infections, in particular HIV/AIDS. Recent years have also seen the emergence of new concerns such as genetically-modified foods and the role of public health in response to bioterrorism. Themes developed in volume one continue to play a major role in recent health care policy, in particular comparisons with public health in the United Kingdom and the United States. The problematic relationship between public health and clinical medicine and the small resources flowing to public health in comparison to those allocated to curative and rehabilitative services continue to be areas of concern. Many politicians and citizens have yet to come to terms fully with the changes required by thinking of health advancement in terms of the interaction of the biological and social nature of humankind.
Table of Contents:
  • Towards a Social Conception of Health
  • The Health Problems of Affluence
  • The Concept of Community Health
  • The New Public Health: Promise and Performance
  • Public Health and Social Justice
  • At the Beginning of the New Millennium, Whither Public Health?
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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